Not so safe Tragedy and farce Salve Salvini Europe's great alchemist ReprintsBut Mrs Merkel's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, appeared to contradict her when he warned against escalating the language used in the Western conflict with Russia.
SEOUL, South Korea — In a visit to the heavily armed border with the South, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered his troops on higher alert, escalating his militaristic language in spite of American calls to improve ties with the Seoul just a week after his country agreed to a nuclear freeze in return for badly needed food aid.
But in the Internet era, when plain language seems quickly to escalate to overheated language and name-calling, The Times is wise to exercise restraint.
If so, it was highly coordinated: Mr. Powell used it repeatedly in five separate talk-show appearances early that morning, and the language escalated all day.
Whatever transpired over the weekend, Mr. Putin has unquestionably escalated in his language toward Ukraine, choosing to use this episode — however real it was — for some larger aim.
"This comes from an entire culture that has been escalating toward an open and blunt language based on us being the chosen people who are allowed to do whatever we like".
As that language has escalated, they have abandoned the centre ground along with the pretence that they represent a libertarian ideal which most Americans basically agree with.
MOSCOW — What began as a legislative debate over Ukraine's official language policy escalated into a fist-swinging, clothes-ripping brawl between screaming, sweaty lawmakers that reverberated around the Internet on Friday, embellishing the country's standing in the pantheon of parliamentary punchfests that are captured on camera.
Page A4 UKRAINE PARLIAMENT BRAWL What began as a legislative debate over Ukraine's official language policy escalated into a literal brawl between lawmakers that reverberated around the Internet, embellishing the country's standing in the list of parliamentary punchfests that are captured on camera.
Language will "escalate in severity" - but will not contain threats or talk of consequences for the accused users.
