Brazil has mounted a strong legal challenge to America's cotton subsidies.
Members of the Institute of Medicine's committee mounted a strong defence in the Lancet, a medical journal.
Third, the city has become acutely conscious of its own heritage in stone and has mounted a strong conservation movement.
These would be just as problematic to exploit as those of Greenland, where Greenpeace has mounted a strong campaign to protect Arctic waters from oil and gas drilling.
Carswell also mounted a strong defence of his friend Mark Reckless who followed him in defecting to Ukip from the Tories.
However, he found his voice when he mounted a strong personal assault on Cameron's stewardship of the NHS and Cameron's zero-hours economy.
African Union peacekeepers and pro-government forces had mounted a strong offensive against the militants, and al-Shabaab leaders said the move was strategic.
Stood on a stage that was deliberately bathed in blue, Miliband mounted a strong defence of the union with Scotland and paid big tributes to the armed forces.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian president, has dismissed allegations of corruption as rumours and innuendoes as she mounted a strong defence of her personal integrity.
Mr. Fleischmann's top opponents mounted a strong, well-financed fight for the Third District, an eastern area of the state that includes Chattanooga.
