After centuries of unsustainable use, as well as rapidly escalating forest destruction since 1950, less than 60,000 km2 (23,000 sq mi) or 10 of Madagascar's land area remains forested.

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

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

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.

She spoke rapidly.

Rats breed rapidly.

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.

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.

Finally, employment continues to contract rapidly.

However, his options are shrinking rapidly.

These colors fade rapidly at death.

The world has been changing rapidly.

Whale watching has grown quite rapidly.

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.

The volume of trade is growing rapidly.

Rapidly, visibly, and inevitably, China has risen.

Moreover, Chinese wages have been rising rapidly.

The financial system rapidly returned to health.

Second, China s wage levels are rising rapidly.

Fake elections are rapidly become the norm.

Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

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These discoveries rapidly spread around the world.

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.