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Escalated in sentence

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This quickly escalated into a five-day war between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.
So if they retaliate with the same force, the first person will think it's been escalated.
How could these performances have escalated to this enormous degree?
Now over the last century, in developed nations like America, moral debate has escalated because we take the hypothetical seriously, and we also take universals seriously and look for logical connections.
Even after a crisis is over, escalated levels of stress hormones may last for days, contributing to jittery feelings, nightmares, and other symptoms.
It was easier to detect conflict and intervene before it escalated.
Then, in 1960, after Congolese independence, it escalated because each camp tried to align with national politicians, but still to advance their local agendas.
Alarm escalated, and very soon these countries found themselves not receiving the support they needed, but increasingly isolated.
He repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into permanent hostility.
But then, Yemen took a really sad turn for the worse, and just a few days before I was due to fly out to Yemen, the civil war escalated into a regional conflict, the capital's airport was bombed and Yemen became a no-fly zone.
Well, medical malpractice litigation in the US has escalated the cost of malpractice insurance, so that competent physicians are leaving their practice.
In 2001, the uprising escalated into an armed conflict, and one of the major incidents was the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin.
"Spartans" superbly demonstrates the problems American advisors encountered in Vietnam before the United States escalated its involvement.
In the hands of experimental Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, the tale of seven "unmarried" young high-school girls who, during a school break, travel to a spooky, remote hilltop house to visit the reclusive, mysterious Aunt of one of their fold only to be consumed one at a time by the Ghost-House/Aunt in increasingly novel ways, is escalated into a spastic, phantasmagorical confetti burst of avant-garde techniques and tonalities.
I thought the way everything escalated from just the innocent bump by an excited father to the race riot was presented well.
A search of news articles from 2000 to 2016 in which the terms “dollar shortage,” “black market,” or “parallel markets” for foreign exchange appeared (shown in the chart, along with an all-commodity price index), indicates that dollar shortage concerns escalated in 2008, amid the global financial crisis.
Indeed, since that withdrawal was completed, the region’s struggles have only escalated, plunging an ever-larger area into conflict.
While the authorities have sought to quell the protests – cordoning off central New Delhi and subjecting the rest of the city to traffic restrictions – violence has escalated.
In this mix, violence escalated.
Migration’s Private-Sector Problem-SolversLONDON – As the Mediterranean migrant crisis has escalated over the past year, the spotlight has been on national governments’ policies, some of which have been generous, others callous.
Consider the Senkaku incident in 2010, when, after Japan arrested the crew of a Chinese trawler that had rammed a Japanese coast guard vessel, China escalated its economic reprisals.
For years, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina escalated, alongside a “diplomatic process” marked by a series of broken promises, culminating in the massacre at Srebrenica of thousands of civilians supposedly under United Nations protection.
Attacks on installations have often escalated to the point that overall supplies are significantly reduced and less secure.
Worse, as competition for promotion within the Chinese bureaucracy has escalated, even fake academic credentials and GDP growth records have become insufficient to advance one’s career.
The situation escalated sharply earlier this month, when Yameen refused to comply with the Supreme Court’s unanimous order quashing the convictions, which he had engineered, of nine opposition figures – including the exiled former president, Mohamed Nasheed – on terrorism charges.
China's diplomatic offensive against Taiwan escalated in early August, when President Hu Jintao telephoned US President George W. Bush to demand a halt to the sale of advanced weapons to Taiwan.
For example, China has not only escalated its challenge to Japan’s decades-old control of the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, but is also facing off against the Philippines since taking effective control of Scarborough Shoal last year.
Angela Merkel’s Moment of TruthBERLIN – In the last two weeks, the two crises confronting Europe – in Ukraine and Greece – both escalated.
Since then, growth in these economies has slowed markedly, their stock markets have slumped, capital outflows have escalated, and many of their currencies have crashed.
Soon, the violence escalated.
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