Recruitment of the Chinese began in 1916 as ever escalating casualties meant labourers became disastrously scarce.
And what causes will go without as they play the ever escalating, two-handed game of political influence?
Each side has its advocates in the daily fray, leveling ever escalating accusations of election theft and conflict of interest.
Will the next 12 months see climate change, the issue, continue to slide into obscurity as climate change, the reality, kills at an ever escalating rate?
Ever escalating ticket prices linked with a lack of development will only fuel the belief that the money is going straight into the hands of bosses and shareholders.
When the real estate market was rising, appraisals often came in higher than sales prices, as appraisers struggled to keep up with ever escalating prices.
The Victorians have become known for their modesty; in fact, we can't know that, as they were heavily censored by ever escalating speech laws.
This began an ever escalating round of denunciations that blamed Stuart for depriving Lee of his "eyes and ears," and allowing Lee to stumble without warning into a Union trap at Gettysburg.
The Pentagon, he said, needs a strategy "that says to the attacker, 'If you do this, the price to you is going to go up, and it's going to ever escalate.' " He added that right now "we're on a path that is too predictable — it's purely defensive.
That was when the European Union, then struggling to contain a debt crisis in Greece, effectively planted a time bomb that would blow a big hole in Cyprus's banking system — and set off a chain reaction of unintended and ever escalating ugly consequences.
