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.

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.

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

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

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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.

If the ball costs 10, the bat costs...

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This costs me money, ladies, it costs me money!

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.

Common staff costs Other travel costs (c) International contractual personnel

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And it all costs money. Everything costs money, huh, Max?

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.

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