Sentence examples for encountered increasing from inspiring English sources

The Wycliffite translations encountered increasing ecclesiastical opposition.

From then on he encountered increasing misfortune.

He has encountered increasing demand for organic milk and is about to add it, for a price.

In recent months, energy companies have encountered increasing difficulty in finding investors in cases where they lack purchase agreements guarantee buyers for most or all of the power new plants would generate.

He has used the term a lot over the past year as the Mets have encountered increasing adversity and Randolph, perhaps wishfully, has promised that his team will get revenge.

Others complained that they had encountered increasing police harassment or violence by Pakistanis, especially in the border regions, where many residents supported the Taliban and had lost relatives who had fought on the side of the Taliban.

Wearing one is not compulsory, but women who immodestly reveal their hair encounter increasing pressure, even abuse.

But biking west, toward the residential corners of Berlin, one encounters increasing vestiges of the grand Central European metropolis that once existed here.

Most volunteer departments are encountering increasing difficulties in recruiting and retaining members, he said, whether because of longer commutes, two-job households, crammed after-school schedules or stricter state training requirements.

It seems likely that they too will take a more assertive position on issues in what they see as their own backyard, though their growing role will also encounter increasing opposition.

Eighty percent of the population of Gaza now lives below the poverty line and UNRWA is encountering increasing levels of abject poverty where people basically do not have enough food, even with their meager food allocations, to live.