Sentence examples for escalation there from inspiring English sources

"The Syrians must be careful about escalation there," Mr. Sneh said in Jerusalem.

A deadly exchange of rockets fired at southern Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza this week showed the risk of escalation there.

As the American public's focus shifted to the financial crisis -- and away from the war in Iraq and the perceived success of the troop escalation there -- he lost considerable ground, he said, adding that Americans "wanted a new stewardship".

"We are being asked to spend billions of dollars to buy ammunition and modernize our conventional weapons in order to raise the nuclear threshold in Europe and reduce the risk of nuclear escalation there," he said.

Mr. McCain's advisers say that he has evolved rather than switched positions in his 25-year career in the House and Senate and that he has been remarkably consistent on his support for the war in Iraq and the American troop escalation there.

Each time our commitment has expanded, he says, a new objective is stated; with each military escalation there is a corresponding escalation of purpose.

Magnus Ranstorp, a counter-terrorism expert at the Swedish National Defence College, noted that little information was available at present but said that if Uighurs were responsible, "it is without question an escalation … There hasn't been anything on this scale, as far as I have seen".

Dunford portrayed the artillery barrage as a trivial escalation, saying there was "no inconsistency between what this artillery unit did and what our aviation support does every day" in striking Isis from the air.

Thankfully, the escalation ended there, sparing us from a back-and-forth that was destined to end either with either someone waving copies of Mein Kampf in the air while making inappropriate comparisons or Olympia Snowe pantsing Carl Levin in the Ohio Clock Corridor.

"It's going to be a challenging market," said a third, and the escalation stopped there.

has been serving as his own Sec. of Defense for some time If McNamara has seriously opposed escalation then there can hardly be much doubt about it.