How it turns out may affect the course of the war, deciding whether it ends in a negotiated peace or grinds on with escalating severity.
External actors and international organizations should contribute to the efforts of supporters of domestic violence legislation in Pakistan by drawing attention to the increase in gender-based violence and escalating severity of crimes as well as explicitly raising the profile of the legislation, which has largely disappeared from the radar of international media.
Help-seeking was generally described as initiated either due to escalating severity or long duration of violence: Most of them who come here will say that things have reached beyond endurance … they are fearing that they might die, meaning that she has lived with that for quite a long time but she was silent.
Even a brief survey of Sigma Alpha Epsilon's history reveals an escalating severity of punishment meted out when allegations of racist behavior emerge.
Little by little, the brand is escalating the severity of its insults, delving into more personal and controversial territory.
Language will "escalate in severity" - but will not contain threats or talk of consequences for the accused users.
It is too easy, especially as threat levels escalate in severity, to search for yet another product or service to save us and be distracted at the expense of sound business principles like clarity, alignment and efficiency.
This creates an "opportunity for cybercrime to escalate in severity" and "impact consumer confidence, further hindering the speed of the global recovery," DeWalt said in a December press release.
The rising fatality rates occurred against the backdrop of gunshot wounds that were also escalating in severity.
It may, in fact, escalate the severity of the violence if offenders believe they must be more heavily armed than the citizenry.
But as online attacks escalate in severity and visibility, high-profile targets whose digital presences often span the globe have struggled to spot and repair every vulnerability.
