Sentence examples for escalated efforts from inspiring English sources

How many teachers?" Oakland is the first city to file such a lawsuit amid escalated efforts by federal prosecutors to close the state's dispensaries.

WASHINGTON — In proposing a 5 percent surtax on incomes of more than $1 million a year to pay for job-creation measures sought by President Obama, Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday escalated efforts to strike a more populist tone and to draw Republicans into a confrontation over how much affluent Americans should pay to help others cope with a struggling economy.

Since the Supreme Court's ruling, states across the South have escalated efforts to change voting rules, including a new law in North Carolina that cuts down on early-voting hours and requires a photo ID to vote, but excludes eligible voters from using student ID cards or students' out-of-state driver's licenses.

The Obama administration on Friday escalated efforts to isolate Iran economically, blacklisting Iranian companies in the petrochemical industry for the first time and punishing five businesses in four other countries for conspiring to evade American sanctions aimed at restricting Iranian oil sales and air transportation.

A report from NBC Monday, citing three senior U.S. officials, said the North Korean regime has escalated efforts to conceal its nuclear activity, including covering up the entrance to at least one warhead storage facility.

The escalated efforts came weeks before the national elections, which were previously postponed due to security concerns and a plan to ramp up the assault against the insurgency before the vote.

In a statement, the coalition called his capture a "significant milestone" in its escalating efforts to damage the militant group.

The publishing industry is aggressively escalating efforts to protect digital media by enlisting the strength of the government.

The escalating efforts by more-liberal Catholics are provoking a vigorous backlash from some bishops and the right.

Antonio's story is emblematic of one nation's escalating efforts to repel unwanted migration, through an enforcement system partly run by private contractors.

The arrangement will provide an important new corridor for the United States military as it escalates efforts to win the eight-year war.