Sentence examples for a sudden escalation from inspiring English sources

Just then there is a sudden escalation of noise as TruthTeller returns, grumbling about the weight of the machine-gun and bazooka parts.

There has been a sudden escalation in the number of people who take the Municipal Art Society's free weekly hour-long lunchtime walking tours.

Israeli politicians and pundits labeled the Oct. 3 burning of a mosque in Tuba Zangaria, an Arab community in northern Israel, and the subsequent desecration of Arab graves in Jaffa as a sudden escalation.

In a sudden escalation of longstanding tensions this week, each side has bitterly accused the other of violating the de facto border in Kashmir, which both sides claim in its entirety.

The other trigger would be a sudden escalation in refugee flows and that could occur if we see a reintensification of fighting in the south... if that goes back up and the Jordanians find they are simply unable to handle that number of refugees, that's when the contingency plans for a buffer zone may kick in.

If the protests continue to stir more and more Israelis out of their political despondency, Mr. Netanyahu still holds two possible trump cards: a sudden breakthrough in the negotiations to free the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held captive in Gaza, or a sudden escalation of armed conflict.

5. If, in the meantime, oil does rise to $75/barrel in a year or two, the slack now available to producers will delay any sudden escalation, for OPEC can increase production as necessary.

Police earlier confirmed killing 15 people in a series of drug raids across the country over the past week, which Amnesty International described as a sharp and sudden escalation in the long-standing problem of questionable deaths by Filipino security forces.

As a result of the sudden escalation, the Israeli authorities called for the cancellation of all outdoor public activities in southern Israel that were scheduled for Saturday.

TRIPOLI, Libya — In a sudden, sharp escalation of NATO's air campaign over Libya, warplanes dropped more than 80 bombs on targets in Tripoli in an assault that began Tuesday morning and continued into the predawn hours of Wednesday, obliterating large areas of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya command compound and what NATO identified as other military targets around the capital.

The sudden escalation of violence broke out early last week after a government clampdown on a sit-in camp in Ramadi demanding more civil rights for the country's Sunni minority.