Mr.Obama said the health insurance industry is mounting what he calls "one last fight to save the status quo."

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Aside from keeping weapons out of the Gaza Strip, one of Israel's goals in mounting the blockade was to pressure Gazans to topple Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Fears have been mounting that Venice could, in a matter of years, belong only to tourists.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

But the Prime Minister's attendance has been brought forward after mounting pressure from opposition parties.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The poor showing added to mounting pressure for Prime Minister Taro Aso to dissolve the Lower House of the parliament and call a general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

The United Nations has already imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran related to its nuclear activities, and pressure appears to be mounting for a fourth.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

All of this talk comes in the face of mounting national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"If he's not able to answer convincingly and clearly the evidence which is mounting in these cases, how's he going to be able to discipline and change anything."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Furthermore,livestock diseases, as well as food-borne and human diseases,are also mounting.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

(Shooting Sound) Violence in Afghanistan is mounting, U.S.public support for the war is slipping and lawmakers in Mr.Obama's own party have criticized his plan to send tens of thousands more troops.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

However,concern is mounting for the safety of civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

But the critics and supporters agree one of the British national health service's biggest challenges, as it enters its seventh decade, are the mounting cost of new technology and medicines, and an aging population.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Although there is mounting evidence to suggest workers are becoming more organized and sophisticated at collective bargaining for improved welfare, it is unlikely the government would ever allow the situation to get out of hand.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Labor has come under vehement criticism from the opposition Conservatives for the government's bail-out of failing banks and for large public spending that many analysts say will leave future generations with a mounting public debt.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

As Congress waits to hear the outcome of the president's review, there is mounting concern about the ramifications of whatever decisions he makes, both short and long-term impact, for the United States, the South Asian region, and for the war against al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15