Escalate, Escalation
escalate (verb) -
a. Increase
b. Get worse
c. Conflict increases in intensity
d. Call on a higher level of management to solve a problem.
escalation (noun)
escalate the dispute
a dispute escalates
escalate a conflict
escalate into an open conflict
confrontations escalate
let the situtation escalate
can't let the situation escalate
threaten to escalate
an incident escalates
a problem escalates
labour strikes escalate
escalate out of control
escalate out of all proportion
violence escalates
escalate into violence
escalate the tempo
escalate a customer issue
escalate a customer complaint
escalate to higher level staff
escalate to higher management
have a word with them before you escalate the problem
escalate a war
escalate into a war
escalate into a civil war
escalate into an arms races
escalate into a nuclear war
escalate into a world war
escalate the war on AIDS
costs escalate
drug costs escalate
a tendency can escalate
the amounts of cash involved began to escalate
escalate to dangerous levels
inevitably escalate
escalate into a scandal
escalate rather than curb
her mood could escalate into a screaming rage
Example sentences:
* Costs could escalate past the billion baht mark, if litigation against the company is successful.
* This news could escalate into a big political scandal.
* Without regular maintenance repair bills will escalate dramatically.
* Journalists accused the Thaksin government of harassing the media as complaints escalated over alleged efforts of his administration to curb unfavorable news coverage.
* Every customer service rep has the ability to escalate a customer issue, so when something serious happens, people higher in the management chain will know.
* The procedure in the customer support department is to inform the customer of the status of his case after one day and escalate to higher level staff as appropriate to solve the problem.
* I'd escalate [the problem to the supervisor] it because it's a known problem, they might come, and say change the CPU.
* Well you should have a word with them first, you've got to have a word with them before you escalate the problem to higher management.
* Customer support problems seem to escalate during the weekends for some unknown reason.
* As you approach very high levels of purity and quality, reaching the upper limit, costs will escalate out of all proportion.
* Her mood could escalate into a screaming rage almost without warning.
* If piracy and copying escalate and become endemic, the government may have to take drastic measures.
* Protest leaders would try to escalate the tempo systematically until authorities are no longer in control of the situation.
* Confrontations that begin with stones and rubber-costed steel pellets often escalate into furious exchanges of live fire.
* We can't let the situation escalate so we have to keep talking.
* This week's impasse in negotiations could easily escalate into violence and open conflict.
* Nuclear weapons are unnecessary, divisive and escalate the arms race.
* Spanking children can sometimes escalate to dangerous levels, with parents' losing their tempers and losing control of their actions.
* "Our continuing history of genocides could escalate to suicide of the species." (Source: British National Corpus)
* "The drives can go into the performing arts, transformed into the will to communicate, to wake up an audience, to escalate the level of power being conveyed through the speech, song or dance." (Source: British National Corpus)
* The harsh penalties being given to computer hackers could escalate rather than curb serious crime.
(Note: The sentences above are based on a personal corpus of sentences as well as modified sentences from the British National Corpus: British National Corpus)
