11.   Historians have come to view the incident as having been manufactured by the Americans to buttress decisions already taken to escalate the war.

12.   I resisted the temptation to go inside the White House, where Presidents Johnson and Nixon ordered the war escalated.

13.   In the recent months we have called into question the judgment of men who escalated war and those who fled from serving.

14.   In the weeks before the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade last May, NATO was under tremendous pressure to escalate its war against Yugoslavia.

15.   It shows the president choosing to escalate the war in Vietnam while being tortured by the decision and lying about it.

16.   Kennedy escalated the war in Vietnam and showed every intention of continuing it.

17.   Murdoch escalated the war.

18.   That was when President Lyndon B. Johnson had just escalated the war in Vietnam.

19.   The ship contained an arsenal that could have escalated the war between Palestinians and Israelis.

20.   Their turf wars escalated the war on drugs and prompted states and the federal government to set mandatory minimum sentences.