11.   The political impasse has revived fighting in the war, which began last December when Russian troops mounted an offensive to crush the secessionists.

12.   The rebels mounted their offensive to humiliate President Boris Yeltsin on the occasion of his inauguration to a second term.

13.   The talks collapsed almost two weeks ago, when the government mounted an offensive to remove the ethnic-Albanian guerrillas from a village near here.

14.   The war widens as the Croatian government mounts an offensive against the Serbs.

15.   The Zapatistas, including Subcomandante Marcos, retreated into the Lacandon jungle last week after President Ernesto Zedillo announced the government was mounting an offensive to detain them.

16.   They put a bomb on Hammersmith Bridge in London last week and have vowed to mount an offensive in the British capital.

17.   This year, however, a renewed congressional offensive has been mounted against business giveaways, with Kansas Republican Sam Brownback identified as leading the initiative in the Senate.

18.   While few cases are prosecuted at the state and local level, federal prosecutors have mounted an offensive against political corruption in the past five years.

19.   Angola and Namibia also sent troops and tanks to help stop rebel advances and mount an offensive against rebel positions in the dense jungles of eastern Congo.

20.   Before signing the last two accords, both sides mounted major offensives in an apparent effort to negotiate from a position of military strength.