Sentence examples for familiar escalation from inspiring English sources

The American response so far has mostly involved a familiar escalation of force, characterized by the addition of law enforcement and military equipment and personnel to help governments too weak to combat trafficking on their own.

Responding in part to that – and more widely to an intensification of the blockade in Gaza following Egyptian efforts to close the smuggling tunnels into the coastal enclave – Israel and the militant factions in Gaza slipped into a familiar escalation of rocket fire out of Gaza and Israeli strikes that lead quickly to the third Gaza conflict since 2008 – dubbed by Israel Operation Protective Edge.

It shows Ms Reza's gift for farcical escalation, familiar to fans of her hugely successful plays, "Art" and "God of Carnage".

Amarnath Amarasingam, a noted terrorism expert and senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, says the type of collaboration encouraged by Spear and The Base is a familiar sign of escalation among militant organizations.

Nine years on in Afghanistan the latest commander of the Nato forces is this week asking for 20,000 more US troops – nine years on, and escalation: sound familiar?

In response, Pyongyang has drawn on the tool most familiar to it: fiery threats of escalation.

Although some legislators were troubled by aspects of the Finding, and "there was a significant amount of high-level discussion" about it, according to the source familiar with it, the funding for the escalation was approved.

On Fridays, the holy day of Islam, prayers are often a time of heightened sensitivity - especially since this latest escalation of tension surrounds the familiar dispute about the rights to worship at a site around the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City sacred in both Islam and Judaism.

And the climactic escalation of Beyond's final scenes will be familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of Brian Yuzna's films, the works of HP Lovecraft, or derivative cautionary science fiction in general.

An avowedly partisan collection of sources illustrating the escalation of the 'Good War', this is not the familiar account taught in schools and endlessly repeated on television - this truly is 'in colour'.

The proposals cover familiar ground, from disarmament and new restrictions on guns and accessories to escalation and expanded rights.