The rising strength of remnant Al Qaeda and Taliban cadres along the Afghan border is equally unsettling.
Hamas's promotion of Islam and its schools and health clinics have all contributed to its rising strength.
Alarmed by Shivaji's rising strength, the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb ordered his viceroy of the south to march against him.
Even more critical, by some measures, is the rising strength of the dollar, which increases the cost of American goods and makes them less competitive.
Unless Republicans reverse the trend, he said, the rising strength of Latinos could doom the party's ability to map a winning electoral strategy.
What is unquestionable is that the 30 people who perished included 18 gifted players, including six members of the team that, as teenagers, had announced Zambia's rising strength by thrashing Italy 4-0 athehe 1988 Olympics.
For many Americans, President Obama's election, made possible in part by the rising strength of nonwhite voters, signaled a transcendent moment in the country's knotty racial history.
The takeover of the town, Azaz, by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, reflected the rising strength of extremist fighters in northern and eastern Syria and their rapidly deteriorating relations with more mainline rebels.
More than a year before Blair became Labour leader in 1994, a delicate political dance began between him and the tabloids – each side seeking to draw maximum advantage from the rising strength of the other – which culminated in the Sun endorsing Labour at the 1997 general election.
Two potential Republican presidential candidates in 2016, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, both expressed concern at a governors' forum in July about the rising strength of national security libertarianism among Republicans, but they have so far kept quiet about Syria.
Dance is an area of rising strength.
