Sentence examples for try to escalate from inspiring English sources

He may try to escalate the situation.

Although the group have mainly confined their activities to northeastern Nigeria many fear extremist elements within the sect may try to escalate the crisis throughout the country.

Some analysts suggested that Mr. Ahmadinejad might try to escalate the confrontation with world powers over Iran's secretive nuclear program in an effort to prevent his own early demise.

For weeks, officials had warned that insurgents might try to escalate attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, which began in August, capitalizing on months of stalemate over forming a new government here.

Callaghan was so concerned that Scargill would try to escalate the dispute using thousands of flying pickets that he even asked the cabinet secretary to draw up a note reminding him of the lessons of the so-called battle of Saltley Gates in Birmingham, when flying mass pickets won a decisive victory during the 1972 miners' strike and helped to bring down Edward Heath's Conservative government.

Most of these trials begin with a low dose and then try to escalate to the target dose [ 22, 26– 28].

In 1980 a clinical supervisor tried to escalate the concerns of students who had told her of sexually inappropriate behaviour by Savile at their accommodation block.

But instead of promoting progress on a trade, Prokhorov boasted to CNBC of trying to escalate the Nuggets' asking price from the Knicks in the continuing three-team trade drama.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Thursday signed into law new unilateral American sanctions on Iran that go beyond the penalties imposed by the United Nations last month as he tries to escalate the pressure on Tehran to halt its nuclear enrichment program.

Updated at 11.00pm BST 10.39pm BST Damascus has accused Turkey of being "hasty" in shooting down a helicopter Monday and of trying to escalate tensions, according to a state media report quoted by Reuters.

"The impression is that some forces in Tbilisi, who oppose the normal and smooth transition of functions in the security zones in South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Russian peacekeepers to European Union observers, are deliberately trying to escalate tensions and seeking to provoke new hostilities through a series of terrorist acts," the statement read.