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As the embassy was opened, Palestinian residents of Gaza
escalated
their protests demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to what is now Israel, prompting Israeli soldiers to kill at least 62 demonstrators and wound more than 1,500 others at the Gaza boundary fence.
Similar attacks have lately been carried out against security forces and, in some cases, non-Rohingya civilians, with the violence having
escalated
over the last 12 months.
The response of US President Donald Trump’s administration – which has included unprecedented saber-rattling on Twitter – has
escalated
tensions further.
This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was
escalated
dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006.
When Bin Laden’s close collaborator Ayman al-Zawahiri asked al-Zaraqawi to avoid targeting Shiites, al-Zaraqawi instead
escalated
the violence against them.
For the past three centuries, humans’ effects on the global environment have
escalated.
With continued assaults on local schools, Boko Haram has
escalated
its war against education – making the last two years Nigeria’s worst in terms of the violation of children’s rights.
In addition to his adventurism in Ukraine, he has injected obstructionism into European politics through his support of populist and euroskeptic parties,
escalated
the conflict in the Middle East by his military intervention in Syria and, as a consequence, aggravated the refugee crisis.
After all, it worked successfully for decades: the unprecedented geostrategic, military, and ideological confrontation of the Cold War never
escalated
into open, head-to-head warfare.
Even as Jonathan was struggling to defuse the rage in the streets, Boko Haram – the violent Islamic sect that has been terrorizing the northern part of the country since 2009 –
escalated
its attacks.
State-sponsored violence against the MDC and its supporters has
escalated
as the June 27 run-off vote draws near.
These domestic considerations help to explain why Saudi Arabia has thrown down the gauntlet and
escalated
tensions with Iran in recent months.
Its center has shifted from Iraq (where sectarian strife has recently
escalated
again) to Syria, but it encompasses Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia as well.
Tensions between China and its neighbors have
escalated
in the South China Sea, and between China and Japan in the East China Sea.
In August, a dispute between staff members from the prosecutor-general’s office and members of the new Anti-Corruption Bureau resulted
escalated
into a fistfight.
And, the Post notes, his lying seems to have
escalated
in recent weeks.
But the fact is that, when it comes to AMR, governments have a rare opportunity to preempt a major crisis, at a fraction of the cost of responding to the crisis once it has
escalated.
Previous demands for pragmatic reforms have
escalated
into pressure for the wholesale transformation – or even total destruction – of the global framework of multilateral institutions.
Had the European Council’s heads of state and government taken this foreseeable decision a year ago, the euro crisis would not have
escalated
to the extent that it has, the total bill would have been lower, and European leaders would have been rightly praised for a historic feat.
Tensions between the Greek and German governments ran high, and speculation about whether Greece would remain in the eurozone
escalated.
In recent years, as appeals for aid have escalated, countries undergoing domestic austerity have increasingly had to justify their foreign-aid outlays.
Such demands
escalated
dramatically after Hariri’s death, as tens of thousands of the former prime minister’s partisans, who previously sat on the fence when it came to Syria, shouted “Syria out.”
True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have
escalated
since the fall of Saddam.
Most of those lessons were in fact known – though not publicly admitted – before the US
escalated
the war in Vietnam.
Lyndon Johnson
escalated
US military intervention in Vietnam on the pretext of a North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin that never happened.
Whereas Japan is separated from China by an ocean and the US is geographically distant, China has sharply
escalated
border violations and other incidents in recent years to increase pressure on India, even as the US has maintained tacit neutrality on Sino-Indian disputes.
And, under Kim Jong-un’s leadership, the situation
escalated
further when the regime began making significant progress toward developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US mainland.
Official corruption
escalated.
Since the launch of my administration, North Korea has
escalated
its military threats and bellicose rhetoric against the South.
From a military perspective, the situation could have
escalated
catastrophically.
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