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It barely came up at the meeting between Mr. Obama and Mr. Wen, Mr. Bader said, adding that despite the talk of America's obligation to back its military ally, "we have no expectation in any known universe that this would escalate to that kind of a level".

In early May 2015, analysts warned that Isis was setting up a Tunisian province – Wilayat al-Ifriqiya – noting that this would escalate the competition between Isis and AQ (whose regional affiliate, AQIM, was already active in Tunisia) and could lead to increased violence as each group sought to outdo the other.

In a worst-case contagion, Bank of America analysts wrote Friday, "One cannot rule out — as a tail-risk — a case where this would escalate into a major sovereign default problem, which would then resonate across global emerging markets in the same way that Argentina did in the early 2000s or Russia in the late 1990s".

"I had no idea how much this would escalate and evolve," Jackson explained to HuffPost in a previous interview.

This bill would escalate tensions between China and America, and risk sparking a trade war.

Amnesty said this rhetoric would escalate the crackdown against the protesters.

"The sustained level of leaking that had already taken place clearly suggested that this could go on, would escalate, and that more information of greater sensitivity could potentially leak," she said.

The shipping industry used to oppose this, fearing that armed guards would escalate violence.

This arrangement proved tenuous and would escalate into the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War), eventually bringing 500,000 American troops into South Vietnam.

IN just two weeks this month, as investors worried whether the violence in the Middle East would escalate into war, the stock market in Israel fell 16percentt.

In this case though, it did not seem that the council's dismay would escalate into outright hostility or worse.