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Example sentences for: escalated

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The emergency response effort escalated with the crash of United 175 into the South Tower.
This is the latest in a series of incidents--a North Korean submarine crew infiltrating the South, North Korea's top ideologist seeking asylum in South Korea's Beijing embassy--that have escalated tensions between the two countries.
GAO was created in 1921 as a result of the Budget and Accounting Act, a law designed to improve government financial controls and management in the aftermath of World War I. Wartime spending had increased the national debt, escalated costs for many government purchases, and created substantial disarray in the financial operations of the War Department and other agencies.
[It] escalated a guerrilla warfare into a real war, and the real losers are the Kosovars and innocent civilians."
The controversy over Palestinian land sales to Jews escalated.