Sentence examples for terror mounting from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile his father, who had vowed to himself to be truthful with Johnny, begins to spin impossible stories ("believe it or not, a billiards table came yesterday"), and Johnny, his anger and terror mounting, decides to destroy all the nutcracker soldiers come Christmas Day, finally ending the war.

While terror mounted, Frum and Perle say, the Clinton administration did nothing.

The terror mounted in me out of all proportion to my own dimensions....I was still this little woman in her little apartment, next to a little man in the same little apartment.

And as each is shared, the creeping terror mounts to a truly hysterical pitch.

Terror is mounting among the Vietnamese residents of the capital, estimated at 200,000.

The review shows that over that summer, with terror warnings mounting, the government's response was often scattered and inconsistent as the new administration struggled to develop a comprehensive strategy for combating Al Qaeda and other terror organizations.

It is the first time the US Rewards for Justice programme has been used in west Africa. he capture of northern Mali by al-Qa'ida linked Islamist groups in 2012 raised the alarm about the mounting terror threat in the region, and led to French intervention in January.

Fears in Italy of an imminent Islamic terror attack mounted after Libya-based Isis affiliates warned the jihadist group was now "just south of Rome".

His mother, Mary Elizabeth, said Sergeant Velazquez signed up for the Army right after high school graduation in San Diego more than a decade ago, and stayed in, even as new terror threats mounted for the United States.

Adele remembers it as a time of surprise and satisfaction; also of mounting terror.

Ms. Kidd conveys mounting terror capably, but with their stilted formality and self-conscious intensity, Ms. Collins and Mr. Meo erase the ambiguity between innocence and malevolence.