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Example sentences for: escalation

How can you use “escalation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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."
To understand how the escalation in threat reporting was handled in the summer of 2001, it is useful to understand how threat information in general is collected and conveyed.
And by accelerating the bombing, NATO is warning Milosevic that it is willing to match him escalation for escalation.
"Yet massively buying weapons in self-defence only leads to a dangerous escalation of violence," it said.
Had Kennedy not opted for the blockade, it's clear that the first combat use of nuclear weapons since Nagasaki could have prompted a terrifying cycle of escalation.