Sentence examples for he escalates from inspiring English sources

In a conversation last week, the Connecticut senator was careful to avoid taking the president to task for pausing before he escalates.

The story traces the life of an impoverished young man, Tom Powers (played by Cagney), as he escalates from being a petty criminal to heading a murderous bootlegging ring.

As the experiment continues, he escalates the attempts to more "audacious" locations including directly outside a police station.

Moses not only rejects these offers, he escalates his demands by asking Pharaoh to provide the Israelites with additional animals (Ex. 10 25-26).

This formidable NATO capability threatens to deny him from achieving his military objectives and providing real, costly, and punishing retaliation in the event that he escalates the conflict and chooses the cross the nuclear threshold.

Then he escalates, asking rhetorically, "Are poor parents incapable of acting in their children's self-interest?" I've seen some choice opponents make this insulting suggestion but I have never seen charter advocates do it.

He escalated with a vengeance & lost the confidence of most of his country.

Instead, he escalated his rhetoric, in an attempt to overpower any ambiguities.

As President, Uribe negotiated with the paracos, even as he escalated the war against the FARC.

Kennedy might well have felt little of the insecurity that troubled Johnson's soul as he escalated the war.

Henry Kissinger was the master of realpolitik, conducting secret negotiations with China even as he escalated the war in Vietnam.