Sentence examples for combat escalation from inspiring English sources

There are things that organisations can do to combat escalation bias such as forcing managers to list the potential ways that things can go wrong but it is hard to eliminate such internal biases altogether.

But analysts said the bodies appearing outside Damascus in a town also filled with refugees — along with reports of renewed fighting in the capital and an escalation of combat in Aleppo, Syria's largest metropolis and commercial center — all suggested that the 17-month-old conflict was becoming increasingly intense and bitter, with more front lines and more bloodshed.

Americans watching the frightening escalation of combat across Iraq must be asking themselves where, exactly, are our Iraqi friends?

Santos beat right-wing challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga with about 50.9percentt support in a runoff vote after a bitter campaign that forced voters to choose between the incumbent's pursuit of negotiated peace or a likely escalation of combat under his rival.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A surprise assault by Syrian insurgents on a Republican Guard base in Damascus, just a few miles from the presidential palace, elicited a furious military response on Tuesday, with government forces shelling surrounding neighborhoods in an escalation that brought combat in the Syrian conflict close to the heart of the capital.

The month of August would witness an escalation in air combat as the Germans made a concentrated effort against Fighter Command.

The shortage of available combat brigades means that an escalation of between 30,000 and 40,000 troops is "not realistic," said Lawrence Korb, a former senior Pentagon official in the Reagan administration who now studies defense issues for the liberal Center for American Progress.

Responding to the Bush administration's failure in Afghanistan by initiating an escalation of US combat troops could be the next step into a quagmire that would be a catastrophe for the United States, Obama's presidency, and the region.

If correct, the story would represent an escalation in Canada's combat role in Iraq, effectively putting dreaded "boots on the ground".

Mecklin later wrote to USIS head Edward R. Murrow to insist that US troops would welcome combat in the case of a communist escalation.

The overarching fear is that such a provocative act might lead to swift escalation, unleashing the kind of nuclear combat that has long been mankind's worst nightmare.