"The barricades are up," he wrote, "oil supplies running out, trains and planes on a skeleton schedule and the protests are still escalating.
This is disheartening: Even with just 10 total patients treated for Ebola in this country and no transmission from a medical aid worker to another person on US soil, politicians are still escalating anxieties and giving the public permission to discriminate, stigmatize and even hate aid workers like me.
An unprecedented — and still escalating — flood this week quickly overwhelmed those manmade defenses along the Souris, forcing a series of evacuations that displaced more than a quarter of the city's population.
With public fear of anthrax still escalating, the federal government is ramping up its efforts to prepare for another possible bioterrorism threat -- smallpox.
DealBook » Still No Decision on Deal for Knight Capital | The board of the Knight Capital Group "ended a day-long meeting Monday without a decision on the company's future, amid expectations that a bidding war between the brokerage's two suitors could still escalate, according to people involved in the talks," The Wall Street Journal reports.
Even if you set aside the unlikely possibility of an abrupt Pearl Harbor style surprise attack from either side, tensions could still escalate to the point where shots get fired.
An engaging response can still escalate controlling behaviour.
Sports franchises demand enormous fees for carrying broadcasts and contracts still escalate.
This first urban death, combined with ongoing violence in the northeastern outbreak area in DRC and some community resistance, is worrying experts that the slowing outbreak could still escalate.
In that regard, the Administration's handling of the still-unclosed prison at Guantánamo and a still-escalating war in Afghanistan has not been so encouraging.
Still, the escalating jihadi challenge may help bridge the gap.
