Sentence examples for deliberately escalating from inspiring English sources

Mr Maliki is deliberately escalating the political crisis, which is seen by the Sunni minority as a bid by the Shia-dominated government to marginalise them.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, accused Israel of "deliberately escalating tensions in Jerusalem" by sending the police up to the mosque compound.

Niall Ferguson clearly sees that the obstacle to "winning" in Iraq is our reluctance to do what the British did in 1920: deliberately escalate attacks on civilians.

Far from soothing Beijing's fears following his protocol-shredding telephone call with Taiwan's president, he deliberately escalated the row.

We face a larger political establishment that has deliberately escalated xenophobia, frightening everyone so much that many Americans won't leave their country, nor rise to welcome those who knock on our door.

This activity is aggravating the Syrian and Iranian regimes and could lead one of these parties to miscalculate or deliberately escalate the conflict.

In Moscow the Kremlin accused Ukraine of illegally attempting to enter Russian waters, and of using "gangster tactics" to deliberately escalate the conflict.

"The impression is that some forces in Tbilisi, who oppose the normal and smooth transition of functions in the security zones in South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Russian peacekeepers to European Union observers, are deliberately trying to escalate tensions and seeking to provoke new hostilities through a series of terrorist acts," the statement read.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Dazhai experience was deliberately used to escalate political and class struggles.

The Cuba crisis involved two nuclear-armed powers deliberately taking steps that threatened war, steadily escalating until both found a formula that allowed them to back down.

And the deliberately jarring cinematography contributes to a mood of escalating menace.