Sentence examples for clashes escalated from inspiring English sources

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.

Iraqi officials said those initial clashes escalated on Monday night when police attacked the al-Mukhayam mosque, a Mahdi Army stronghold in Karbala, and arrested around 20 fighters.

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.

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.

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.

But with clashes escalating in Mogadishu in 2009, she was unable to sell vegetables, and there was little money for the family.

Fears of an armed clash escalated when the Chinese army's own newspaper warned the military should not be treated as a paper tiger, says BBC Asia analyst Charles Scanlon.