Sentence examples for as it escalated from inspiring English sources

Sri Lanka has been unable to contain its ethnic violence as it escalated from sporadic terrorism to mob violence, and finally to civil war.

As it escalated, Ja Rule taunted DMX about drug use; DMX questioned Ja Rule's sexual orientation.

The wall came without warning, rising suddenly to more than fifteen feet, and, along with cars and refrigerators and cattle and jewelry, claimed a death toll that defied comprehension as it escalated through the week.

Fryer said his interest in police shootings was motivated by outrage, but his inquiry was more specific: he wanted to see how racism contributed to police use of force, as it escalated.

The Obama administration should keep this in mind as it escalates its war of words with the court.

It does seem incredulous that Republican candidates, full of righteous pontifications have handed the largest, most important voting bloc to the Democrats as it escalates its on-going war on women.

The war, the paper began, "is becoming increasingly unpopular as it escalates — causing more American casualties, more fear of its growing into a wider war, more privation of the domestic sector, and more distress at the amount of suffering being visited on the noncombatants in Vietnam, South and North".

As it escalates, it is becoming a magnet for jihadists.

But as it escalates it is also becoming a magnet for jihadists from other countries who share this poisonous ideology.

But as it escalates, his hands rise to his cheeks as if he were supplying himself with panicky blinkers.

The hunt morphs into an all-out farce as it escalates to include bounty hunters, police and finally, the army.