The HIV pandemic continues to escalate.

We must avoid steps that might escalate the situation.

They're trained to think more, to try and de escalate.

And children tend to get into fights which escalate in terms of force.

Any one of those problems could escalate into conflict, thereby threatening life and security.

The war continued to escalate, as was promised by a series of cartel messages discovered in the area.

Such incidents could easily escalate into situations that would compromise military stability and roll back the peace process.

More than half the people now in the world live in cities, and that will just continue to escalate.

The recent dramatic incident in Logoualé shows how volatile the security situation is and how easily violence could escalate further.

Unfortunately, the media were all too often used to exacerbate conflict when tensions between minorities and between minorities and Governments escalate.

Yes, Ahmadinejad will probably find a way to re escalate the conflict. No one can stop Iran from threatening the Strait of Hormuz.

National institutions, if functioning at all, are usually too weak to cope with such situations, which can escalate at an alarming pace if ignored.

Civil society can encourage well targeted locally based action to reduce tension in crises and crucial phases of processes which could escalate out of control.

The level of education is a conclusive factor in female participation rates in the labor force and the rates escalate as the level of education rises.

The proliferation of small arms and light weapons continues to escalate and to undermine the stability and the social and economic fabric of many developing countries.

We feel that the Security Council, through its silence in that regard, has encouraged Eritrea to continue to escalate further and further its hostile operations against the Sudan.

Conventional military balance between Pakistan and India is essential for stability in South Asia, as it will ensure prevention of the use of force, which could escalate unpredictably.

While encouraging the ongoing peace process in those conflict areas, OIC continued to hope that the international community would make efforts to de escalate the tensions in those regions.

Moreover, international and local NGOs, due to their flexibility, outreach and commitment, can respond rapidly to early signs of tensions that have the potential to escalate into a violent conflict.

Such military attacks continue to escalate despite the fact that all Palestinian political groups and organizations have agreed to respect the unilateral ceasefire and have reiterated their commitment to quietness.

I am concerned, that in the absence of concrete action, the situation could escalate and, by intent or as a result of a miscalculation, lead to another round of devastating hostilities.

Calamity can still be averted if the costs of inaction escalate steadily. The worst problems, however, are those with inaction costs that remain invisible for a long time, but increase suddenly and explosively.

Censuring breaches by Israel of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon as well as persistent violations by Israel of the airspace and territorial waters of Lebanon, which escalate tension in the region,

Such gaps have contributed greatly to the problem if they are not addressed, the problem is likely to escalate, especially with the expected influx of additional troops to be deployed in the country.

Economists predict that strikes and unrest will escalate in Bangladesh, and also in Vietnam, with even investment bankers quoted by The Financial Times calling wages for women garment workers in these countries unsustainably low.

He will thus pass the war on to his successor. This might be advantageous for Bush s domestic purposes, but as a foreign policy, it will only escalate the risk of a Middle East explosion.

Economists predict that strikes and unrest will escalate in Bangladesh, and also in Vietnam, with even investment bankers quoted by The Financial Times calling wages for women garment workers in these countries unsustainably low.

The Security Council, in its resolution 1553 (2004), its latest resolution on UNIFIL, also highlighted those violations, characterizing them, in paragraph 7, as continuing violations that could further escalate the tension in the region.

An early warning system' as part of this network, helping to defuse local conflicts before they escalate, as well as providing a channel for moral and material support to civil society groups facing repression.

In recent years there have been a number of new African initiatives to resolve disputes that have long plagued particular areas or to tackle new conflicts before they can expand and escalate beyond control.

Because of ongoing conflicts and natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and severe weather patterns that cause extensive damage for vulnerable populations in various parts of the world, the demand for humanitarian assistance continues to escalate.

There is no doubt that these phenomena constitute the root causes of many contemporary conflicts, which sometimes escalate into gross human rights violations committed on a large scale and leading to ethnic cleansing and even genocide.

If the conflict is allowed to escalate it will inevitably begin to take on a life of its own, but neighbouring States and other external actors are likely still to wield considerable influence with the protagonists.

With the situation threatening to escalate further, both sides need to contain the conflict quickly and restore the status quo. Indeed, the situation is all the more volatile in view of the political transition now underway in China.

Europe s leaders claim that they want to avoid giving Russia reason to escalate its war on Ukraine. But that is already happening, and Ukraine s fight against Russia is, after all, a defense of core European values and, indeed, of Europe itself.

Should Iran manage to become a nuclear power, the Saudis existential fears would dramatically escalate. More generally, the currency of conventional military power in the Middle East would largely lose its value, inevitably resulting in a regional nuclear arms race.

But if they leave, it will also escalate, only faster. So the real question is how to get to the point where Iraq has a police force and army that can be trusted to maintain law as well as order.

On the contrary, many of them are ostensibly America s close allies. So why does the US continue to back a deadly rebellion in a civil war that is continuing to escalate dangerously, now to the point of chemical weapons attacks?

The police and knowing because I've actually helped to train police police, in particular Western jurisdictions at least, are trained to de escalate force, to try and avoid using force wherever possible, and to use lethal force only as an absolute last resort.

Finally, there is a similar risk that Asia s terrestrial and maritime territorial disagreements (starting with the disputes between China and Japan) could escalate into outright military conflict. Such geopolitical risks were they to materialize would have a systemic economic and financial impact.

Welcoming the launching of the South Asia earthquake 2005 flash appeal by the United Nations on 11 October 2005 and the continuous engagement by the Secretary General to escalate the global relief efforts for the urgent and immediate needs of the affected people,

Welcoming also the launching of the South Asia earthquake 2005 flash appeal by the United Nations on 11 October 2005 and the continuous engagement by the Secretary General to escalate the global relief efforts for the urgent and immediate needs of the affected people,

But America is not in a strong position to go any further. Its moral authority has been compromised in the Bush years, it cannot put more troops on the ground to defend Georgian sovereignty, and, even if it could, doing so would escalate the crisis.

It is not only in central banking, of course, that we see the role of historical experience in shaping policymaking. President Lyndon Johnson, when deciding to escalate US intervention in Vietnam, drew an analogy with Munich, when the failure to respond to Hitler s aggression had catastrophic consequences.

In an effort to de escalate political tensions, the International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT) presented to the Ad Hoc Commission on power sharing (established by the Transitional Government in June 2004) a series of proposals, which allowed negotiations between the Congolese components to resume.