Sentence examples for the mounting confrontation from inspiring English sources
The mounting confrontation has put Hong Kong in an awkward position.
The Israel-Lebanon crisis, coupled with anxiety over the mounting confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions, drove the price of crude oil to a record of almost $77 a barrel yesterday.
Still, the display of armor here and near the northern West Bank city of Jenin was the latest step in the mounting confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians that has all but buried an American-brokered cease-fire agreed to last month.
He also appeared to escalate a mounting confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that is Egypt's best-organized political force, over control of the interim government.
Among the incidents that have raised concern over a mounting confrontation with the militants was a shooting on Tuesday night at a Pakistani air base that killed six airmen in circumstances that have yet to be explained.
SEOUL, South Korea — When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday declared America's solidarity with South Korea in its mounting confrontation with North Korea, she had more than a domestic audience in mind: she was also speaking to the Chinese.
Partly that is because while Mr. Obama was hailing a new era of cautious cooperation with China, Google was complaining of mounting confrontation, chiefly over Chinese pressure on it to make sure Chinese users could not directly link to the American-based "google.com" site, to evade much of the censorship the company had reluctantly imposed on its main Chinese portal, google.cn.cn
But after a week in which the Iranian currency, the rial, fell by a shocking 40 percent and protests began to rumble through the capital, no one is making light of the mounting costs of confrontation.
The unusual Senate confrontation underscored the mounting tension over the campaign finance bill and, more broadly, over control of the agenda in a Congress where Republicans have only a slender majority.
VICE News is in Israel and Palestine amid the mounting tension as Israelis and Palestinians prepare for the next round of violent confrontations.
Assemble the mounting kit.
