1.   Further violence could escalate into a full-scale armed conflict.

2.   Gunfire could be heard in the city all day, she said, but the violence escalated late in the evening.

3.   Violence has escalated between Serbs and Muslims.

4.   Although the attacks were hostile, damage was restricted mostly to property until late last week, when political violence escalated sharply.

5.   As the vote nears, the violence has escalated along with a quiet campaign of terror in which people have been kidnapped, threatened and forced into hiding.

6.   As violence escalates over a housing project in southeastern Jerusalem, the builder finds itself an accidental celebrity.

7.   As the violence escalates, the store of ominousness shrinks and gives way to silliness, leaving some talented actors high and dry.

8.   But in the interim, violence has escalated.

9.   But what happens if the violence escalates?

10.   Criminal charges seldom result from such cases except when the violence escalates to the point that the woman is killed, Taliaferro said.