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Example sentences for: escalation

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The escalation culminated in an assertion by the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Rep.
While Mr. Blair tried to stiffen spines among the other 17 Nato leaders arriving for the Alliance's 50 th birthday, Mr. Clinton made it clear that the world's sole superpower was underwriting the British-led escalation."
Arab newspapers are now warning their readers that the current escalation of United States airstrikes on Iraq could culminate in a major military offensive aimed at bringing down President Saddam Hussein.
The paper says the subpoena is "particularly broad" and signals "an escalation in the battle between the White House and the independent counsel."
In Russia, Izvestiya reported Thursday that Russian military chiefs have plans to storm the Chechen capital of Grozny in what would mark a huge escalation of the weekold invasion of the rebel republic.