Sentence examples for escalation in which from inspiring English sources

Some Latin Americans fear an escalation, in which American troops could become involved in counter-insurgency or drug-bashing.

The strategists fashioned a policy known as escalation, in which the level of violence would be raised notch by notch until the foe would reach the breaking point.

A number of analysts said that Mr. Bush faced an immediate choice: raise the United States' profile in the conflict or let violence run further, risking an escalation in which new Palestinian suicide bombings are met with increasing Israeli tank fire and perhaps even the expulsion of Mr. Arafat and his Palestinian leadership from the West Bank.

This is McEwan's specialty: scenes of vertiginous escalation, in which events skid out of control, first gradually and then wildly, to a point that leaves his shell-shocked protagonists anxiously replaying those events in their heads to divine the wrong turn.

But that has spurred fears of "mission creep" on the part of other lawmakers, who fear that an attack would set off a chain of escalation in which Mr. Assad would retaliate and the United States and its allies would be forced to respond.

When he became president a year later he introduced a military doctrine of "de-escalation", in which the threat of a limited nuclear strike, probably though not necessarily against a military target, could be used to force an opponent back to the status quo ante.

We first expose zebrafish to ethanol chronically using a dose escalation procedure in which fish are kept in a final concentration of 0.5% vol/vol ethanol for 10 days while control fish receive identical dosing procedures but no ethanol.

The trial was a multi-centre, dose escalation study in which approximately 40 patients were to be enrolled.

This is an open-label, dose-escalation study in which a maximum of 24 subjects will be enrolled over three dose levels.

In a recent experiment, we assessed for the first time the efficacy of mucosal SIV transmission in a natural host by performing a dose-escalation study, in which AGMs and pigtailed macaques were intrarectally exposed to SIVagm (Pandrea, Unpublished data).

However, the only randomized dose-escalation trial, in which the boost dose was guided by conventional MRI, did not show any survival advantage of this treatment over the reference arm.