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

Excessive debt burdens continued to be a great hindrance to the growth potential of many such countries, especially in the light of escalating oil prices and declining commodity prices.

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

But the Bush administration can seek ways to contain global energy prices and it should begin by refusing to be baited into escalating tensions whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pleases.

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

Global climate change, the sustainability of energy resources, the need to meet ever increasing energy needs in order to support economic development and concerns regarding escalating trends in fuel prices point towards the inevitability of nuclear power.

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.

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.

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.

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Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

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.

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

Housing prices peaked in 2006, and equity prices peaked in 2007.

Shortages of natural gas increased fertilizer prices, pushing up food prices.

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.

These may be either the best country prices or perhaps even international prices, but they are not local farm gate prices.

High oil prices fuel public discussion about the future of oil prices.

But, whereas metal prices have fallen, oil prices are reaching record highs.

The prices of traded mortgage backed securities have followed house prices down.

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.

Prices are high.

Prices went up.