Even as rhetoric and disagreements over the drug war escalated, so did the number of Colombian children placed for adoption by American families.

This rhetoric escalated in tandem with the war itself - to "Hey!

Its membership grew while the objections and rhetoric of the German Christians escalated.

In the months following July 1999, the rhetoric in the state-run press escalated to include charges that Falun Gong was colluding with foreign, "anti-China" forces.

The rhetoric and the passions escalated and at some point the crowds went wild.

The political rhetoric escalated.

But as the rhetoric against China's foreign exchange arrangements has escalated, investors are growing wary.

Throughout 1849 in the South "the rhetoric of resistance to the North escalated and spread".

She continued, "If we begin to see big demonstrations around this war, we'll begin to see that rhetoric escalate again."

As each day - and each news cycle - goes by, the tensions mount and the rhetoric escalates.