Sentence examples for escalating control of from inspiring English sources

Though acting in response to a shared irritant — their government's escalating control of the Internet and other news sources — the bloggers Zhou Shuguang, and Zhang Shihe, 30 years apart in age, could not be more different.

10 P.M. (13) HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE (2013) In this "POV" presentation, Stephen Maing profiles two "citizen reporters" in China — Zhou Shuguang, a fame-hungry blogger, and Zhang Shihe, a retired businessman — across five years as they respond to their government's escalating control of the Internet and other news sources.

Indeed, as Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake has observed, opposition to this unprecedented mandate has served to unite "liberal progressives and conservative libertarians" against an escalating "corporatist control of government that politicians in both parties seem hell-bent on achieving".

The US and other countries evacuated their embassy staff in July, as fighting escalated for control of Tripoli.

The escalating war for control of what is left of Somalia, between the al-Shabab extremists and the African Union puppet "transitional federal government", offers little hope of peaceful resolution.

There has been a collision of troubles throughout the region: skimpy rainfall, disastrous harvests, soaring food prices, dying livestock, escalating violence, out-of-control inflation, and shrinking food aid because of many of these factors.

Subjectively, the person feels an escalating loss of control over the drug or the act and instead comes to feel increasingly controlled by it.

It is escalating out of control.

The violence in Gaza also added to the sense of events escalating out of control.

The whole of this is overlaid by a cultural divide which can lead to trivial run-ins escalating out of control.

The American ambassador here, Ralph L. Boyce, who has tried to keep the disagreement from escalating out of control, said today that the United States took the Indonesian requests seriously.