Sentence examples for clashes escalate from inspiring English sources

A senior UN human rights official has warned that full-scale war between north and south Sudan will break out if border clashes escalate.

Months of turmoil *March 17: Five years after Kurmanbek Bakiyev became president, thousands of protesters threaten to oust him *April 6: Protesters take a government building in the town of Talas, and hold local governor hostage *April 7: Bakiyev orders a state of emergency as clashes escalate.

As protests, demonstrations and clashes escalate across the world, global discontent seems to be reaching levels not seen since the fallout of the 2008-2009 financial meltdown.

Border clashes escalated in late March, killing hundreds, and strategic oil fields have switched hands.

As the clashes escalated, the army closed Palestinian shops in H2 and sealed the main road connecting the two parts of Hebron with concrete blocks.

Last night's clashes escalated after a small group of protesters tried to break into the government headquarters, which was barricaded from the inside.

Following several days of dawn police raids on the protesters seeking to occupy Gezi park on Taksim Square in Istanbul city centre, the clashes escalated violently, leaving more than 100 people injured, several of them seriously.

In the West Bank town of Ramallah, clashes escalated after it was announced that a Palestinian man who was shot in the head by Israeli troops on Friday had died.

When the uprising began, he said, he took part in marches and demonstrations, but as street clashes escalated and one friend after another was killed by Israeli gunfire, he became convinced that their deaths could be met only with similar deadly violence.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fierce clashes escalated in Beirut on Thursday between Sunni supporters of the government and loyalists of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, after Hezbollah's leader said the government had declared war by threatening to shut down the group's private telephone network.

Scores of people have died and hundreds fled as clashes escalated in Sanaa.