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Example sentences for: escalating

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Absent significant reform, the escalating costs of these programs will, in decades to come, crowd out what remains of the federal "discretionary" budget--the FBI, NASA, Yosemite, and all the rest.
He supported the Untouchables and defended the rights of village artisans and peasants, but his non-violent movement could not stop the escalating riots among the religious communities.
That is the fate that awaits those of us, we are told, who don't consume the escalating amount of calcium--now at a quart of milk a day or the equivalent--endorsed by public health officials.
Dawn also ran a feature deploring the escalating arms race between India and Pakistan.
Police fear an escalating war between the two sides.