Sentences with 'mounting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mounting and other words derived from it.
• « From a contemporary perspective, the fall of Rome seems to have less to do with divine intervention than with routine defeats and mounting threats. »
• « By the spring of 1941, Hitler was confident that an all-out attack on the USSR would succeed, now that German military resources could be concentrated mainly in the east. He was encouraged by the fact that, according to his own racial ideology, the Slavs of Eastern Europe (obviously the Russians) were so inferior to the "Aryan" Germans that they would be incapable of mounting effective resistance. Thus, Hitler anticipated that the conquest of the Soviet Union would take about ten weeks. »
• « As French forces suffered mounting defeats in Indochina, the United States intensified its commitment to prevent another Asian nation from becoming a communist state. »