The phrase "an escalating debate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a discussion or argument that is becoming more intense or heated over time.
Example: "The issue of climate change has led to an escalating debate among scientists and policymakers."
Alternatives: "a growing debate" or "a heated discussion".
Mr. Bush's imminent decision on a border agency fed an escalating debate on Capitol Hill today about Mr. Ridge's accountability to Congress.
Over the past week there has been an escalating debate over the security measures that the Obama administration established for the American Embassy in Tripoli and its diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
The comments came as thousands of refugees from Syria arrived in Austria and Germany after an exhausting journey form Hungary, amid an escalating debate within the EU about how to handle the crisis.
WASHINGTON — The House will move ahead this week with a multibillion-dollar package to provide aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, but the legislation is already caught in an escalating debate over spending and deficits that foreshadows another ugly fight among Republicans.
His comments came amid an escalating debate over how long the United States will have to remain an occupying force in Iraq, and how it can retain control over Iraq's political and economic development while still winning international support for peacekeeping and rebuilding efforts.
This is why an escalating debate among psychiatrists about whether to drop narcissistic personality disorder from the field's diagnostic manual is such a juicy one.
To alleviate the escalating debate of authority, Pitar tries to implement a parliament to settle disputes peacefully.
CONCORD, N.H. — A committee of the New Hampshire State Senate plunged Wednesday into the escalating debate over same-sex marriage, hearing hours of discordant testimony on whether the state should become the fifth to allow it.
But in the escalating debate over the effectiveness of Texas higher education, some experts place a high value on measurements like graduation rates.
But the escalating debate makes us wonder, uneasily, whether doctors have been dispensing the pills far too cavalierly despite a dearth of evidence to support their value.
In recent weeks I have been following with interest the escalating debate about work-life balance and the varying positions of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and the academic Anne-Marie Slaughter, among others.
