Interestingly, though, CS GO reverses the usual arms escalation – here, you downgrade after every kill, working your way from assault rifle, through the P90, the shotgun and the Desert Eagle pistol and on to the lowly knife.
North Korea is not getting what they want [diplomatically] so they will probably use their usual trick of rising escalation.
Mortar fire and other heavy weapons have ravaged neighborhoods, a severe escalation from the usual sporadic gunfire that raised fears that the violence, usually contained in a few districts, would spread.
This was the first direct Israeli attack on a Syrian target in Lebanon since 1996, and a marked escalation from Israel's usual tit-for-tat exchanges with Hizbullah.To most Lebanese, the air strike was an unneeded reminder of the price they pay for playing host to a 30,000-strong Syrian "protection" force.
To handle the fluctuations in the economic climate, it is usual practice to include a constant escalation rate for each module as listed in Table 4.
"The UN are in the usual dilemma: it knows that the escalation of violence can have explosive consequences in the Great Lakes region but at the same time it relies on the Africans to solve this crisis," said Thierry Vircoulon, Central African consultant at the International Crisis Group, referencing mediation efforts nominally overseen by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
And this week's sharper tone, accusing Mr. Obama of "systematic favoritism" and steering taxpayer dollars into the pockets of his campaign donors, represents an escalation of Mr. Romney's usual stump speech.
But, this time, there were other differences, too: the target (the Iranian Embassy in the mainly Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut) and the tactics (a multi-stage attack involving suicide bombers rather than the usual parked-car bomb) represent a significant escalation in an increasingly violent Lebanese dispute over events in neighboring Syria.
That prompted the usual State Department even-handwringing from Colin Powell, criticizing both mortar escalation and the "excessive" raid.
In this study, a planned cohort size of 12 evaluable patients in each dose escalation cohort was used, rather than the usual six.
