Sentence examples for may well escalate from inspiring English sources

I wouldn't schedule any homecoming rallies just yet, not with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warning that the current horrific violence may well escalate as the elections approach.

Both leaders look like losers, at least for now, having blundered into a dispute which may well escalate into a constitutional crisis in the EU.

The resulting casualties and property losses may well escalate if resilience in these systems is not increased.

A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself.

Clashes between its supporters and police in Cairo and Alexandria may very well escalate and turn bloody.

Continue to mess up and they may very well escalate things all the way to the President.

That could well escalate into full-scale war.

During that time hunger could very well escalate.

North Korea cannot hope to win an all-out war, but it may well believe that by incrementally escalating its aggression it can bully the South into giving up — or at least sharing power in a confederation.

It is possible that patients with alcohol and other drug use disorders may well be patients who require escalating doses of sedatives and opioids and who would not have had their sedation interrupted in the ABC trial.

The target who has been shamed will feel escalating anger that may well reinforce the aggressors' perceptions that they're crazy, if not threatening and dangerous, but will actually make them somewhat crazy, threatening and dangerous -- which is hardly adaptive behavior for those who want to live and work safely and sanely.