Sentence examples for merely escalated from inspiring English sources

The truth is it merely escalated the problems created by its verdict.

The publication has not spurred a healthy debate; it has merely escalated a shouting match, and given the N.R.A. a new rallying cry.

Coercion appears very effective as the person with the power (the teacher) merely escalates the quantity or quality of the consequences (punishments) until the less powerful (student) completes a task or behaves in the manner you want.

"Then it just escalated and escalated".

The madness only escalated.

Everything had just escalated and escalated.

Then it just escalated".

The situation only escalated.

"They just escalate".

Do the Braves have any business punishing a player whose on-field antics and volatile behavior have been tolerated by teammates and management until now, merely for escalating his rhetoric?

What was merely a recession escalated into the Great Recession.