21.   Hollywood could no more dispense with sexual explicitness than it could soften the escalating violence and gore to which audiences had become accustomed.

22.   In recent days, amid the escalating violence, voices of conciliation on both sides also are growing stronger.

23.   In Cairo on Monday evening, the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, met with King Abdullah of Jordan to discuss the escalating violence.

24.   In the face of the escalating violence Thursday, Berger stressed that NATO military support for the Kosovars remained confined to air strikes.

25.   Most troublesome is the lack of nourishment being shown by newborns because their mothers have stopped breastfeeding during the escalating violence.

26.   Now there is growing anxiety on their part that the escalating violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories could lead to instability in the region.

27.   Of great concern to Awad and his fellow Christians, perhaps as much as the escalating violence, is the future of their faith in Israel and Palestine.

28.   On Monday Rumsfeld also linked Iran to the escalating violence in the Middle East, accusing it of supporting Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli civilians.

29.   Or, during the chaos of escalating street violence or an attempted coup, the weapons could fall into the hands of Pakistani military units sympathetic to bin Laden.

30.   Some blame the escalating violence on pro-independence supporters who see their goal slipping away.