Dr. Fyfe said that in responding to potentially volatile situations, the police try to follow a theory known as a "scale of escalating force".
As the focus of where wealth is generated most quickly has shifted from Wall Street and Hollywood to Silicon Valley, the scale has escalated as well.
Be careful not to scare the children too much, start scaring them on a mild scale and escalate if needed.
Staining intensity was evaluated on an escalating scale ranging from 0 to 3, whereas the proportion of cells stained was according to the following scale: 0 is negative; 1: <10% stained; 2: 10–50% stained; 3: 50–80% stained; and 4: at least 80%.
But others said they feared that a series of experiments was unfolding along an escalating scale of infection.
Given the escalating scale of global inequality, the only surprise is that migration pressures are not greater still.
The outbreak might have been confined to Sierra Leone if the Department for International Development (DfID) had reacted more quickly to warnings from relief workers over the scale of the escalating crisis, it said.
What is new is the vastly escalating scale of the problem — and the precision with which some of the programs can scan computers for specific information, like corporate and personal data, to drain money from online bank accounts and stock brokerages.
The upside for authors is that royalties are paid on an escalating scale, so when a book succeeds, they stand to make more money; sometimes a great deal more, as for example in the case of the late, globally celebrated W. G. Sebald.
Since 1960 the federal government has set prices for milk on an escalating scale the farther away it is bottled from the upper Midwest, in order to assure adequate supplies.
