The move has escalated fears of a media clampdown ahead of elections on 1 November.
A series of earthquakes and small eruptions at Mount Unzen in the early 1990s escalated fears of another disaster, but that catastrophe never materialized.
The financial sector is frozen, the economy is slowing and the housing market is plagued by the triple whammy of rising foreclosures, a paralyzed securitization market and escalating fears about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which own or guarantee about $5 trillion in mortgages.
With the exception of Visa's highly anticipated offering, the public offering market has ground to a near halt this year because of tighter credit markets and escalating fears about a possible recession in the United States.
But, in a stylistic twist that is rare for this genre, the focus of the suspense remains locked on his victims, smart, articulate women who reveal their escalating fears in intimate first-person narratives that are insightful and also sad, because the lessons learned come too late.
The rouble suffered its biggest one-day decline since 1998 as oil prices continued to fall on Monday, escalating fears about the Russian economy.
A stronger yen also hangs over Honda, while surging raw materials prices and escalating fears over the health of the global economy weigh on the overall industry.
What is needed in an Ebola Czar is not only coordination, but also someone who can help calm the significant and escalating fears of the American public.
Thus, the "strong man" who would be ruler must spread falsehoods and escalate fears in order to justify usurping power, breaking all the rules and being above the law.
It's not hard to understand the reasons for all this reform agitation: dismal economic conditions; impossible pressures on the criminal justice system (especially our overpopulated prisons); escalating fears of drug cartel violence, and their insidious, expanding influence; and moral outrage at the damage the drug war has done our families and communities.
Billy melts down, but he melts slowly, his panic leaking through the cracks opened up by his escalating fear.
