The key is to anticipate the need for action before tensions escalate to the point of no return.

With the situation threatening to escalate further, both sides need to contain the conflict quickly and restore the status quo.

The HIV pandemic continues to escalate.

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

Any attempt to evacuate them could escalate into a civil war.

The prospects for friction between EU members escalate.

Yes, Ahmadinejad will probably find a way to re escalate the conflict.

As long as the Coalition forces stay, violence is likely to escalate.

But if they leave, it will also escalate, only faster.

Muddling through as before would only escalate and prolong the crisis.

Should Iran manage to become a nuclear power, the Saudis existential fears would dramatically escalate.

With the situation threatening to escalate further, both sides need to contain the conflict quickly and restore the status quo. Indeed, the situation is all the more volatile in view of the political transition now underway in China.

The current violence may escalate further, and could bring down the Hamas government.

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

This delicate situation could escalate into further currency intervention, trade protectionism, and capital controls.

Any one of those problems could escalate into conflict, thereby threatening life and security.

Rawya Rageh tells her 83.3K followers Nimr's execution will further escalate tensions in the region

As the report noted, the huge and highly concentrated banking sector s problems could quickly escalate to systemic proportions with serious economic repercussions.

And if politicians choose less efficient, less coordinated cap and trade policies, the costs could escalate a further 10 to 100 times.

However, a section of netizens felt that these missile tests were not going to escalate security tensions among India, China and Pakistan.

The party bullied and panicked the electorate as it allowed a decades old conflict to re escalate after a period of peace.

Such incidents could easily escalate into situations that would compromise military stability and roll back the peace process.

Yes, Ahmadinejad will probably find a way to re escalate the conflict. No one can stop Iran from threatening the Strait of Hormuz.

President Lyndon Johnson, when deciding to escalate US intervention in Vietnam, drew an analogy with Munich, when the failure to respond to Hitler s aggression had catastrophic consequences.

If the Security Council fails to authorize action, those of us determined to protect Libyan civilians will face a more difficult choice should the violence escalate.

So what is to be done? There is no way around a strategy of engagement and containment with regard to North Korea or the crisis will escalate.

But, given Armenia s alliance with Russia and Azerbaijan s close ties with Turkey, an eruption over Karabakh could very well escalate regionally.

So why does the US continue to back a deadly rebellion in a civil war that is continuing to escalate dangerously, now to the point of chemical weapons attacks?

The government, claims Mater, is painting Alwefaq in a negative frame trying to portray us as rejectionists who refuse to participate in elections in order to escalate the situation.

While encouraging the ongoing peace process in those conflict areas, OIC continued to hope that the international community would make efforts to de escalate the tensions in those regions.

As monsoon season came and went, the Hutu Tutsi conflict in neighbouring Congo began to escalate and then spill over into Zambia with repercussions all along the lake.

This might be advantageous for Bush s domestic purposes, but as a foreign policy, it will only escalate the risk of a Middle East explosion.

Such gaps have contributed greatly to the problem if they are not addressed, the problem is likely to escalate, especially with the expected influx of additional troops to be deployed in the country.

If ever there were an opportunity for China and Taiwan to find a way to ensure that future confrontations do not escalate and drag the US into a conflict, it is now.

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.

President Hu Jintao s visit to Washington was a clear attempt to de escalate tensions with the US over American arms sales to Taiwan, the renminbi s exchange rate, and Obama s meeting with the Dalai Lama.

I am concerned, that in the absence of concrete action, the situation could escalate and, by intent or as a result of a miscalculation, lead to another round of devastating hostilities.

The level of education is a conclusive factor in female participation rates in the labor force and the rates escalate as the level of education rises.

An early warning system' as part of this network, helping to defuse local conflicts before they escalate, as well as providing a channel for moral and material support to civil society groups facing repression.

Its moral authority has been compromised in the Bush years, it cannot put more troops on the ground to defend Georgian sovereignty, and, even if it could, doing so would escalate the crisis.

Iran has threatened to leave the NPT if sanctions are imposed, and Russia and China worry that even modest targeted sanctions could escalate and ultimately legitimize an American use of force that they wish to avoid.

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.

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We need to strengthen multilateralism we need to strengthen international cooperation we need to strengthen international solidarity.

Ultimately, the key is to build democratic institutions that are strong enough to de escalate violence and protect citizens, which in turn requires that political leaders try new options, and that societies assume more responsibility for their fate.