1.   The referendum campaign took place against a background of mounting violence.

2.   Adding to the pressures, Serbs are also trying to cope with mounting violence by the ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo region of Serbia, who want independence.

3.   Albania had won international praise for its restraint in the face of mounting violence in Kosovo, and it refused to intervene over the future of the province.

4.   But the continuing war in Afghanistan and the mounting violence between Israel and the Palestinians in the Middle East are suddenly raising doubts about his leadership.

5.   He spent the next three years in exile, as the United States sought to negotiate his return amid mounting violence.

6.   In the face of mounting violence, the United States and other countries discuss some kind of intervention in East Timor.

7.   It was a time of mounting communal violence between Greeks and Turks, which was only contained by the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.

8.   The shooting added to the mounting violence in Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland in the first week of the campaign for British parliamentary elections.

9.   Then, last June, amidst the mounting political violence of the military regime, Bouvier left the country, and supervisors suspended the program.

10.   Zedillo has been fiercely criticized by human rights organizations because, they say, he has ignored mounting violence.