Once, when a group of people, coffees in hand, refused to move off his building's stoop, the ensuing standoff nearly escalated into a fistfight.
A mutiny in May by soldiers who had not been paid in more than a year nearly escalated into an attempted coup.
In one week in May this season, he had heated arguments with the team's pitching and bullpen coaches, Dan Warthen and Randy Niemann, with the latter nearly escalating into a brawl before other Mets relievers intervened.
Nearly half the travel workers said they had seen a situation where discourteous behavior had almost escalated into physical confrontation.
And this means prices for Obamacare Exchange policies should not escalate nearly as much.
Over the past three years, UNICEF's rent has nearly doubled, and escalating costs have put a strain on resources, in turn making it more difficult to meet the needs of the population.
It follows nearly 40 years of escalating persecution in Pakistan against Ahmadi Muslims by both governmental and vigilante means.
Sure enough, the Red Sox drafted Alvarez in the 14th round two weeks later, making him bonus offers that escalated to nearly a million dollars.
In 1980 California was just coming off nearly three decades of escalating homicide rates fueled by the nearly complete shut down of the state's mental hospital system.
WASHINGTON — President Bashar al-Assad's forces have resorted to firing ballistic missiles at rebel fighters inside Syria, Obama administration officials said Wednesday, escalating a nearly two-year-old civil war as the government struggles to slow the momentum of a gaining insurgency.
NEWS President Bashar al-Assad's forces have resorted to firing ballistic missiles at rebel fighters inside Syria, Obama administration officials said Wednesday, escalating a nearly two-year-old civil war as the government struggles to slow the momentum of a gaining insurgency.
