1.   Heavy government casualties continued to be reported.

2.   As the hurricane slowly cut a path inland, its casualties continued to rise.

3.   But Hariri said if Palestinian casualties continue, he foresaw an end to cooperation with the United States.

4.   If the casualties continue to mount, public support for the war may turn sour.

5.   Russian casualties have continued to mount at a rate of nine men dead or wounded per day, at least according to official figures.

6.   The dot-com casualties continued to mount last week as Eve.com, the first of the major beauty pure-play sites to launch, shut its virtual doors.

7.   But while generals, officials and parents of soldiers continue to agonize over how to end the Lebanese quagmire, troop casualties continue to mount.

8.   Casualties continue even as the intensity of fighting dwindles from the massive assaults of fall and winter.

9.   Casualties continued to mount in Chechnya.

10.   Meanwhile, casualties continued to mount in Chechnya itself.