Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border.

It is reported that the level of violence has escalated and that the areas most affected are in the Far East.

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

In the last few months of the year the violence escalated.

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

Consequently, the tension in the region has escalated to an alarming proportion.

Tensions are reported to have escalated after Aulehan elders offered what was considered to be a wholly inadequate sum of blood money in compensation.

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

A series of incidents last week escalated tensions along the Blue Line to an alarming degree.

This quickly escalated into a five day war between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.

Sadly, over the past weeks, acts of violence between Israelis and Palestinians have once again multiplied and escalated.

Over two thirds of the urban populations in sub Saharan Africa are between the ages of 12 and 25, and the number of street children has escalated over the past 10 years.

A couple of hours later, the nearby government Election Commission building was set ablaze, and things escalated the following day.

Five years on, rather than subsiding, those problems seem to have escalated, posing serious threats to international peace and security.

As the Japanese war maniacs escalated their war of aggression, they were faced with a shortage of arms and labour.

The claim in the report that Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border cannot be farther from the truth.

In mid 1996, the conflict further escalated, leading to the evacuation of UNHCR staff from Kilinochchi to Mallavi in the Vanni region.

Unfortunately, during January 1997, the number of killings in Rwanda escalated sharply and the general security situation inside the country deteriorated severely.

Unfortunately, in the past six weeks, the Palestinian Authority has escalated its widespread incitement to violence in all of its official media.

26. Many different actors were involved in these processes of tension and unrest which unfortunately all too often escalated into open armed conflicts.

It is clear that the degree of official funding being disbursed in response to debt crises has escalated rapidly and threatens to become unsustainable.

The fresh food supermarket war has escalated, and have become a phenomenal topic in the new retail sector. Just what is new in new retail?

In the recent period, the Georgian authorities have sought repeatedly to focus the attention of the world community on the escalated situation in Abkhazia, Georgia.

Unfortunately, Eritrea's promising start was to be disrupted by the outbreak of a border conflict with Ethiopia in May 1998, which quickly escalated into war.

Over the past three weeks, Israel, the occupying Power, has escalated its military aggression against the Palestine people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

Hostilities in the area escalated in May with armed exchanges between Hizbollah and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and with rocket firing by unidentified armed elements.

Children were particularly vulnerable in situations of war and armed conflict, as physical, mental and sexual violence escalated and social structures and safety nets broke down.

Whatever transpired over the weekend, Mr. Putin has unquestionably escalated in his language toward Ukraine, choosing to use this episode however real it was for some larger aim.

This would mean, for example, that Governments include relevant human rights concerns in implementing policies to eliminate agricultural subsidies or escalated protection against imports from less developed countries.

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.

In the case of public transport, substantial changes in bus fares were effected only after 1973 when operating costs escalated sharply with the increase in the price of petroleum products.

His jealousy, however, escalated he would tie her to a chair, gag her, beat her with a piece of wood and then lock her in the house for the day.

It was observed in this connection that if the mechanism was intended to intervene in conflicts at an early stage before they escalated, the mechanism should be permanent in nature.

Over the first weeks of July there were reports of renewed clashes in Bubanza, Kayanza and Kirundo, while fighting in the troubled southern provinces of Bururi and Makamba escalated significantly.

LRA attacks on civilians and humanitarian workers have escalated, severely undermining our ability to provide relief to millions of people and disrupting the long awaited return of refugees to southern Sudan.

However, in today's armed conflicts, violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have escalated, with tragic consequences for civilians, especially women, children and minorities. As observed by the Secretary General,

77. In response to the need to intensify the struggle against malaria, UNICEF, in collaboration with Governments, donor agencies and other partners, has escalated its effort in malaria prevention and control.

In response to the government's silence, JDC exec has today made a formal request for a special meeting of BMA Council to authorise a rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September.

The long years of war have compounded gender inequalities in the socio political and economic spheres and have escalated the scale and incidence of gender based violence, as well as impunity for such crimes.

In the following days, the violence escalated further, with Israel, breaking the restraint observed in the past few months, resuming its earlier practices of targeted killings with the stated purpose of preventing terrorist operations.

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam. But contrary to common perception, Iraqi Shiites do not form a homogenous block that opposes the supposedly unified Sunnis.

For the past three centuries, humans effects on the global environment have escalated. Most importantly, our emissions of carbon dioxide may cause global climate patterns to depart significantly from their natural course for many millennia to come.

In North Kivu on 26 August, tensions escalated near Rutshuru following repeated clashes between Mayi Mayi elements and ex Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie Goma (RCD G) elements who have yet to participate in the brassage process.

However, due to the dollar rate movements described before, the relative costs escalated and there would not have been adequate budget in the event that a second case would have been submitted to the Tribunal in 2003.

69. During the 1980s, interest in composite materials escalated owing in large measure to the realization that drastic changes in the mechanical, electrical, optical and chemical properties of these materials could be achieved if they were nanocrystalline.