Sentence examples for woes escalating from inspiring English sources

With the bank's legal woes escalating — at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign countries are investigating the bank — JPMorgan announced this month that it would have to allot $9.2 billion to cover legal expenses alone.

Europe's debt woes escalated yesterday as Ireland's credit rating was cut to junk status, and the crisis threatened to engulf its biggest victim yet in Italy.

Once the US's fourth largest city and now its 18th, Detroit's woes escalated during the recession as its already battered housing market collapsed and unemployment soared.

As Greece's woes have escalated, so have its demands on the amount of loss the creditors should accept.

He provides an escalating list of woes, designed to prove that even the lives of happy people are worse than they think.

Financing a costly oil clean-up operation will only add to Israel's woes as it prepares for an early election amid escalating unrest between Israelis and Palestinians.

A rapidly escalating cholera outbreak is the latest of Yemen's many woes.

The fault lies not so much in Mr. Cage, whose financial woes might have influenced a few less-than-stellar career moves, but in a story of escalating nuttiness and a director, Roger Donaldson, who seems to have lost all talent for pacing.

The dispute keeps escalating.

"This has become routine and is escalating, escalating, escalating".

"With our economic woes likely to continue, or perhaps even deepen, for some time and the election coming up next year, it is very likely that we are entering a period of escalating economic, political and social turmoil.