Danielle Paffard, another activist who received a conditional discharge after pleading guilty to aggravated trespass at Didcot power station in 2009, agrees it "feels like there is an escalating attempt to intimidate protesters".
The Kremlin raised the stakes Wednesday by firing cruise missiles into Syria from warships nearly 1,000 miles away as Obama's critics at home and abroad said Putin's escalating attempt to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad already has made the White House look weak and wavering.
The movement took a violent turn on Sunday night, when police used water cannon, batons and pepper spray to thwart demonstrators' attempts to "escalate" the movement by surrounding government offices.
Lester Shum, a student leader with the Hong Kong Federation of Students, criticized the attempts to escalate a confrontation with the authorities.
Syria's military command issued a relatively feeble statement in response: "We warn that these desperate attempts to escalate and exacerbate the situation in these circumstances by repeating these acts of aggression would endanger the security and stability of the region".
The second strategy attempts to escalate tumour target dose while maintaining acceptable levels of toxicity.
And, while much is still uncertain, Tuesday's attack appears to have been their attempt to escalate a strategy they have employed ever since the Libyan revolution overthrew Colonel Qaddafi's dictatorship.
But then you did this thing that was clearly an attempt to escalate!" To which McNamara would comment, "No, we did that to try to quiet things down, because we thought you...."....
Responding with greater force and attempting to escalate the battle could be dangerous, too.
He may hope that the rallies run out of steam.Mr Navalny's calculated attempt to escalate the protests could not disguise their fading intensity.
But an Israeli Army spokesman said, "The Lebanese government and its Syrian guardian are responsible for attempting to escalate the situation in the Mount Dov sector".
