But Republicans have begun floating possible alternatives for changing the system as they confront mounting opposition to plans for personal accounts.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Mr. Obama had no choice but to confront mounting concern among African-Americans about the Martin case and recent Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action and voting rights.
Taken together, the documents suggested that Mr. Bernanke, who effectively has control over monetary policy, may be facing increased pressure from Fed officials concerned that the central bank has promised too much, even as he confronts mounting external criticism from those who say he is not doing enough.
Confronting mounting resistance in Iraq from militant Islamic clerics and Arab nationalists, the White House said today that it was determined to see an "Islamic democracy" built in Iraq and that it had recently warned Iran against interfering with its efforts to organize a government.
What is implicit, though unstated, in his remarks is a recognition of the difficult political landscape that his investigation must traverse as this overwhelmingly Muslim nation confronts mounting evidence that homegrown Islamic radicals carried out the attack.
Confronted with mounting waste, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has banned brick, concrete, metal, wood and asphalt from landfills.
"It's triggered by ongoing concerns about control," the official added, as the ruling military council confronted the mounting pressure to hand over power.
IN the spring of 1994, United States government policymakers were confronted with mounting evidence that a blood bath of huge proportions was taking place in the central African country of Rwanda.
Knight, confronted with mounting evidence of his ill-tempered handiwork after the Neil Reed hand-on-throat allegations surfaced, instead chose to discredit Sperber as a critic and an author.
