They're trained to think more, to try and de escalate.

This escalation occurred without using weapons of mass destruction.

Furthermore, deployment of chemical weapons invites escalation.

China expresses its concern about the recent escalation of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians.

The undeniable escalation of violence in too many big city suburbs, and the emergence of local Scarfaces who live totally without rules in a fantasy like world of brutality, reflect a state that has gone astray.

(a) Substantial reductions of tariffs, the rolling back of tariff peaks and the removal of tariff escalation

More threats will only push the international community further along the spiral of escalation and, possibly, into military action.

The warfare caused negative impact on economic growth, especially the large scale Tet Offensive in 1968.

Following the gradual increase in the violence of the last 10 days, Israel is taking more forceful action.

Despite the alarming escalation in violence, fears of civil war in Kenya are probably exaggerated.

A number of governments have taken the decision to expel Syrian ambassadors in protest at the escalation of violence.

Okinawan police were able to remove the American driver safely from the scene, but the confrontation continued to escalate.

After all, the recent military escalation in the region is at least partly due to that strategy.

In the run up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover.

The recent escalation of violence along Gaza s border with Israel does suggest that events are developing in a dangerous direction.

Many commentators on the Iraq War began, by the end of 2006, to refer to this violent escalation as a civil war.

If the six governments want to avoid the escalation spiral and curb the proliferation dynamic, they need to change strategy and objective.

Some of Kennedy s most ardent admirers still like to believe that he would have prevented the escalation of the Vietnam War had he lived longer.

His whole monastery was thrown into prison at the time of the uprising, when the Dalai Lama had to leave Tibet.

In the recent period, the Georgian authorities have sought repeatedly to focus the attention of the world community on the escalated situation in Abkhazia, Georgia.

The recent Israeli escalation has dealt a real blow to peace efforts at all levels and has weakened our hopes for achieving substantive progress in the peace process.

Nuclear terrorism, a slowdown in China, or a sharp escalation of violence in the Middle East could all blow the lid off the current economic dynamic.

With one third of the Palestinians Hamas led government now under arrest by Israel, the escalation in Israeli Palestinian relations has moved beyond military confrontation.

To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti regime activities.

As in many wars, a staged escalation in a financial crisis often leads to the worst possible outcome a defeat with large losses.

The dependence of momentum on internet communication is far greater in Libya than in Egypt where protests began in Cairo itself.

The Balkan Wars were followed by a rapid escalation between Greece and the Ottoman Empire over the as yet unclear status of the islands of the Eastern Aegean.

Moreover, most recent inflammatory statements made by terrorist leaders operating in Lebanon risk further escalations and could jeopardize the stability of the region as a whole.

Pre existing tensions have inevitably played a large part in the current flare up. But is the EU s budget calculation method also at fault?

Their patrons in the region and internationally Saudi Arabia, the United States, Syria, and Iran are also more interested in negotiation than escalation at this point.

The policy of never negotiating with terrorists cannot be scaled up to state level when hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.

Unite for Syria marked the escalation of protests and violence in that country by encouraging people around the world to uploading images to show their support for Syrians.

Its leaders seem to have interpreted Obama s attempts to engage with them, down playing bilateral aggravations, as a sign of American weakness in the wake of Wall Street s crash and military reverses in Iraq and Afghanistan.

War talk is still close to the surface in Israel, and anxiety is mounting that, in the highly charged political climate of a US election year, escalation might not be containable.

On his blog Chaturanga, Jaideep Prabhu pointed out that India's policy was to acquire a 'minimum credible deterrent' and not to escalate an arms race, as was being loosely discussed in a section of the media.

In fact, the current escalation points to an increasing political struggle between the federalist position of Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and the centralist position of Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.

The belief that terrorism cannot be eradicated assumes that the ability to tolerate terrorist attacks to ride out the storm is greater than the willingness of terrorists to persist, or even escalate the attacks.

The most frequent partners of UNICEF were UNDP (64 instances), UNFPA (47), WHO (39) and WFP (34).

MacDonald Critchley, who first wrote about the condition in 1942, described 11 cases he had examined and reviewed 15 other published cases in a 1962 publication.

For example, US support for Mexico s campaign against the cartels looks set in stone, with Congress apparently ready to provide 300 million for another year of military and security upgrading.

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