Sentence examples for escalate about from inspiring English sources

The last one ended just as violence in the Middle East began to escalate about three weeks ago.

The potential U-turn comes as concerns escalate about how the world will continue to feed itself against a backdrop of rapidly inflating food prices and a soaring population.

Efforts to curtail junk food advertisements started escalating about three years ago, as evidence of the problem of child obesity started mounting.

But her purchases escalated about 13 years ago when her son, Barry Baum, went off to the University of Wisconsin and left behind some space that begged to be colonized.

On Sunday, July 20, a Southwest Airlines Employee and Customer were having a conversation that escalated about the airline's family boarding procedures.

Initially in 2008, the total program cost with long-term spare parts was expected to cost 3,800 Crore (US $950 Million), but the construction costs escalated about 225%, and by 2011, cost of the program became 11,662 Crore (about US $2.6 Billion at that time), with each ship costing 3,900 Crore (about US $870 million at that time).

In August last year, as the rhetoric escalated about the propriety of constructing a Muslim cultural center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, New York cabbie Ahmed Sharif was stabbed in the throat by a passenger who confirmed his victim was Muslim before launching his attack.

Most of our rents escalate by about 2% per year.

But counselors there advised her to think about the possibility that the violence could escalate and about the safety of her children.

The honey pot grew, and the amount of money offered escalated from about $25,000 to about $50,000.

If we're scientists we escalate our conversation about the dangers of suppressing science education and denying climate change.