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We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly. – Leah Brogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What North Korea is doing is completely wrong, they have been escalating nuclear and missile threats, and threatening the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. – Park Jin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are excited to see Kathy Hochul finally served a plate of humble pie, and we are fully prepared to continue the fight should she again attempt to disarm the citizens of her state at a time when her party’s policies are only escalating the danger that everyday citizens face. – Erich Pratt	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
For teachers and for students, what this amounts to is an escalating campaign of censorship. A dramatically increased chilling effect that is leading to all kinds of negative outcomes within the classroom. – Jeremy Young	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Escalating fines, more compliance reports, more granular controls and restrictions on their lines of business, or a requirement to get advertisements pre-approved by the agency, or excluding them from certain types of transactions. – Megan Gray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Pelosi's Taiwan visit is tainting sentiment today. And amid escalating tensions in Taiwan Strait and deepening worries about a global economic slowdown, investors are diving headlong into Stephen Innes bonds, no party wants a real war, but the risk of mishap or even aggressive war game escalation is real, which could always lead to a tactical mistake. – Stephen Innes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Things are escalating in a very concerning way. And it was happening across the country, but we started to see very targeted, draconian anti-trans bills introduced into the Minnesota legislature. – Leigh Finke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Only a very small fraction of disaster spending is committed to preparedness and resilience building. We would expect to see a big shift in this ratio to see a much bigger focus on preparedness given the escalating risk of climate-fuelled disasters. – Amanda McKenzie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> Berlin/London( CNN Business) Europe's biggest economy is now officially running short of natural gas and is escalating a crisis plan to preserve supplies ahead of winter as Russia turns off the taps. Germany on Thursday activated the second phase of its three-stage gas emergency program, taking it one step closer to rationing supplies to industry — a step that would deliver a huge blow to the manufacturing heart of its economy.'' Gas is from now on in short supply in Germany. – Robert Habeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think where the US stands is wanting to provide all of the assistance that United States can to the Ukrainians without escalating the situation to a point where the war spills over or, frankly, goes in a terrible direction. – Christine Wormuth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The EU is keen to be able to keep escalating The EU response according to developments in Ukraine, if Brussels now enforces maximum sanctions, how does it react to a further escalation by Moscow ? – Henning Gloystein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rising inflation, escalating geopolitical uncertainty and the Federal Reserve's actions are driving rates higher and weakening consumers' purchasing power, in short, the rise in mortgage rates, combined with continued house price appreciation, is increasing monthly mortgage payments and quickly affecting homebuyers' ability to keep up with the market. – Sam Khater	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The secretary-general has been in constant contact with numerous leaders and parties. Among them are heads of the governments and senior leaders of Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Turkey, Israel. Finland, France, Russia, and many others. from the very first day of the conflict, he made an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation to cease fighting. As he has been emphasizing, countless innocent people – including women and children – have been killed, and this escalating violence is totally unacceptable. The protection of civilians must be priority number one. – Clifford May	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You see crime escalating. It’s growing. The philosophy of doing what you want to do and not fit in is absolutely growing here in the metropolitan area. Even though the city of Saint Louis talks about there is a reduction in murders, and things of that nature, but we know that those numbers are somewhat fabricated. – Tishaura Jones	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These escalating home values were no doubt beneficial to homeowners and home sellers, however, as these markets flourish, middle-income wage earners face increasingly difficult affordability issues and are regrettably being priced out of the home-buying process. – Lawrence Yun	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The way this is escalating, we’ve got kids sitting here and we’re risking a border closing, m. – Said Thompson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This was my worst fear because we talked about it. All our friends that we're close with, they knew that things have been escalating the last two years to lead us into where Mario and I are now, we knew, other officers knew, that this was going to happen sooner or later. – Tryna Verbeck	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Cyber is an ideal tool for Russia to use prior to an invasion, you can use( cyber operations) to be aggressive, to signal( intent) and potentially erode the influence of your adversary before bullets fly or without necessary escalating the situation to war. – John Hultquist	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While the Delta and Omicron variants certainly contributed to this downward shift, the decline was also due to an escalating inflation rate. – Richard Curtin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
While our proposals are aimed at reducing the military confrontation, de-escalating the overall situation in Europe, exactly the opposite is happening in the West. NATO members are building up their strength and aviation. In the territories that are directly adjacent to Ukraine, on the Black Sea, the scale of exercises has increased many times recently. – Sergey Lavrov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Every fire is different, but it seems to keep escalating. Every year we keep topping the year before. – Jesse Alexander	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It’s a direct response to the escalating strikeout rate, where you’re giving the hitter approximately one one-hundreth of a second of additional time to decide whether to swing at a pitch, which has the effect just in terms of reaction time of reducing the effective velocity of a pitch by roughly 1.5 mph, the purpose of the test and hope is giving hitters even that tiny additional piece of time will allow them to make more contact and reduce the strikeout rate. – Morgan Sword	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This scandal is not just in the past. It’s in the present and escalating into the future. – Trish Greenhalgh	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
From our perspective, a critical early priority has to be to deal with what is an escalating nuclear crisis as they (Iran) move closer and closer to having enough fissile material for a weapon. – Jake Sullivan	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What North Korea is doing is completely wrong, they have been escalating nuclear and missile threats, and threatening the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

– Park Jin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are excited to see Kathy Hochul finally served a plate of humble pie, and we are fully prepared to continue the fight should she again attempt to disarm the citizens of her state at a time when her party’s policies are only escalating the danger that everyday citizens face.

– Erich Pratt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For teachers and for students, what this amounts to is an escalating campaign of censorship. A dramatically increased chilling effect that is leading to all kinds of negative outcomes within the classroom.

– Jeremy Young

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Escalating fines, more compliance reports, more granular controls and restrictions on their lines of business, or a requirement to get advertisements pre-approved by the agency, or excluding them from certain types of transactions.

– Megan Gray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pelosi's Taiwan visit is tainting sentiment today. And amid escalating tensions in Taiwan Strait and deepening worries about a global economic slowdown, investors are diving headlong into Stephen Innes bonds, no party wants a real war, but the risk of mishap or even aggressive war game escalation is real, which could always lead to a tactical mistake.

– Stephen Innes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Things are escalating in a very concerning way. And it was happening across the country, but we started to see very targeted, draconian anti-trans bills introduced into the Minnesota legislature.

– Leigh Finke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only a very small fraction of disaster spending is committed to preparedness and resilience building. We would expect to see a big shift in this ratio to see a much bigger focus on preparedness given the escalating risk of climate-fuelled disasters.

– Amanda McKenzie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> Berlin/London( CNN Business) Europe's biggest economy is now officially running short of natural gas and is escalating a crisis plan to preserve supplies ahead of winter as Russia turns off the taps. Germany on Thursday activated the second phase of its three-stage gas emergency program, taking it one step closer to rationing supplies to industry — a step that would deliver a huge blow to the manufacturing heart of its economy.'' Gas is from now on in short supply in Germany.

– Robert Habeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think where the US stands is wanting to provide all of the assistance that United States can to the Ukrainians without escalating the situation to a point where the war spills over or, frankly, goes in a terrible direction.

– Christine Wormuth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The EU is keen to be able to keep escalating The EU response according to developments in Ukraine, if Brussels now enforces maximum sanctions, how does it react to a further escalation by Moscow ?

– Henning Gloystein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rising inflation, escalating geopolitical uncertainty and the Federal Reserve's actions are driving rates higher and weakening consumers' purchasing power, in short, the rise in mortgage rates, combined with continued house price appreciation, is increasing monthly mortgage payments and quickly affecting homebuyers' ability to keep up with the market.

– Sam Khater

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The secretary-general has been in constant contact with numerous leaders and parties. Among them are heads of the governments and senior leaders of Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Turkey, Israel. Finland, France, Russia, and many others. from the very first day of the conflict, he made an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation to cease fighting. As he has been emphasizing, countless innocent people – including women and children – have been killed, and this escalating violence is totally unacceptable. The protection of civilians must be priority number one.

– Clifford May

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You see crime escalating. It’s growing. The philosophy of doing what you want to do and not fit in is absolutely growing here in the metropolitan area. Even though the city of Saint Louis talks about there is a reduction in murders, and things of that nature, but we know that those numbers are somewhat fabricated.

– Tishaura Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These escalating home values were no doubt beneficial to homeowners and home sellers, however, as these markets flourish, middle-income wage earners face increasingly difficult affordability issues and are regrettably being priced out of the home-buying process.

– Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The way this is escalating, we’ve got kids sitting here and we’re risking a border closing, m.

– Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was my worst fear because we talked about it. All our friends that we're close with, they knew that things have been escalating the last two years to lead us into where Mario and I are now, we knew, other officers knew, that this was going to happen sooner or later.

– Tryna Verbeck

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Cyber is an ideal tool for Russia to use prior to an invasion, you can use( cyber operations) to be aggressive, to signal( intent) and potentially erode the influence of your adversary before bullets fly or without necessary escalating the situation to war.

– John Hultquist

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While the Delta and Omicron variants certainly contributed to this downward shift, the decline was also due to an escalating inflation rate.

– Richard Curtin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While our proposals are aimed at reducing the military confrontation, de-escalating the overall situation in Europe, exactly the opposite is happening in the West. NATO members are building up their strength and aviation. In the territories that are directly adjacent to Ukraine, on the Black Sea, the scale of exercises has increased many times recently.

– Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every fire is different, but it seems to keep escalating. Every year we keep topping the year before.

– Jesse Alexander

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s a direct response to the escalating strikeout rate, where you’re giving the hitter approximately one one-hundreth of a second of additional time to decide whether to swing at a pitch, which has the effect just in terms of reaction time of reducing the effective velocity of a pitch by roughly 1.5 mph, the purpose of the test and hope is giving hitters even that tiny additional piece of time will allow them to make more contact and reduce the strikeout rate.

– Morgan Sword

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This scandal is not just in the past. It’s in the present and escalating into the future.

– Trish Greenhalgh

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

From our perspective, a critical early priority has to be to deal with what is an escalating nuclear crisis as they (Iran) move closer and closer to having enough fissile material for a weapon.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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