Sentence examples for escalating exchange from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the participant is to imagine having a girlfriend, and to picture her in his mind, and also to imagine a group of people staring him down, and being engaged in a rapidly escalating exchange with 'Joe'.

While he saved his richest plaudits, and most joyful a cappella singing, for his thanks to God, he introduced his guests graciously and traded verses with them in escalating exchanges.

Members of parliament will grill the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, on Tuesday about his plans to modernise governance at the central bank in light of the escalating foreign exchange scandal.

But Mr. Ma said the bill would "further escalate the exchange rate issue by adopting protectionist measures with an excuse of 'currency imbalance.' " While the specter of the Senate bill may have vexed Chinese officials, its prospects for passage on Capitol Hill seemed dim.

Frost, the suit says, escalated the exchange at every stage and ultimately used excessive force. .

A nuclear-threat assessment published last January by the Secretary of Defense bleakly concluded, "Given the long-standing hostility between the two countries, even a minor conflict runs the risk of escalating into an exchange of missiles with nuclear warheads".

Or, to be more precise, to be able to keep the fight going indefinitely while preventing it from escalating into an exchange of nuclear weapons.

While the Dotard in the United States and the Rocket Man in North Korea exchange escalating nuclear threats, many are wondering whether the criticisms of former president Barack Obama's controversial deal with Iran were misguided.

Protests in Sunni neighborhoods on Saturday escalated into exchanges of machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades, leaving at least eight people dead, said Tarek Chindob, the lawyer for Mr. Mawlawi, confirming Lebanese press reports.

Safe to say, diplomatic protocols exist for a reason: i.e. to mitigate the risk of international communication exchanges escalating from disagreement into out-and-out conflict.

And the hostility between Iran and (already nuclear-armed) Israel is so visceral that I would worry about some crisis between them escalating to a nuclear exchange.