1.   There have been reports of escalating violence in the region.

2.   The Council began its work at time of escalating violence.

3.   The gesture followed months of escalating political violence in Sind during which the PPP had claimed that the provincial government had launched a political vendetta against its members.

4.   Escalating violence led to the promulgation in mid-September of new emergency laws aimed at curbing terrorism.

5.   Amid escalating violence between the rival camps, the two men traveled to Senegal for negotiations this week.

6.   America cannot turn its back on the conflict, nor should it accept deadlock and escalating violence as regrettable but unavoidable turns in the long road to peace.

7.   As leaders on both sides blamed each other for the escalating violence, the already-fragile Israeli-Palestinian peace process appeared on the verge of collapse.

8.   A cease-fire would be the first step toward bringing the parties toward peace talks, objectives Bush does not want to see jeopardized by escalating violence.

9.   A day after Palestinians and Israelis described escalating violence in the region as war, they were talking again.

10.   A discussion such as this is one of several ways in which schools and public officials are beginning to confront the problem of escalating violence among adolescent girls.