It isn't at all clear that, at this point, escalating military intervention would actually save lives, or accomplish any humanitarian goals; even if it were possible to conceive of a kind of military intervention that would achieve those goals, it would be madness to entrust that kind of precision to our current administration.
At that point, escalating the arms race will no longer be favored by natural selection, and the evolutionary one-upping will stop.
It was at this point that he escalated his persecution of the Jews first to deportation to the East and then to mass murder and total extermination.
And at this point in the rapidly escalating story of social media's impact on democracy and society who, indeed, can blame them.
How did things escalate to this point?
I think it's escalating at this point.
The San Francisco Chronicle: "Sprewell's behavior escalated to this point because pro athletes so rarely face consequences commensurate with their indiscretions".
Thoriq Hamid, from the NGO Transparency Maldives, said his organisation was "extremely... concerned that the situation has escalated to this point".
"Even if we de-escalate at this point, we are sure to run into a snag six months down the road".
We must urgently explore why people with dementia's needs are escalating to this point and what can be done in the community to prevent crisis admissions among this vulnerable group.
So when I think somebody had seen that, it set them the wrong way, rather than thinking that as a story, which was being played out, they took it as sort of an offense against their women, and unfortunately it escalated to this point".
