Sentence examples for described escalating from inspiring English sources

Firas Kayal, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said many fleeing to the camps described escalating clashes in the mountains around Zintan and Nalut over the last two weeks, as Qaddafi forces fired artillery toward the towns and the rebels lashed back.

In one of the most telling passages of his book, Steele describes escalating violence between Iraqis and US troops in the city of Fallujah just weeks after the fall of Baghdad.

Recent reports describe escalating rates of disease caused by pneumococcal serotypes not included in currently licensed pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7PCV),[ 3, 4]including an increasing proportion of isolates having antibiotic resistance.

Zeid's comments come days after the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, described the escalating violence as chilling and the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, warned that the fighting risked becoming "more of an ethnic conflict than a political one".

Re "The Next Retirement Time Bomb" (Dec. 5), which described the escalating retiree health care costs facing public agencies: State and local governments need to consider nontraditional cost-containment measures.

Borodai's departure comes on the heels of a recent trip to Moscow, where he spent several days tending to "business related to the [Donetsk People's Republic.]" Speaking for the first time in his new role as prime minister of the self-declared republic, Zakharchenko described the escalating standoff with Ukraine's military by saying: "The situation is indeed difficult but not critical".

She describes in escalating steps the realisation that The Artist was becoming a phenomenon.

I have talked with teachers who describe an escalating culture of abuse in which they routinely witness girls being called slags, groped against their will and silenced in the classroom by sexist jibes.

In this passage, Angell describes the escalating tension of the late innings of the scoreless game, in which Darling was pitching a no-hitter: The two pitchers held us — each as intent and calm and purposeful as the other.

Sharma, an additional sessions judge, threw out the case against two men accused of organising betting on the 2007 match, but then launched into a diatribe on the prevalence of gambling in India, describing the escalating involvement of betting rings in cricket as alarming.

After capturing on tape what he described as an escalating series of threats to his job security if he did not fire Mr. Rosenberg -- along with increasingly explicit acknowledgements that Mr. Norcross was putting pressure on company officials to get it done -- the investigators decided that the best course of action would be for Mr. Gural to act as if he had finally caved in to the pressure.