Sentence examples for a steep escalation from inspiring English sources

One thing that would sour them on Mr. Obama, they said, would be a steep escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

Many low-income people, who are least able to afford a steep escalation in the cost of cooling their homes or filling their cars, would receive only modest amounts of money from the tax cut Mr. Bush has proposed.

Last week there were four shootings in seven days, part of a steep escalation of gun crime that has blindsided the authorities and left communities nervously awaiting the next echo of a gunshot.

Nurco, Hanlon, Kinlock, and Duszynski (1988), in their study of addicted males, found that individuals who did not have a criminal history before their addiction emerged had a steeper escalation in their criminal behavior during their addiction periods than those who already had a criminal history before they became addicted.

The report, approved by 16 intelligence agencies, concluded that a previously steep escalation in violence had been checked.

So, because of the steep escalation in prices, many of the homes on the million-dollar category are nothing to brag about.

The steep escalation of rates of violence has been checked for now, and overall attack levels across Iraq have fallen during seven of the last nine weeks.

In the near four years of President Obama's administration virtually nothing has been done to slow or reverse the steep escalation of oil, and in turn gasoline prices.

The announcement of impending martial law marked the steepest escalation yet in the political battle between Egypt's new Islamist leaders and their secular opponents over the draft constitution.

Labour's move comes as a new breakdown of police figures reveals an escalation in hate crimes since 2012, with a steep rise in abuse reported by the transgender community alongside the well-documented rises in antisemitism and Islamophobia.

It has been a steep learning curve.