Sentence examples similar to beginning of escalation from inspiring English sources

The killings of the churchwomen came at the beginning of an escalation in El Salvador's civil war, which also claimed the lives of Archbishop Oscar Romero and six Jesuits slain at the University of Central America.

(Today, he says that what happened in 1996 was "the beginning of a horrifying escalation of performers' salaries").

This marked the beginning of a dramatic escalation of French military intervention in the Syrian Civil War.

They can be against it because it sounds like a very bad idea — impractical, ill thought out, militarily puzzling, possibly the beginning of a disastrous escalation.

"Since the beginning of this wave of escalation [from last Octoberthere have] been many reports of disproportionate use of force vis-a-vis suspected assailants, none seriously investigated and of those none has seen charges opened".

The feared phase of escalation began.

As in other conflicts, each side may at first have had a limit as to how far it would go, but as the other side reacted, a vicious circle of escalation began, with each side reacting to the other.

The process of escalation had begun.

1. Recent record high oil prices may be just the beginning of never-ending price escalations as increasing demand for oil (China and India are growing at about 10% per year) collides with global oil production that has been pretty much flat for the past three years, and shows all the warning signs of impending decline (Peak Oil). 2.

So begins the escalation of chief executive pay.

That change began an escalation of tactics, in which both delays and attempts at circumventing delays have become more common, with one often leading to more of another.