escalated how?

It gradually escalated.

This thing has escalated.

With tensions escalating,

We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

But it was relevant because it really escalated the War.

The President's speech was calculated to ease world tensions.

We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness.

He repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into permanent hostility.

There are signs of growing tensions between the two countries.

Where there's a weapon, there's crime. Tensions rose, and rose.

This quickly escalated into a five day war between Russia and Georgia,

When the War was really escalated, we eventually get to 500,000 US troops.

You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions.

The current situation in the Middle East is a time bomb of tensions.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

So if they retaliate with the same force, the first person will think it's been escalated.

I will have to take up tensions that are much more serious than this.

Once it escalated into a murderone beef for all, after they killed two guards they didn't hesitate.

Most importantly, the basic income would lead to an escalation of the existing social tensions.

This is producing all sorts of tensions, all sorts of dynamics that are deeply disturbing.

Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.

And these tensions have deep evolutionary roots, so selfish behavior is adaptive in certain circumstances fight or flight.

Well, medical malpractice litigation in the US has escalated the cost of malpractice insurance, so that competent physicians are leaving their practice.

Negotiations are difficult, the tensions are high, progress is slow, and then, 10 minutes to 2, a prime minister shouts out,

And so with all these crises, we have let's see ethnic and minority tensions we have chemical and nuclear spills, nuclear proliferation.

In 2001, the uprising escalated into an armed conflict, and one of the major incidents was the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin.

So, the most enterprising Africans end up going to work for government, and that has increased the political tensions in our countries precisely because we depend on aid.

(Filmmaker) With about 500 undocumented immigrants entering into Greece everyday, and with the economic situation showing no signs of improvement, it's safe to say the tensions in Greece are likely to get worse.

I believe that there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions institutions that are the institutions that people inhabit in their daily life schools, hospitals, workplaces, factories, offices, etc.

More broadly, the events of the last two weeks also speak to the need for all of us to honestly address the tensions between the West and the Arab World that is moving towards democracy.

Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

I think he can help us all through a sound management of the U.S. economy, which he s trying hard to achieve, just as we can help him by avoiding the explosion of tensions to the world economy out of the euro zone.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

The kind of dichotomies, and the kind of tensions, and the antagonisms from a civil war are still here and they are re emerging now, but for the time being they are being covered under the civility of a country that's still, just about, supposed to be part of the global West and aspiring to this idea of global progress, capitalist euphoria, and development and so on and so forth... (Gelly, Solidarity activist) Here in Greece... it's the civil war syndrome I call it.