If, on the other hand, its ultimate goal was timed with the Baghdad attacks in order to escalate rising Shiite-Sunni tensions in the region, all bets are off as to what happens next.
Health insurance, by its very existence, helps to escalate rising medical care costs; for example, insured medical losses tend to run higher than noninsured losses because physicians often charge according to "ability to pay," and insurance increases this ability.
"Our priority remains on escalating the rise of young players in our squad.
40 Obesity is now the most common clinical risk factor in obstetric practice and is escalating with the rise in obese teenagers reaching reproductive age.
Don't over-pitch them at the outset; you need to escalate throughout ("rising action") without falling into repetitive, wearying, melodramatic action.
Back when he was running Madison Square Garden for the Dolan family, Dave Checketts would justify the ever-escalating rise in Knicks and Rangers ticket prices by saying, in effect, what can we do, this is what the market will bear.
In particular, fears of escalating prices and rising interest rates are rattling the equities markets and laying waste the fixed-income markets.
They paid 18 cents a share for a stake in a company that was rapidly escalating in value, rising to more than 90 cents as the company promoted an aggressive plan to sell to a major pharmaceutical company.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will outline a set of policies Tuesday she says will help make prescription drugs more affordable as escalating prices cause rising anxiety among American consumers.
The number of escalating gestures did not rise significantly as the size of the group increased, contrary to what the bystander effect would predict.
