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    1. Behaviors would escalate not only with myself but with others as anyone who works in this field can tell you


    2. “Any party involved in this attack will know that security will escalate rapidly after this event


    3. Despite the abundance of energy and food resources, the fundamental problem of the lack of land space appeared to have tipped the balance, to somehow escalate to a point where their world had become effectively uninhabitable


    4. The more you kill the more martyrs (struggle heroes in our terminology) you create and the more the violence escalate until you flood the area with soldiers and call it "the surge" or whatever fancy word you can think off for publicity reasons for there is nothing new under the sun and everything new comes from Africa anyway according to legend


    5. Mark my words; it is going to escalate a lot


    6. Anything else will escalate beyond what you expected and you don't have the political will to stay on and will not only lose valuable soldiers and equipment but much prestige


    7. A few hours after these sessions, the pain would escalate to such a pitch that I couldn’t sleep that night, only cry


    8. (8-02-1964) Gulf of Tonkin Incident: President Johnson used that incident to escalate our involvement in Vietnam


    9. see that my wayward behavior was destined to escalate


    10. It can be easier than you would think to escalate

    11. Without waiting for an answer the President disengaged his arm, strode to the table and banged his fist on a photo of the Thanh Hoa Bridge, and said, "I've got to tell Ho Chi Minh that unless he stops his aggression in South Veet-nam, that I'm going to hammer hell out of him; and at the same time I've got to tell, to convince, the American people, that I am not going to escalate this Veet-nam war


    12. want to escalate to becoming as crazy as a shit house rat that was


    13. interjected before it could escalate much further though, and as


    14. that with wars and violence, all forms of violence will escalate, not only in those countries


    15. I watched it quickly escalate as his esteem of self collapsed beneath the weight of jealous rage: the Church held Me in high regard


    16. Arguments with her parents about her move to Texas, trouble at school, and problems with a desperate and clingy boyfriend, were all factors in why Anna felt the need to escalate an already dangerous situation on the night of her murder


    17. • Abusive behaviors learned in adolescence can escalate into adulthood For over 15 years, domestic violence and sexual assault agencies have provided a range of teen dating violence prevention education programs in schools using federal and state domestic violence and sexual assault funds and private grants


    18. Solicitation charges escalate depending on the degree of felony which was allegedly solicited


    19. If you’re not careful conflicts can escalate


    20. “Cale,” she said quietly, urgently, knowing that if she yelled he would only escalate

    21. He would spend money quickly in an effort to escalate his fun


    22. Then it dawned on me that my blood pressure was beginning to escalate as I anticipated whether they were going to win or they were going to lose


    23. thing can cause things to escalate very quickly


    24. Before the confrontation could escalate into a possible physical one a few Bloodliner men came to Joey and his friends and offered them a drink, deliberately trying to put the conflict to an end


    25. behaviour and then you take this preference and escalate it


    26. The fear of fear feeds off of itself and can escalate into the form of panic attacks


    27. tions will escalate your progress in achieving a long night’s


    28. It may escalate eventually all the way to nuclear strikes on Iran, or it could die down in a couple of weeks and turn into prolonged underground hostilities via terrorist attacks and covert special forces strikes


    29. conflict was going to escalate


    30. The Administrator wanted to escalate

    31. they want to escalate things with you in a physical manner


    32. wants to escalate things physically


    33. escalate things physically, but will just "feel" that she wants you to act


    34. This caused me to escalate my claims, from experiencing simple knowings, to include the experiences I had with seeing how people gave themselves away


    35. I froze, not wanting to escalate the situation


    36. government that does not listen and allows living standards to escalate?


    37. ” He nodded towards the windows where the storm continued to escalate


    38. He knew better than to escalate an argument with any woman, let alone her


    39. Costs for medical, police and military intervention would escalate to unsustainable levels, not to mention the lack of manpower to deal with the issues


    40. expert explained how she could escalate her security access by watching the company’s own I

    41. While more leverage may escalate the price of a firm’s stock in a world without


    42. escalate during the second and third quarters but loans get paid off just in time for the


    43. The higher beta allows a firm to both escalate earnings with


    44. be used as appropriate and will realistically escalate this cost


    45. increases will escalate the return on capital (ROC) and can offer a less risky source of


    46. whether a company's sales will suddenly escalate, and such research is not in the realm of


    47. But such attacks also stand to fuel the fire of war and escalate hostilities


    48. If product supply disruptions, such as a drought, oil embargo or licensing restriction, limited product availability, prices of affected products would escalate


    49. Both continue to escalate at an alarming rate


    50. The US and China have officially refused to take part in what may well escalate into a major conflict, and the shadow PM stated at a press meeting earlier this evening that he considered the entire affair an elaborate PR stunt designed by the government in order to win the coming elections







































    1. She smiled, “Well, from there things kind of escalated pretty fast


    2. Their breathing got louder, but before the picnic escalated any


    3. escalated to an all-out cheer


    4. Fane and Sunyula tried negotiating, but the bitch wouldn’t compromise or back down on anything, and soon enough it escalated


    5. Whenever a white person was attacked and killed it immediately escalated for the colonialists were very much less in numbers than the locals and could only keep them in subjection with force and divide to rule


    6. ‘The first runner-up is,’ there was a dramatic pause, ‘Bernie from Heads with his model Ann the Techno!’ Joe’s voice escalated with every word


    7. She needed to be stopped, before this escalated and got worse


    8. Finally they escalated the matter


    9. Now my annoyance escalated by several notches: he was the one who’d so angered me at the braai


    10. team was struggling to deal with could be escalated to the steering committee for

    11. If it weren’t for those brave men, the crisis would have escalated into an unimaginable


    12. I woke up at 6:30 AM to a profanity-laden argument coming from Cory and someone in the passenger seat that escalated into shouting


    13. Once he got started, things escalated until one of us


    14. The ordeal lasted one hour and the price escalated from the original one agreed upon


    15. “The next day, the threat escalated


    16. the RCMP depot in Regina and escalated to an incident when a superior showed her


    17. Although triggered by a religious question, the crisis soon escalated into a constitutional one


    18. This is how things escalated, how his methods of


    19. into his words as he escalated the severity of his


    20. Within a month, this practice escalated to about

    21. controlled his escalated breathing as he walked to the front


    22. When the cumulous clouds shaped into charcoal Lanny smiled and told Antonio how certain points escalated


    23. Thompson’s bizarre behavior escalated


    24. the cause, it had escalated


    25. escalated with prickly currents all through her, and she sat up a little


    26. What was disturbing about this is that this woman knew something was wrong before it escalated to that point


    27. The chance of landslides has escalated with the new rains


    28. The screaming escalated, his eyes were wild and feral looking and objects began to fly around the room like miniature missiles striking the boy


    29. But she didn’t, because then it would have escalated into something silly and Pedro would have come running and told her he was disappointed in her behavior


    30. She was taking things she thought she could use at first, then it escalated to stealing luxury items she could carry out just for the sake of stealing and getting away with it

    31. While opening fire could not legally be justified at this point, tensions had clearly escalated


    32. As the gunfight above her escalated, the mech kicked her off, breaking a few of her ribs and the last of her armor


    33. escalated into punches and wrestling


    34. The stranger blocked most of her hits, but as her velocity and force escalated, more fell


    35. The meows escalated in intensity, volume, and delivery


    36. Frustration had escalated to the point of blocking thought


    37. before things escalated again into chaos Eleanor interrupted


    38. When the producer condescendingly dismissed these ideas through his unguarded expressions, I escalated my grand ‘insights’ to giving away what Bonnie’s channels had said about this time in mankind’s history


    39. Either way, the issue was utterly unimportant and had escalated in proportion in her mind


    40. withdrawal stage escalated his violence

    41. The argument had escalated into something far more deadly than first appeared


    42. She had gotten sick the summer before with fever, and it soon escalated to the point that she couldn’t move the right side of her body


    43. Tensions quickly escalated even further and the U


    44. We moved in, and the attacks escalated


    45. After Shealyse’s birth, things had escalated to the point of him regularly striking her


    46. The whole situation could have easily escalated into a full fledge war, had the curator at the time, a Baris Nilz, failed to convince Captain Kirk of the necessity of protecting his station, and a valuable shipment of quadrotriticale


    47. The tension around the table escalated, but the Captain still had a reign on his people


    48. escalated version of events – western warning counter attacks these most difficult queries


    49. By the 1870’s Britain’s aspirations in South Africa had escalated following the discovery of huge mineral deposits in this country


    50. The industrial dispute escalated this week with 288 cabin crew being taken off the payroll











































    1. escalates from wonder to joy and from appreciation to


    2. “We need to stop this situation before it escalates


    3. What starts out as a cute habit in young puppies often escalates into a big problem that can be very difficult to correct


    4. In many cases, it escalates with time and can include actual physical violence


    5. but running away doesn’t help resolve the conflict, it only escalates it


    6. Know this, gentlemen, and tell that to your respective governments: the President of the United States has spoken with the President of Russia today and both agreed together that this conflict must end now, before it escalates further


    7. acquisitions as through internal “organic” growth, the need for funds escalates


    8. with less equity, and the share price escalates


    9. Every second the trembling escalates


    10. “Now, before this escalates any further, allow me to escort you back…”

    11. When he enters the war with his division, he keeps in contact with his higher commander especially in the thick fight when the war status escalates and comes to a head, and when there becomes no room for moving or manoeuvring, and he senses a real danger pervading the division, he does nothing but holds the field telephone and communicates with his wise merciful commander informing him about the painful military fact and asking for his wise discerning opinion to accomplish it at once


    12. She wants to cry, but the hilarious hysteria escalates


    13. working position, the money eventually escalates into billions


    14. Today, the percentage of people who are employed gradually increases and the wage that they earn escalates as well, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics


    15. escalates with an increase in the


    16. No one can control them if this escalates


    17. ity is that the dopamine signal to drug cues escalates over time due to incubation of


    1. · If the conflict is escalating, remove yourself from the situation until you can face it calmly and appropriately


    2. Interestingly though, due to the prey’s need to constantly develop and improve her skills of alertness and evasion, and the resulting need of the predator to continually develop and improve his skills of detection and capture, they both entered into a kind of escalating “arms race” that led to their joint evolution, mutually benefiting both parties


    3. You should realize that kissing- a simple kiss on the lips- is actually a comfort move that conveys direct interest, without escalating too fast


    4. The man wearing a light short-sleeved shirt, but sweating profusely in the intense heat of early evening, said: ‘In spite of the militant stance of the Saudi leader the majority of public opinion appears to be against this conflict escalating into war


    5. Even if he did – if he could – put a stop to the project, that would not make any difference at this stage, now events were escalating to full-scale war


    6. ‘All right now,’ Dr Karol said, surely sensing the escalating argument


    7. She had thought each suitor would be more and more alike as they got to the end, but to her surprise she was finding their level of malfeasance to be escalating


    8. The war in Iraq, burgeoning budget deficits, escalating energy prices, the Katrina fumble, immigration and controversies surrounding his chief political advisor have contributed to the president‘s growing unpopularity among Liberals and Conservatives, alike, thereby exhausting whatever remaining political capital he might have had in advancing the judicial career of a long time friend


    9. overdraft, with escalating bank charges I would die


    10. A couple of girls tried to talk Buffo away from his escalating temper

    11. for the man escalating


    12. reluctantly, his humiliation escalating, he opened his eyes as she


    13. With an escalating concern


    14. It shouldn’t be escalating this fast, he thought


    15. “I’m not sure, but things are escalating much more


    16. Things are escalating far more


    17. I had seen so many, from all points on the Earth’s map, but tonight the moon was traumatizing in its exquisiteness, its magnificence held no bounds for me and as I walked along the darkened streets of this American city, I couldn’t help escalating into its hypnotic trance


    18. escalating horror, my dad became more of an abstract monster in


    19. increments of escalating levels of trauma; once I figured out that


    20. The war is escalating and we cannot continue to send tiny backyard Cessnas into such places

    21. “No, no, NO!” he screamed, his voice escalating into hysterics


    22. because of the escalating costs of health insurance


    23. The author (Richard Johnson) concludes that Gāndhi was correct in saying that responding to terror with terror leads to escalating violence, more terror and insecurity, and we need to explore alternative non-violent approaches


    24. ” The director said, his voice now escalating as he cut Davis off


    25. ” It was bizarre, surreal, her talking to him while they were locked in an escalating struggle while she was ‘changing’


    26. a good way to shelve the content of the criticism without escalating conflict


    27. He was not worried Jamie would use EDWARD for anything harmful, but he did know if others knew she had the access it would make her a target, and he was beginning to see where the rebels were not the only trouble that was escalating


    28. Her emotions are already escalating inside herself


    29. So, in a nutshell, attraction signs exist to tell you that you can move forward from the introduction phase and concentrate on qualifying, isolating, and escalating things physically


    30. escalating over many years, the council tax trebled in 9 years but

    31. The word of the guest’s disappearance had undoubtedly spread like wildfire this morning, with the drama and anxiety surrounding the situation escalating to enormous proportions as if this unfortunate incident was somehow more concrete and realistic than the new reports from Washington, D


    32. She crossed the road to avoid the escalating conflict but, very rudely thought Mavis, was avidly watching


    33. An argument was escalating beyond her confines


    34. He was determined to avenge the destruction of British cities by escalating aerial bombardment, and targeted the largest centres of population, which, he believed would "break the spirit of the German people”


    35. escalating process of acquiring more: a larger house, another SUV, a


    36. To help calm himself down, he returned the kiss, escalating the shared passion of the moment


    37. The war in Europe was escalating


    38. because the situation kept escalating


    39. Tammas had chosen the first weapon: the tray, escalating the fight


    40. Panic grabbed hold of her body, escalating her heart rate to twice its normal pace

    41. hard-earned salaries, and the escalating rates and taxes we fork out for


    42. “Well, the fight kept escalating


    43. They include: a hugely expanding rural population that is moving to the urban areas; illiteracy – especially in regards Information Technology; lack of adequate schooling and medical care facilities; and their constantly escalating states of poverty


    44. Escalating the art of lying to become the truth


    45. Terror and wars on terror are escalating towards negative Israel


    46. As a result, while Europe and Asia flew into a controlled frenzy of “What can we do?” activities and Africans took advantage of the situation by escalating their favorite pastimes of coups and carnage to new depths of depravity, in the good ol’ US of A it was business as usual


    47. Darek watched them tear each other apart in this escalating


    48. The contentions between husband and wife, parents and children were escalating, that their neighbors and friends are warned of impending breakdown


    49. She realized that her escalating wrong choices led her to destruction as precipitated by her drug use


    50. This is why share communities never really developed in Vermont because of the escalating land and food production costs




























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    escalate intensify step up heighten grow increase

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    increase in extent or intensity