Well focused development programmes could lay the groundwork for prevention and help to stem escalating violence.

The news of the currently escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territories was therefore highly regrettable and distressing.

I think it's safe to say that all of us here are deeply concerned about the escalating violence in our daily lives.

Those incidents clearly demonstrate that there is a real risk of escalating violence and reprisals that could have destabilizing repercussions throughout the region.

The Escalating Arab Wars

And it's an escalating problem too.

The suffering it undergoes daily is escalating.

Political transitions were marred by violence in some African countries, prompting good offices efforts by the United Nations and others to prevent disputes from escalating into armed conflicts.

The problem abides, and the most conspicuous theme in the present report is the continuing trend of escalating potential violence in a pattern of protection of entrenched vested interests.

The Israeli Government clearly wished to sabotage the peace process by refusing to honour its pledges and by escalating the tension in the region through acts of violence and intimidation.

Sunni ministers who had been boycotting the government since last year have returned to their posts. Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter sectarian alliances.

Nevertheless, the nuclear threat may now be escalating, rather than declining.

Rapid change in eastern Europe has contributed to escalating drug abuse.

Within the country, there are concerns about escalating ethnic and religious differences.

With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence. We can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.

Women also suffered disproportionately from the effects of escalating civil and ethnic conflicts.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, tensions are either escalating or are brewing dangerously.

There will be no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political settlement of the Palestine question. In fact, the prospects for engaging in negotiations are better now than they were a few months ago.

Yet, the illicit production, trafficking and consumption of narcotic drugs had been escalating steadily.

Escalating globalization is neither a recipe for enhancing global welfare, nor a cure all.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects. Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities.

BAGHDAD Iraqi women s organizations and international observers point to an escalating war against women in Iraq, aided by the widespread chaos and lawlessness under the US occupation. In addition to violence by US troops inside and outside of prisons, women in Iraq face daily violence from militants under the guise of religion and liberation.

Unresolved boundary issues, squabbles over oil revenues, the ongoing conflict in Darfur, escalating tribal violence in the south and generally weak state capacity across all of Sudan complete a very depressing picture of the state of affairs in Africa's largest country.

This survey almost didn t show that the escalating global trade frictions shook the confidence of large manufacturers.

That was the beginning of an escalating U.S. involvement there that we do not pay for at the pump.

My envoys used their good offices in seeking peace agreements or in trying to prevent disputes from violently escalating.

Our debates are unfolding against a backdrop of escalating oil prices, whose worst fallout we may have yet to see.

United Nations staff members continue to face serious and often escalating threats in carrying out their duties in the field.

The international community must shake off its political inertia and take all possible steps to prevent armed conflicts from escalating.

Over the past few decades, Pakistan has been obliged to respond to the escalating steps of proliferation by our neighbour.

Remember, violence begets violence.

During the reporting period, progress was made by the Joint Verification Mechanism and the Tripartite Commission in de escalating regional tensions.

The forces conniving to oppose democracy responded by escalating the breakdown in the constitutional order and the legitimate exercise of power.

With the escalating rates of HIV, the crisis for children will persist for decades, even as prevention and treatment programmes expand.

In view of the escalating cost of disasters, the current response oriented approach must be replaced by prevention and mitigation activities.

The escalating production and acquisition of armaments by some States have created insecurity and instability in several regions of the world.

With these endeavours, the Greek Cypriot side has demonstrated that it is bent on escalating the conflict rather than resolving it.

Palestinian officials, however, blamed the bomb on extremist Jews, stating that the incident was part of escalating anti Palestinian violence in Jerusalem. The timing of the bomb and the place reveals the party standing behind it, which is the settlers , charged Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Secretary General of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet.

Violence only generates more violence.

Those requirements have ramifications for protecting the global climate, ensuring sustainability of energy resources and restraining the escalating spiral of fuel prices.

Also, the pattern of relatively high and escalating tariffs on processed commodities in developed countries acted as a significant barrier to diversification.

The need for food aid has greatly increased due to escalating insecurity and drought, which occurred during the cultivation period in 1997.

Violence against women and domestic violence

This generates violence and counter violence.

And that rate has been escalating at the same rate as children not walking to school anymore, again, because of our development patterns.