escalation

How To Use escalation In A Sentence

• Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation.
• The consequences would be a rapid, continuous, and sizable escalation of oil prices in the short and long term.
• "Suddenly we saw a massive escalation in their blood pressure to very dangerous levels," she said yesterday.
• Successive governments have been clueless about the continuing escalation of crime in our nation.
• But escalation is not usually associated with adult sexuality.
• President Bush accusing Russia of what he called a dramatic and brutal escalation of its invasion of Georgia. CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008
• The inevitable result is the re-escalation of civil conflict. Iraq Withdrawal in Danger
• While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome. The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
• Putting out an eerily similar editorial is liable to lead to escalation now.
• That is due to the escalation in house prices.