For American Icelandophiles -- whose numbers appear to be mounting rapidly -- the phrase seems faintly absurd.
As a result, the costs of taking over and storing surplus crops are mounting rapidly.
TWO months after American and British forces crushed the government of Saddam Hussein, the economic consequences of a "lean" peacekeeping strategy are mounting rapidly.
As with the air traffic controllers last week, officials had to back down because the people they were dealing with were all rank-and-file, and public pressure was mounting rapidly.
Troops and tanks were deployed to the besieged city of Hama at the weekend, with casualties reported to be mounting rapidly - increasing pressure on the 15 members of the Security Council to issue a condemnation of the regime's actions.
Evidence of climate change had been mounting rapidly in the decade since a NASA scientist named James Hansen rocked the world in 1988 with congressional testimony that the "greenhouse effect," driven by human activity, was almost certainly warming the Earth's atmosphere.
By the 1990s the toll in death and disease in these countries was mounting rapidly, and youth smoking began to shoot upward in some of the countries, including the United States and Canada, that had shown great strides in the reduction of smoking in the 1970s and 1980s.
While it is commonly agreed that changes in strength of connections between neurons in the relevant networks underlie memory storage, evidence have been mounting rapidly that also modifications in intrinsic neuronal properties, manifested as enhanced neuronal excitability, underlie specific stages of learning (for reviews see [1] [3].
One important feature of CR revealed by our model is that CR's effects are mounted rapidly and then diminished gradually, which can be seen from Figure 4, 5, and 7.
