Sentence examples for war escalating from inspiring English sources

Given the two-year-old Syrian civil war escalating next door, a sectarian crisis and political collapse in Iraq would be a disaster at the worst possible time.

In an age faced with the danger of a war escalating into a general extermination of mankind, the central importance of preserving peace is obvious and is generally accepted.

Even with the Iran-Iraq war escalating and missiles destroying the neighbourhood, Marji's prime concern is winning a game of "My uncle has been in prison longer than your father", or scoring a copy of the new Iron Maiden album.

For all the revolutionary ferment of May '68, the year ended with De Gaulle still in power, Nixon elected to the White House, and the Vietnam war escalating beyond all predictions as the Americans rained bombs on Laos.

Both book and film captured the humdrum nature of life during wartime: even with the Iran-Iraq war escalating and missiles destroying the neighbourhood, the young Satrapi's prime concern is competing with her friends over whose dissident relatives have been in prison the longest.

Victoria Police have since investigated the claim that there's a turf war escalating between Auimatagi's company and the outlaw Comancheros bikie gang, who have a clubhouse in the neighbouring suburb of Hallam.

In 1998, the clandestine war escalated.

The war escalated rapidly from there.

The war escalated and, by the end of 1995, government troops had taken control of Jaffna.

The war escalated, and McQueen still had no project, no film, no plans.

When the Vietnam War escalated, so did her involvement in radical causes.