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There have been fledgling groups gathering since 8th of August but it escalated and got much worse today. More people joined in huge numbers and there were clashes with police and there was violence on both sides. Some people lost their lives but I don't know the count, the economic situation in the country is really bad, the government says it is due to Ukraine and coronavirus crisis but to date youth unemployment is very high. There are a lot of disgruntled young people in the country. – Morris Marah	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That's where we went back to the fact that our culture really is an in-office culture and we think those informal conversations and the face-to-face interactions are important to who we are, and we've seen a significant increase in collaboration. It's also de-escalated some concerns and tensions and some group dynamics by being in person. – Cassandra Pratt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I applaud the way the motorcyclist handled the situation, after his life was clearly threatened, he lawfully defended himself and then de-escalated the situation.The offender is lucky he was not shot. – Sheriff Rick Staly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Let me reiterate, there was no fight, there was no argument, this escalated out of nothing, and very quickly, it was an attack, it was an assault, and I did file a police report. – Flint School	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But at every step, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has escalated now three weeks and Putin's invasion, the reality, on the ground is evolving. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is very little that you can see that would make sense for this war to be escalated between two nuclear powers. – Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What it comes down to, very candidly, is intestinal fortitude, the ability to have guts to make a hard decision instead of wringing your hands in a negative manner, and we're very concerned about escalation. Look, the guy who's escalated is Vladimir Putin. That's the one who started the war. That's the one who's pushed himself into Ukraine. That's the one who has put the civilian population at enormous risk. He's actually conducting war crimes. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not quite so simple as stick it in the traditional basket of escalate, de-escalate, he did that by putting 190,000 troops on the border. He could have de-escalated and got everything he wanted pretty much. He didn't do it. – Dan Hoffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The situation in Ukraine escalated a lot last couple of days, it's hard not to think about it, but I try to focus on the fight and not follow the news, my family is there in the middle of everything. But I am going to have my people there and my family is safe. – Viktor Postol	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The small-scale theft of food escalated into mass looting of warehouses across Kombolcha in recent days, reportedly by elements of the Tigrayan forces and some members of the local population, such harassment of humanitarian staff by armed forces is unacceptable. It undermines the ability of the United Nations and all of our humanitarian partners to deliver assistance when it is most needed. – Stephane Dujarric	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do believe that leadership is taking this very, very seriously, i was with the Speaker in Glasgow last week, but this is something that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and I and I think most of House leadership are taking extremely seriously especially now that this is an established pattern that has escalated from the Republican party. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Excessive and unnecessary force can happen when situations could have been handled in cooler manner but is unnecessarily and unduly escalated. One way it happens, someone shows up and the way they present is in a way that raises the temperature, this situation could've involved no force but ends up involving significant force. That's unnecessary, excessive. Lots of situations weren't criminal, just problematic policing. – Phil Weiser	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What makes it so gut-wrenching is that these innocent people died and they were randomly picked out. This wasn’t a fight that went bad, this wasn’t a disturbance that escalated, when you see a 3-month-old, little, beautiful baby boy deceased in the arms of his mother, where she’s trying to protect him, and she’s murdered, he’s murdered, and his daddy’s murdered — that’s pretty rough. – Bryan Riley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It should not have escalated from a suspicious call to my son dying, i should be getting grandbabies from him. – Lawayne Mosley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This isn't to say we conclusively disproved any human involvement, in our scenario, modern humans settled on each landmass after proboscidean extinction risk had already escalated. An ingenious, highly adaptable social predator like our species could be the perfect black swan occurrence to deliver the coup de grâce. – Zhang Hanwen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I lived here for 14yearsand I've never seen a problem with law enforcement and residents in the neighborhood, the law enforcement thatwerecalled for any incident in the past were very polite and respectful. We never had anything that escalated to gunfire. – Donovon Brinson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It should have never, ever escalated the way it did. – Katie Wright	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In many cases, hospitals have escalated their contingency plans to the maximum and gone beyond. – Marta Temido	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The excess pressure in hospitals is real, in many cases, hospitals have escalated their contingency plans to the maximum and gone beyond. – Marta Temido	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Since at least March 2017, local authorities dramatically escalated their decades-long campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Kyrgyz. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to. – Joe Gamaldi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They did everything that everyone across this country is asking for law enforcement to do, they de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to. – Joe Gamaldi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As a result of a misunderstanding and miscommunication between myself and some hotel guests, the situation needlessly and regrettably escalated. – Anthony Michael Hall	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed. – Robert Brown	Found on CNN 3 years ago

There have been fledgling groups gathering since 8th of August but it escalated and got much worse today. More people joined in huge numbers and there were clashes with police and there was violence on both sides. Some people lost their lives but I don't know the count, the economic situation in the country is really bad, the government says it is due to Ukraine and coronavirus crisis but to date youth unemployment is very high. There are a lot of disgruntled young people in the country.

– Morris Marah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's where we went back to the fact that our culture really is an in-office culture and we think those informal conversations and the face-to-face interactions are important to who we are, and we've seen a significant increase in collaboration. It's also de-escalated some concerns and tensions and some group dynamics by being in person.

– Cassandra Pratt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I applaud the way the motorcyclist handled the situation, after his life was clearly threatened, he lawfully defended himself and then de-escalated the situation.The offender is lucky he was not shot.

– Sheriff Rick Staly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let me reiterate, there was no fight, there was no argument, this escalated out of nothing, and very quickly, it was an attack, it was an assault, and I did file a police report.

– Flint School

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But at every step, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has escalated now three weeks and Putin's invasion, the reality, on the ground is evolving.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is very little that you can see that would make sense for this war to be escalated between two nuclear powers.

– Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What it comes down to, very candidly, is intestinal fortitude, the ability to have guts to make a hard decision instead of wringing your hands in a negative manner, and we're very concerned about escalation. Look, the guy who's escalated is Vladimir Putin. That's the one who started the war. That's the one who's pushed himself into Ukraine. That's the one who has put the civilian population at enormous risk. He's actually conducting war crimes.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not quite so simple as stick it in the traditional basket of escalate, de-escalate, he did that by putting 190,000 troops on the border. He could have de-escalated and got everything he wanted pretty much. He didn't do it.

– Dan Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The situation in Ukraine escalated a lot last couple of days, it's hard not to think about it, but I try to focus on the fight and not follow the news, my family is there in the middle of everything. But I am going to have my people there and my family is safe.

– Viktor Postol

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The small-scale theft of food escalated into mass looting of warehouses across Kombolcha in recent days, reportedly by elements of the Tigrayan forces and some members of the local population, such harassment of humanitarian staff by armed forces is unacceptable. It undermines the ability of the United Nations and all of our humanitarian partners to deliver assistance when it is most needed.

– Stephane Dujarric

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do believe that leadership is taking this very, very seriously, i was with the Speaker in Glasgow last week, but this is something that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and I and I think most of House leadership are taking extremely seriously especially now that this is an established pattern that has escalated from the Republican party.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Excessive and unnecessary force can happen when situations could have been handled in cooler manner but is unnecessarily and unduly escalated. One way it happens, someone shows up and the way they present is in a way that raises the temperature, this situation could've involved no force but ends up involving significant force. That's unnecessary, excessive. Lots of situations weren't criminal, just problematic policing.

– Phil Weiser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What makes it so gut-wrenching is that these innocent people died and they were randomly picked out. This wasn’t a fight that went bad, this wasn’t a disturbance that escalated, when you see a 3-month-old, little, beautiful baby boy deceased in the arms of his mother, where she’s trying to protect him, and she’s murdered, he’s murdered, and his daddy’s murdered — that’s pretty rough.

– Bryan Riley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It should not have escalated from a suspicious call to my son dying, i should be getting grandbabies from him.

– Lawayne Mosley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This isn't to say we conclusively disproved any human involvement, in our scenario, modern humans settled on each landmass after proboscidean extinction risk had already escalated. An ingenious, highly adaptable social predator like our species could be the perfect black swan occurrence to deliver the coup de grâce.

– Zhang Hanwen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I lived here for 14yearsand I've never seen a problem with law enforcement and residents in the neighborhood, the law enforcement thatwerecalled for any incident in the past were very polite and respectful. We never had anything that escalated to gunfire.

– Donovon Brinson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It should have never, ever escalated the way it did.

– Katie Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In many cases, hospitals have escalated their contingency plans to the maximum and gone beyond.

– Marta Temido

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The excess pressure in hospitals is real, in many cases, hospitals have escalated their contingency plans to the maximum and gone beyond.

– Marta Temido

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Since at least March 2017, local authorities dramatically escalated their decades-long campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Kyrgyz.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to.

– Joe Gamaldi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They did everything that everyone across this country is asking for law enforcement to do, they de-escalated and retreated for 15 minutes -- 15 minutes ! They used every non-lethal option available. Multiple bean bag shotgun rounds until they ran out. They used multiple Tasers all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully that he did not adhere to.

– Joe Gamaldi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a result of a misunderstanding and miscommunication between myself and some hotel guests, the situation needlessly and regrettably escalated.

– Anthony Michael Hall

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed.

– Robert Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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