Golyshev asks us to believe that the people atop the Trade Unions House fired on the crowd with the intent of escalating the conflict.

The group was established in Madrid in 2002, recalling Madrid Conference of 1991, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East.

In Darfur, recurrent drought has poisoned relations between farmers and nomadic herdsmen, and the war we are helplessly witnessing today follows years of escalating conflict.

Renewed conflict could also drag in the United States (supporting the South) and China (Bashir s key international backer) into a dangerous and potentially escalating proxy conflict of the kind that was common in Africa throughout the Cold War.

Nasser had initially rejected the plan, but conceded under pressure from the Soviet Union, which feared that escalating regional conflict could drag it into a war with the US.

Meanwhile, the crisis over Iran s nuclear program is escalating.

Will armed conflict result from these recurring and, it seems, escalating disputes between the Philippines and Vietnam on one side, and China on the other? War, of course, is in no one s interest.

On the contrary, since 2005, the FARC has been escalating its attacks.

The escalating conflict in recent months has resulted in the killing of numerous civilians, including pro governmental figures and progressive mullahs, as well as electoral candidates and workers, people involved in mine clearance and other humanitarian actors.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects.

He put less enthusiasm into the work, leading to escalating arguments with Lewis.

Women also suffered disproportionately from the effects of escalating civil and ethnic conflicts.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, tensions are either escalating or are brewing dangerously.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects. Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities.

Unresolved boundary issues, squabbles over oil revenues, the ongoing conflict in Darfur, escalating tribal violence in the south and generally weak state capacity across all of Sudan complete a very depressing picture of the state of affairs in Africa's largest country.

Syria is a special concern. For six months we have seen escalating violence and repression.

Syria Untold documents the under reported peace movement, which has continued despite the escalating war.

While the risk of armed conflict remains low, the current war of words is escalating, as is the covert war in which Israel and the US are engaged with Iran and now Iran is lashing back with terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats.

The escalating crisis of legitimacy forced the government to invent imaginative ways to justify its power.

Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter sectarian alliances.

Although the violence was escalating, the death toll was still in the thousands, not tens of thousands.

It will produce a juggernaut of escalating regulation and surveillance, which will reduce trust further and encourage cheating.

The news of the currently escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territories was therefore highly regrettable and distressing.

Condemns repeated Israeli threats against Syria aiming at wrecking the peace process and escalating tension in the region.

Given our good relations with all the key stakeholders in the crisis, Serbia can contribute to the process. Our chief objectives are preventing the crisis from escalating into a larger conflict, ensuring a sustainable political process, and preserving the inclusive and cooperative nature of the OSCE s work.

As the war drags on, positive results are nowhere to be seen, while violence in the country is escalating.

The greatest danger is that an escalating fear of enmity in the three countries becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

But will tax revenues rise fast enough to offset the escalating cost of servicing the government s mountain of debt?

Due to the escalating political tensions, and the outbreak of World War II, these developments were largely kept secret.

My envoys used their good offices in seeking peace agreements or in trying to prevent disputes from violently escalating.

With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence.

There will be no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political settlement of the Palestine question.

The perpetrator is also likely to engage in ever escalating rationalizations, often arguing that the offenses serve a greater good.

Our debates are unfolding against a backdrop of escalating oil prices, whose worst fallout we may have yet to see.

United Nations staff members continue to face serious and often escalating threats in carrying out their duties in the field.

To date, Iraqi officials have not been willing to deal with this escalating violence against women, or even to discuss it.

With unemployment rising, income dropping to record low levels, and internal tensions escalating, fighting between supporters of Hamas and Fatah began.

During the reporting period, progress was made by the Joint Verification Mechanism and the Tripartite Commission in de escalating regional tensions.

The forces conniving to oppose democracy responded by escalating the breakdown in the constitutional order and the legitimate exercise of power.

Second, if foreign debt is the real problem, the escalating debate about the Reinhart Rogoff results is irrelevant for the euro crisis.

For example, China began pressing territorial claims in the South China Sea, as well as escalating a longstanding border dispute with India.

Here are some of their reflections from yesterday although the events are escalating very fast into gunfights in the streets of Beirut.

Those requirements have ramifications for protecting the global climate, ensuring sustainability of energy resources and restraining the escalating spiral of fuel prices.

And that rate has been escalating at the same rate as children not walking to school anymore, again, because of our development patterns.

Those incidents clearly demonstrate that there is a real risk of escalating violence and reprisals that could have destabilizing repercussions throughout the region.