1.   The overcrowding that could result would inevitably escalate the conflict.

2.   Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.

3.   - arrives to escalate the conflict into something truly perilous?

4.   He said the ethnic Albanian rebels had been marginalized, and saw no reason for the Macedonians to escalate the conflict.

5.   Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas escalate their conflict with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon and launch missiles against Israeli border towns in the north.

6.   It was, of course, Johnson who escalated the conflict with the dispatch of combat forces.

7.   Missteps by either could rapidly escalate the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and jeopardize the broader campaign against terror.

8.   Once the boss gets involved, you are escalating the conflict.

9.   So they have escalated this conflict.

10.   The administration has also said that lifting the arms embargo will escalate the conflict, that the Serbs will attack.