Sentence examples for stark escalation from inspiring English sources

The exchanges reflected a stark escalation in rhetoric in recent weeks as the uneasy truce on terrorism that existed at the beginning of the Obama presidency evaporated.

Few battlefields have seen as stark an escalation under Trump as Somalia, where the U.S. has focused primarily on striking al Qaeda offshoot al-Shabaab, and more recently ISIS.

If the UN troops are no longer able to carry out humanitarian aid, whether backed by extra forces or not, the alternatives would then be stark - either incremental escalation with our forces sucked into becoming a participant in this war or withdrawal of our troops.

Automatic escalation.

Avoid escalation.

New escalation?

See escalation.

Stark shadows.