In a mounting struggle between reformists and conservatives, Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has denounced calls for greater women's rights as a violation of Islamic teachings.
The journey was part homage, part pilgrimage and part mobilization, as contestants in a mounting struggle over Turkey's identity seek to draw the lines ahead of a July 22 election, one of the country's most important ballots in years.
But for King Hussein of Jordan, the mounting struggle with Yasir Arafat is only one of a host of problems.
Late last year, country music legend Glen Campbell released the final single of his career, I'm Not Gonna Miss You, a song he recorded in early 2013 that reflected upon his mounting struggle with Alzheimer's.
For the last decade or more, Americans have watched with growing alarm and frustration the mounting struggles in the nation's classrooms.
Wages are rising, corporate debts are mounting and the struggle to maintain a loose peg with the dollar has caused a loss of competitiveness against Asian rivals.
Labor groups and teachers in other cities voiced support for strikers here, suggesting that the fight in Chicago was merely one glimpse at a mounting national struggle over unionized teachers' pay, conditions, benefits and standing.
Today's college students and graduates struggle with mounting debt burdens and the ability to complete a degree without a mountain of debt is indeed a very big deal.
Unisys dismissed 11,900 employees in 1994 and 1995 as it struggled with mounting debt and losses.
Like many mortgage rivals, ResCap has struggled with mounting delinquencies and falling volumes and has essentially stopped making loans to people with poor credit.
Struggling with mounting bills and depression, by February she was homeless, bunking in an ostensibly temporary shelter, a dingy, trailer-like structure that has stood in the shadow of the county government complex in Hackensack for 25 years.
