Senator Carl Levin says 15,000 would be a better number, but that number wouldn't even reverse President Obama's first escalation of 17,000 troops, much less the 30,000 he sent in early 2010.
Of special significance was that the period concerned began in 2004, which coincided with the first escalation of violence along the US-Mexico border that ignited the current drugs war.
Among the cautionary voices are Michael V. Hayden, who as C.I.A. director in 2008 oversaw the first escalation of strikes in Pakistan; Stanley A. McChrystal, the retired general who commanded American forces in Afghanistan; James E. Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Dennis C. Blair, the former director of national intelligence.
Soon, Robert — along with a friend and a copy of the magazine Mountains — attempted his first official escalation, of the limestone cliffs at Château de Crussol, a twelfth-century castle in the Ardèche region.
If only a first level of escalation was required then only an automated audio instruction with emphasis was provided and the system would move on to the next prompt relevant to the learners' position in the task.
July 13 Israeli planes strike Beirut for the first time, an escalation of the crisis that prompts fears of war with Syria.
Just as Bloody Sunday marked the first significant escalation of the conflict in Northern Ireland, many believe the Omagh bombing in August 1998 made it inevitable that militant Republicans would have to engage in the peace process, with the two events effectively book ending 30 years of violence.
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The study consisted of an initial dose-escalation cohort, and a second expansion cohort of patients treated at MTD with additional correlative PK and PD studies.
The announcement today that the European Competition Commissioner has launched an official antitrust action against Google promises to be just the first step in a likely escalation of actions against Google and other big-data platforms increasingly dominating the online -- and, increasingly, the offline -- economic landscape.
