Sentence examples for period of mounting from inspiring English sources

The next 20 years were a period of mounting crises.

In that period of mounting dread, there were polite phone calls between heads of state and orderly airport closings.

During the period of mounting intersectional strife, Davis spoke widely in both North and South, urging harmony between the sections.

Ms. Gillibrand's work for Philip Morris came during a pivotal period of mounting criticism and intensified legal scrutiny of the tobacco industry.

In many colonies, these were described as watch files, and stamped with a red letter W. The papers at Kew depict a period of mounting anxiety amid fears that some of the incriminating watch files might be leaked.

British soldier and administrator who served as high commissioner in Southern Africa and governor of Cape Colony from 1889 to 1895, a period of mounting tension between the British and the Boers.

But others are inclined to see the American story as a series of crescendos and climaxes, periods of mounting internal strife that are resolved, or at least recast, by crystallizing moments.

A murder, on the other hand, is usually a kind of climax to a period of rapidly mounting excitement.

The length of mounting and time period lacking vocalization after the end of mounting behavior were measured.

Its strict chronological arrangement, mostly covering the period 1959-1975, is tantamount to a devastating narrative of mounting horror and increasingly tortuous self-delusion.

The armies of the period comprised bodies of mounted, armoured knights, supported by infantry.