The symptoms are general, confusing, escalate slowly over years and can be easily misinterpreted.
Fighting between the Chechen government and the opposition escalated slowly throughout the fall, then intensified sharply at the end of November.
Many older patients are sensitive to new medications due to physiologic differences so special care should be taken to initiate at the lowest dose and escalate slowly to reduce adverse effects.
By Friday, after slowly escalating the fight all week, Cruz had finally had enough of Trump's menacing attacks.
Kaiser Hamidul Haq, an English professor at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, says: "It seems that they [extremists] are slowly escalating [their attacks].
With its nervous characters trying to figure out how not to look like terrorists, "Bus" features a slowly escalating absurdity that recalls the humor of a Joe Orton comedy.
Worried about widening the war, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara mandated a strategy of slowly escalating air attacks, but eventually allowed strikes at all but a few targets.
That spring, the American National Security Agency was monitoring what seemed to be yet another slowly escalating series of Pakistani and Indian attacks, when intercepts revealed that the Pakistani leadership had "panicked," as a senior intelligence official put it, at the prospect of a preëmptive Indian strike and had readied its small arsenal of nuclear warheads.
Last year, while many portable MP3 players were waging a war of slowly escalating storage capacity -- 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB -- Creative Technology flew overhead and dropped the big one: the Nomad Jukebox with six gigabytes of storage, enough for 100 hours of MP3's, the equivalent of about 150 CD's.
According to several Special Forces soldiers and Kurdish officials, what had been expected to be a slowly escalating battle accelerated wildly when most of the Iraqi soldiers and government loyalists slipped away in the morning, moving south, it seemed, toward Tikrit, the region of Saddam Hussein's birth.
