If there's a breakdown in the parent-child relationship, an escalating game of cat and mouse involving the phone could escalate. |
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The silly, liberating antics expected on such occasions escalate at intervals into orgiastic nastiness. |
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More studies into the feasibility of a waste tunnel will cause yet more delays and cause costs to escalate further. |
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As the number of pop-up ads continue to escalate, even mundane activities have been slowed to a snail's pace. |
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His danger level continues to escalate toward an explosive season cliffhanger. |
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I have reservations about it because I think it could trigger another Cold War and escalate the arms race once again. |
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The cost of the Games has risen to at least 6 billion euros, and many observers expect the costs to escalate even more. |
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Things escalate when a SWAT team follow the police onto the scene and the macho head officer threatens to take the place by storm. |
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It is an example of how costs can escalate with private finance initiatives. |
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Not surprisingly petrol prices increased during August as world oil prices continued to escalate. |
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In turn, the increased prices caused health costs to escalate in a vicious circle. |
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Union sources also indicated that failure to reinstall him to his board position will see industrial action escalate by the middle of next week. |
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Most are pessimistic that a sustainable deal will be reached and expect the dispute to escalate. |
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He will likely sense that you are drawing away from him and escalate his abusiveness and manipulativeness. |
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Police said the marksman grew concerned the situation would escalate and others could be hurt. |
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Inflation and other building costs could cause the costs to escalate if there was significant delay in construction. |
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Last week representatives of the 360 pilots who have been working to rule decided to escalate the action. |
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The new parliament remains the centre of controversy as building costs escalate. |
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If the firefighters persevere with their eight-day strike this week, then matters could escalate rapidly. |
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When you've made your point and the other party has made his point, please do not escalate it to a never-ending heated discussion. |
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Sources say they were kept quiet in order not to escalate the row with Russia. |
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The union had planned to escalate the industrial action countrywide this week but deferred this after talks were arranged. |
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I am referring to the penalties that quickly escalate as soon as a parent defaults on child support payments. |
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Boards and CEOs have been shortsighted in allowing both severance and pay to escalate without defendable reasons. |
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If this had no affect, we were going to escalate to civil disobedience, followed by occupations. |
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Did the campaign escalate to civil disobedience, mass noncooperation or some form of mass direct action? |
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I think teachers in Victoria are willing to continue and escalate job action if that's what's required in order to get a fair deal. |
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By the film's violent climax, we are grimly aware of how immature exploits can quickly escalate to tragedy. |
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I'm embarrassed in front of all these people that two grown men allowed a situation like this to escalate the way it did. |
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Our group largely agreed but added that the police response to our actions would play a decisive role in how far things would escalate. |
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Their return has re-ignited fears that the bitter feud will escalate again. |
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Therefore, there is the possibility that a relatively small problem may rapidly escalate into a crisis. |
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It is unfortunate that their stress levels seem to escalate around Christmas and New Year's Day. |
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The producer is then responsible for quickly finding any problems before they escalate and potatoes have to be destroyed. |
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Newropeans is fully aware that neither the USA, neither the EU has any interest to escalate till such an extent. |
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Indeed, the urgency of this matter and the gravity of the possible consequences if this situation continues to escalate cannot be understated. |
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As operating costs continue to escalate, the NCC is increasingly at risk of not being able to deliver its mandate with existing funding. |
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Timely intervention by management in the Region ensured that the incidents did not escalate and that more serious violations were averted. |
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The other reason you may not file a petition for divorce in a marriage situation is that it may escalate the problems between the parties. |
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But resistance to the antiterror law, ID system and emergency powers threatened to escalate with protesters taking to the streets against the plans. |
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The situation is destabilizing the region and no one wants to see the violence escalate. |
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There have been numerous complaints of the orca rubbing against vessels and floatplanes and there is a growing concern that his behaviour may escalate aggressively. |
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But the report by two public health experts suggests the Glasgow boil water notice, issued when the cryptosporidium count started to escalate rapidly, was unnecessary. |
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They have threatened to escalate the dispute by building roadblocks to stop tankers carrying fuel to the Kutubu oil operations and the Porgera gold mine. |
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The enactment of the law is going to greatly aggravate the already strained cross-strait relations and seriously escalate the danger of the outbreak of war. |
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Beef prices are now at a twenty-year low while costs continue to escalate. |
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The costs continue to escalate for the country and its people. |
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Over time, the rent payment would escalate as different parcels on the 26 acres are completed. |
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This cost is transferred to shipping companies through congestion charges which escalate transport cost in Africa. |
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These type of images do not cause eating disorders but they escalate and exacerbate existing conditions. |
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On college campuses, the self-pride in those programs will continue to escalate. |
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Please note that recipients are assessed regularly and a decision is made to de-escalate or escalate their intervention levels if required. |
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But it is one thing to air such differences in a framework of constructive give-and-take and another to escalate differences of opinion into an adversarial relationship. |
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I think it would be wrong of us to allow the use of open coordination to escalate to the point of its being used in every possible area. |
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All the while we have begrudgingly made do with trade sanctions and the hope that the situation would not escalate. |
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The conflict may unfold as a simple war of words, or it may escalate to armed confrontation with massive loss of life. |
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I fear that the crisis in this utterly impoverished country will escalate and thus make it ungovernable. |
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Formal complaints often escalate disputes so that they become evermore difficult to resolve. |
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The most important thing, he and these experts agreed, was finding an environment where slights never escalate to violence. |
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In fact, the descent into barbarity will continue and in all likelihood, escalate. |
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The central authorities decided not to retaliate, so as not to escalate the situation. |
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In the event that the occupation does not immediately end, LSE will have no alternative but to escalate this to legal proceedings. |
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Often the police don't respond fast enough to deal with the issues, so they easily escalate. |
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You're responsible for EVERYTHING and no longer have a manager to escalate your issues to. |
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The affair threatened to escalate into an international legal battle between the Germans and the Japanese. |
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We know from personal, painful experience that problems only escalate as a result. |
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The way we do that is by taking away their freedom to commit such crimes and making the penalties for subsequent offences escalate in severity. |
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Analyze your typical reaction to stress and start changing those responses that escalate, not minimize, the effects. |
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Allergic diseases negatively impact quality of life and escalate healthcare costs. |
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Multi-task more easily by instantly chatting with multiple users with the option to escalate to a full remote control session. |
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Since the stream of available information continues to grow and workplace tasks become more complex, brain overload conditions may also escalate. |
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They escalate your issues in the right direction and as high as necessary-leading to a speedy resolution. |
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Option B would require a willingness by Washington to escalate the conflict, much as it did as it negotiated its withdrawal from Vietnam. |
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The transition of the village will likely continue and will escalate the problems of traffic and parking. |
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In fact, while we meet here, violence is continuing to escalate and the number of victims is increasing by the hour, if not the minute. |
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It does, and certainly has, helped to escalate the crisis by having this militaristic response to it. |
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Washington, in particular, has been loath to do anything that might escalate. |
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Since Sunday, senior U.S. officials have publicly warned Russia not to escalate the already delicate situation in the Ukraine. |
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Republicans should not use this as an excuse to escalate further, now that the main threat of retaliation has been removed. |
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There are several verbal confrontations between the two that escalate throughout the film. |
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They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. |
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As might be imagined, this seeking of justice would often escalate into a private vendetta and eventually into a blood feud between families or tribes. |
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If Rwanda does cross the border in response, it would significantly escalate the war and humanitarian crisis. |
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Thus, it appeared that any minor conflict might quickly escalate into a nuclear contest and lead to the destruction of much of Europe in the process. |
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When the PKK terrorism started to escalate in 1984, the official state propaganda gave greater emphasis to Nevruz as a common denominator. |
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Why would the government have allowed the brinkmanship to escalate to this level before bringing these two parties together to find a resolution that might have avoided the situation in which we now find ourselves? |
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I have discovered a tendency to escalate this situation unjustifiably, also fueled by political and xenophobic statements uttered by certain politicians. |
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The human tragedy of this complex, multi-dimensional conflict continues to escalate, with devastating consequences for the most vulnerable: mothers and their children. |
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Calais was within the range of RAF aircraft based in Britain and the air battle began to escalate. |
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Disease, poor harvests and the growing demand for tobacco lands caused hostilities to escalate. |
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He fears those costs will escalate if his workers decide to unionize. |
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Water can also cause or escalate conflicts between communities in a local or national basin, or in transboundary basins shared by more than one country. |
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This type of response is indicative of their intent to persevere along military lines and may represent a move to escalate violence to accomplish their main objective. |
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Effective conflict management structures should be established to ensure that electoral disputes are handled amicably and dealt with early enough before they escalate into violent conflict. |
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It is really astounding that as we escalate the degradation to our environment, regulations covering some of these very harmful gas guzzling vehicles like SUVs will not even come into effect for another seven years. |
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The foreign secretary rushed to the county amid fears the mounting violence in the North Kivu region could escalate to full civil war. |
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Second, ethnopolitical disputes escalate into protracted communal conflicts usually due to failures of leadership and political imagination on both sides combined with international inattentiveness. |
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The cost of maintaining provincial quarantine and poorhouse facilities began to escalate in the 1840s, just as the bottom was falling out of the provincial economy. |
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However a system of publicity, Ensor argues, had to continue to escalate to maintain its high visibility in the media. |
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Negative imagination can often trigger improper and badly timed responses that may be self-destructive or could even escalate into an uncontrollable response endangering the people closest to you. |
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When I discuss it with them, the cost always comes up, the incompetence on the part of the Liberal administration of the day in allowing the cost to escalate to such a degree. |
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During this time tension between the Albanian and Serbian communities continued to escalate. |
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My son's poor decision to consume alcohol that night was unfortunate but thankfully, it never had a chance to escalate into something that had the potential to be far more tragic. |
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The SFO also indicates that it was the intervention of the Orkney authorities which caused the cost of quotas to escalate and the development of the market for quotas. |
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Should allies be attacked, or in the event of crises and conflicts which might escalate into an actual threat to allies, Germany's obligation to render assistance will apply. |
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A recent incident in Nimba County underscored the potential for these types of disputes to escalate into violence that could destabilize the rural areas. |
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As cases of desecration and attacks on places of worship escalate in France, and particularly in Alsace, the Commissioner recommends the adoption of effective measures. |
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You will all be familiar with the kind of headlines we see when conflicts of this kind escalate to a point where people abduct their own children. |
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It is therefore no surprise that while resources for aid and development assistance continue to plummet, military expenditure continues to escalate. |
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This is a continuous source of tension, which could easily escalate. |
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In other words, to resolve the cyberbullying situation, you need to address it, but not get involved in further exchanges with the bully, which may escalate the situation. |
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Anyway, as a result of this hokum, we are now embroiled in an unwinnable war without end, but which may escalate to threaten each and every one of us. |
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When the dirty tricks escalate from annoying to terrifying, May's secret sideline as the publisher of a line of sexy romance novels comes into play. |
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The flooding situation in Bangkok continued to escalate on Sunday with floodwater spreading in the northern and western areas of the Thai capital. |
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Food relief experts warn that July is also the month prefamine conditions reported throughout North Korea are likely to escalate into mass starvation. |
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But that would just escalate an unwinnable war, argued Anthony Kerwin. |
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