The violence escalated.

Recently, the divide in Southern California has escalated.

Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border.

Trade and investment flows into the region have escalated.

Violence across the country escalated, with many fearing civil war.

Between 1988 and 1989, racial tensions between Arabs and blacks escalated.

The unemployment was rife and the cost of food had escalated.

In the last few months of the year the violence escalated.

He repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into permanent hostility.

At the same time, political tensions between socialists and non socialists escalated.

This quickly escalated into a five day war between Russia and Georgia,

In response to attacks like the one against the Askari Mosque, violence escalated.

In morning hours the shelling of civilian targets escalated on the entire territory.

It then escalated to live and rubber ammunition and intensive firing of tear gas.

Between March 2 and July 26, 1992, the conflict escalated into a military engagement.

The civil war in Palestine escalated with the final stages of the British Mandate.

Equally, with the passage of time, its activity has escalated and become more diversified.

Moreover, the risk of an escalated war and a proliferation of the conflict would increase.

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam.

Although Nixon initially escalated the war in Vietnam, he subsequently ended the US involvement in 1973.

A series of incidents last week escalated tensions along the Blue Line to an alarming degree.

On the ground as well, India escalated its repression as soon as international pressure was eased.

So if they retaliate with the same force, the first person will think it's been escalated.

The conversation even escalated to hostile comments against the United States of America and the state of Israel.

Sadly, over the past weeks, acts of violence between Israelis and Palestinians have once again multiplied and escalated.

Since then, regrettably, the conflict has escalated throughout the territory with dire consequences for the people of Angola.

By 1974 the situation in the north escalated again into the Second Kurdish Iraqi War, to last until 1975.

Commodity shortages and spiralling prices escalated the cost of delivery of assistance to refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons.

Most of those lessons were in fact known though not publicly admitted before the US escalated the war in Vietnam.

Unfortunately today, violence was escalated by the presence of Turkish riot police, and the barricading of entrances towards the Square.

After the beginning of fighting around the city of Lawdar in early April 2011, violence escalated around Zinjibar as well.

Five years on, rather than subsiding, those problems seem to have escalated, posing serious threats to international peace and security.

In March 1993, the conflict escalated further when the Kelbadzhar district of Azerbaijan, between Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh, was occupied.

Recently demonstrations have escalated, with clashes between protesters, police and thugs occurring at the Bahrain Financial Harbour and University of Bahrain.

Eight years later, their dream has escalated to paint an entire hillside favela and create a social artwork of epic size

The claim in the report that Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border cannot be farther from the truth.

It is reported that the level of violence has escalated and that the areas most affected are in the Far East.

Notwithstanding such developments, attacks, especially by snipers, never ceased entirely and, since early August, have escalated in frequency and deadly effect.

This can cause panic if a guy has escalated to extreme porn or porn that no longer matches his sexual orientation.

Well, medical malpractice litigation in the US has escalated the cost of malpractice insurance, so that competent physicians are leaving their practice.

Tensions between China and its neighbors have escalated in the South China Sea, and between China and Japan in the East China Sea.

Pakistan has escalated its programme of recruitment, training, financing and arming of alien mercenaries as part of its offensive in Jammu and Kashmir.

This new development is part of Saudi Arabia's continuous crackdown on human rights activists which has escalated widely since the beginning of this year.

This soon escalated into the War of the Supremes, which raged for the next two years and transformed into a conflict about regional autonomy.

Tensions are reported to have escalated after Aulehan elders offered what was considered to be a wholly inadequate sum of blood money in compensation.