It escalated with verbal attacks this year on what he called Wall Street's "obscene bonuses".
It escalated with a torrent of questions about Mr. Casey's business dealings, involving lawsuits filed by disgruntled investors and accusations that he had been less than forthcoming about his finances during his confirmation hearings.
It escalated with small acts of violence and then exploded.
It escalated with a police raid to Koza İpek headquarters in July, followed by two mob attacks on the Hürriyet daily building, the confiscation of Nokta weekly for its cover depicting a smiling Erdoğan taking a selfie in front of the coffins of soldiers killed in the conflict with the Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK) and seven critical TV channels taken out of a digital platform and satellite.
For example, does it escalate with disease progression - that is, is the requirement for Aβ reduction lower if intervention is earlier (predementia/presymptomatic), and greater if intervention is later in disease (mild to moderate)?
Children's yearning for independence begins in toddlerhood: "I can do it myself!" It escalates through childhood, accelerates with the driver's license, and crescendos, with pomp and circumstance, at high school graduation.
There is never a final payment made to terrorists; it merely escalates with every perceived success they achieve.
Barnesandnoble.com began selling videotapes and digital video discs in the quarter, and is also offering electronic books and Internet access to radio stations as it escalates competition with Amazon.com, the top Internet bookseller.
The Obama administration should keep this in mind as it escalates its war of words with the court.
It escalated in 2001 with a threat to replace the authority's police force with city officers ("Dead wrong," huffs Mr. Eisenberg) and a pillorying of snow removal at Kennedy.
It escalated from there, with Trump Jr. and Acosta trading a series of online jabs that included the diminutive nickname "Jimbo" and at least two deployments of the dismissive hashtag #ByeBye, as might be expected of the president's eldest son and CNN's chief White House correspondent in 2019.
