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It just escalates. It escalates. – Alex Murdaugh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At this stage, I don’t think this scandal alone will prevent President Biden from pursuing a second term, but it weakens one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump if he is the GOP nominee, the biggest risk for Democrats is that it could demoralize their voters, especially if the DOJ’s investigation escalates. – Giancarlo Sopo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today’s decision dramatically escalates the stakes of the 2022 elections, and we’re making sure Americans have the tools they need to channel their anger into action, this on-the-ground organizing work will help elect Democrats who will fight to protect women’s right to make their own health care decisions and ensure the GOP’s cruel agenda to making abortion illegal and punish women is front and center for voters across the Senate battlegrounds. – Christie Roberts	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Preemptive sanctions are bad. The whole idea of sanctions are their deterrent effect. We want to make the calculation that President Putin faces one in which he has an off-ramp so he can de-escalate, but if he escalates, he faces significant negative repercussions. – Jake Auchincloss	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Each passing month further escalates the risk of losing an ever increasing amount of rental housing, ultimately jeopardizing the availability of safe, sustainable and affordable housing for all Americans, flawed eviction moratoriums leave renters with insurmountable debt and housing providers holding the bag as our nation's housing affordability crisis spirals into a housing affordability disaster. – Bob Pinnegar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The problem is that they were a little naive about, in the case you brought up, allowing social workers to speak alone with their kids, sometimes social workers show up at the school so parents don't find out until after the fact and that can start a scenario that very quickly escalates to a threat to the parents' custody. – Laura Ingraham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If I start freaking or if I can't handle Officer Maciejewski or handle my cool it just escalates everything for the family. – Officer Maciejewski	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's been a noticeable change over the last month, it's been fairly clear that the two presidents would like to have a positive meeting with some kind of positive, forward-looking outcome that hopefully de-escalates. – Jeremie Waterman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis. – Hans Kristensen	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We can probably say that the trade war has officially started, if this ends at $34 billion, it will have a marginal effect on both economies, but if it escalates to $500 billion like Trump said, then it's going to have a big impact for both countries. – Chen Feixiang	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Of course we're worried if this escalates. – Tom Enders	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If any of these geopolitical issues escalates, then things will get difficult, we're trading from quarter to quarter. – Stephan Gais	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
An increase in demand for services this summer would not surprise us as news of Zika virus escalates. – Ron Harrison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not too beneficial to society if a disagreement in one company escalates to a point where the entire country's exports and imports are hampered. – Pekka Stenqvist	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If heavy weapons are withdrawn on our eastern border under the Minsk deal, then fine. But if the situation escalates, then we will again raise the issue of sophisticated defensive weaponry with our western partners, we are not going to attack anybody, but we would like to protect ourselves. – Yehor Bozhok	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Very clearly, you have a huge humanitarian risk if the conflict escalates, we are ready if it happens. But at the same time, I would rather express some pragmatic optimism that the Minsk process will yield results. But if it doesn't, we have taken contingency measures. – Neal Walker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As their capabilities in the maritime space expand, it means the range and lethality of (Southeast Asian) strike forces will also increase, if there is a confrontation and it escalates, there is a potential for a more lethal conflict. – Tim Huxley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This news has not made the oversupply go away. The upside potential is limited unless something escalates. We need to see how this unfolds over the next couple of days. – Ole Hansen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Geopolitical risk like this has been on the back burner for a while because we've been focussing on global oversupply, this news has not made the oversupply go away. The upside potential is limited unless something escalates. We need to see how this unfolds over the next couple of days. – Ole Hansen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

It just escalates. It escalates.

– Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At this stage, I don’t think this scandal alone will prevent President Biden from pursuing a second term, but it weakens one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump if he is the GOP nominee, the biggest risk for Democrats is that it could demoralize their voters, especially if the DOJ’s investigation escalates.

– Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today’s decision dramatically escalates the stakes of the 2022 elections, and we’re making sure Americans have the tools they need to channel their anger into action, this on-the-ground organizing work will help elect Democrats who will fight to protect women’s right to make their own health care decisions and ensure the GOP’s cruel agenda to making abortion illegal and punish women is front and center for voters across the Senate battlegrounds.

– Christie Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Preemptive sanctions are bad. The whole idea of sanctions are their deterrent effect. We want to make the calculation that President Putin faces one in which he has an off-ramp so he can de-escalate, but if he escalates, he faces significant negative repercussions.

– Jake Auchincloss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Each passing month further escalates the risk of losing an ever increasing amount of rental housing, ultimately jeopardizing the availability of safe, sustainable and affordable housing for all Americans, flawed eviction moratoriums leave renters with insurmountable debt and housing providers holding the bag as our nation's housing affordability crisis spirals into a housing affordability disaster.

– Bob Pinnegar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The problem is that they were a little naive about, in the case you brought up, allowing social workers to speak alone with their kids, sometimes social workers show up at the school so parents don't find out until after the fact and that can start a scenario that very quickly escalates to a threat to the parents' custody.

– Laura Ingraham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If I start freaking or if I can't handle Officer Maciejewski or handle my cool it just escalates everything for the family.

– Officer Maciejewski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's been a noticeable change over the last month, it's been fairly clear that the two presidents would like to have a positive meeting with some kind of positive, forward-looking outcome that hopefully de-escalates.

– Jeremie Waterman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

– Hans Kristensen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We can probably say that the trade war has officially started, if this ends at $34 billion, it will have a marginal effect on both economies, but if it escalates to $500 billion like Trump said, then it's going to have a big impact for both countries.

– Chen Feixiang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Of course we're worried if this escalates.

– Tom Enders

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If any of these geopolitical issues escalates, then things will get difficult, we're trading from quarter to quarter.

– Stephan Gais

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

An increase in demand for services this summer would not surprise us as news of Zika virus escalates.

– Ron Harrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not too beneficial to society if a disagreement in one company escalates to a point where the entire country's exports and imports are hampered.

– Pekka Stenqvist

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If heavy weapons are withdrawn on our eastern border under the Minsk deal, then fine. But if the situation escalates, then we will again raise the issue of sophisticated defensive weaponry with our western partners, we are not going to attack anybody, but we would like to protect ourselves.

– Yehor Bozhok

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Very clearly, you have a huge humanitarian risk if the conflict escalates, we are ready if it happens. But at the same time, I would rather express some pragmatic optimism that the Minsk process will yield results. But if it doesn't, we have taken contingency measures.

– Neal Walker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As their capabilities in the maritime space expand, it means the range and lethality of (Southeast Asian) strike forces will also increase, if there is a confrontation and it escalates, there is a potential for a more lethal conflict.

– Tim Huxley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This news has not made the oversupply go away. The upside potential is limited unless something escalates. We need to see how this unfolds over the next couple of days.

– Ole Hansen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Geopolitical risk like this has been on the back burner for a while because we've been focussing on global oversupply, this news has not made the oversupply go away. The upside potential is limited unless something escalates. We need to see how this unfolds over the next couple of days.

– Ole Hansen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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