It was during the Kennedy administration that the United States' involvement in Vietnam slowly escalated.
By Friday, after slowly escalating the fight all week, Cruz had finally had enough of Trump's menacing attacks.
Kaiser Hamidul Haq, an English professor at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, says: "It seems that they [extremists] are slowly escalating [their attacks].
With its nervous characters trying to figure out how not to look like terrorists, "Bus" features a slowly escalating absurdity that recalls the humor of a Joe Orton comedy.
Your rating increases with every nice thing you say and do, even if you're lying through your teeth, which makes the tension slowly escalate throughout.
He highlights the manner in which tensions between the crown and the political nation slowly escalated during Charles's reign (as a result of his attempts to grant religious toleration, unpopular wars against the Dutch and diplomatic alliances with France).
Worried about widening the war, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara mandated a strategy of slowly escalating air attacks, but eventually allowed strikes at all but a few targets.
While Obama withdrew the vast majority of US forces from Iraq in 2011 and claimed credit for it, he restarted and slowly escalated the US commitment to Iraq once the Islamic State conquered Mosul in June 2014.
That spring, the American National Security Agency was monitoring what seemed to be yet another slowly escalating series of Pakistani and Indian attacks, when intercepts revealed that the Pakistani leadership had "panicked," as a senior intelligence official put it, at the prospect of a preëmptive Indian strike and had readied its small arsenal of nuclear warheads.
While the use of the control structures means that the river has already hit its high marks passing Baton Rouge and New Orleans, those in the path of the Morganza spillway, opened last week, will see the waters slowly escalate, day by day, over the next week.
