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The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.
Michael T. Flynn /
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Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
Don Cornelius / Television Host
Almost All
Clark
Hosting
Mounting
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About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
Frits Zernike /
Laboratory
Mounting
Obtained
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
Wendell H. Ford / Former American Senator
Garbage
Paper
Waste
Particularly
Generating
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If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.
Robert Byrne /
Coverage
Newspapers
Numbers
Pool
Admit
Exists
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Debt
Government Spending
People
Rose
Spending
Believed
Mounting
The Only Thing
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Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
Oren Etzioni /
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
Robotics
Sooner Or Later
Job
Advances
Face
Sooner
Due
Job Losses
Later
Losses
Mounting
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
John Boehner / Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Afterlife
Going Away
Leader
Terrorism
Threat
Go Away
Hoped
Leaders
Mounting
World Leaders
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Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.
Pete Domenici / Former United States Senator
Borders
Congress
Infrastructure
Needs
Remedy
Mounting
Northern
Overall
Push
Southwest
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I think that much of the success of the Broadway mounting of 'Newsies' was due in no small part to the infectious camaraderie on stage between the boys.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger /
Broadway
Camaraderie
Due
Infectious
Mounting
Small Part
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All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
Graham Swift / Film Writer
Creatures
Mating
Purpose
Secret
Sex
Somewhere
Express
Join
Mounting
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The first LP, 'Inner Mounting Flame,' is, of course, one of my favorites, and also 'Visions of the Emerald Beyond.' But the others are also very dear to me.
John Mclaughlin / Guitarist
Dear
Beyond
Favorites
Flame
Inner
Mounting
Visions
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As a nation, we must unite in recognizing the mounting evidence that the U.S. is falling behind international competitors in producing students ready for 21st-century jobs.
Rex Tillerson /
Competitors
Recognizing
Falling
Mounting
Producing
Unite
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Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.
James Fenton / Poet
Men
Book
Inevitable
Musical
Tempted
Massacre
Mormon
Mounting
Park
South Park
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.
Thomas Frank / Journalist
Kings
Bonus
Brushing
Dedicated
Genre
Inequality
Journalism
Wall
Years
Mounting
Wall Street
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Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.
Priyamvada Natarajan /
Formation
Galaxy
Holes
Opera
Black Holes
Mounting
Prima
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In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.
Robert Reich / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Abandoned
Corporate
Raiders
Shareholders
Unfriendly
Deliver
Mounting
Returns
Stakeholders
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I couldn't be a conventional commercial actor without being a star-kid. That kind of a big film needs a certain mounting, a little paraphernalia around you. And nobody would give me that.
Ayushmann Khurrana /
Conventional
Mounting
Paraphernalia
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Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world.
Roméo Dallaire / Canadian Senator
Missions
Peacekeeping
Mounting
Operation
Regards
Responsibilities
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The bottom line is this: in an era of mounting fiscal challenges and competing demands, we must actively seek ways to free up time, money, and manpower to invest back into our top priorities.
Mark Esper /
Bottom Line
Competing
Manpower
Actively
Invest
Fiscal
Mounting
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Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.
Brian Schatz /
Burying
Clean Energy
Climate Change
Luxury
Response
Sand
Heads
Mounting
Swift
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell / Musician
Aggressive
Ignorance
Mental Illness
Particular
Song
Spiritual
Foot
Mental
Mounting
Rabbit
Slice
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Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.
Joshua Chamberlain / Former Governor Of Maine
Engaged
Passing
Considerable
Direction
Foot
Round
Mounting
Rear
Toward
Valley
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From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
Steven Rattner / Financier
Attending
Defer
Owe
Mounting
Obligations
Proposition
Slow
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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
Anne M. Mulcahy /
Bankers
Bankruptcy
Calling
Ceo
Debt
People
Sinking
Xerox
Years
Me People Situation
Declare
Dire
Employees
Me Situation People
Mounting
Personally
Stock
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Urged
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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian Ferneyhough / Composer
Art
Assured
Clutter
Fashion
Just One
Nevertheless
Thinking
Vision
Work Art World
Mounting
Object
Pursuing
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My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.
Deval Patrick / Governor Of Massachusetts
Afternoon
Heat
Oblivious
Vivid
Warm
Mother Me Day
Attributed
Basement
Centers
Mounting
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Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people.
Kim Jong-Un / Supreme Leader Of North Korea
Positive
Country
Creating
Deeds
Flames
Flare
Millions
Vanguard
Young
Positive People Will
People Will Nothing
Across
Beyond
Bring
Full
Initial
Virtues
Mounting
Reach
Spark
Vigour
Young People
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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian
Teacher
Anxious
Breathless
Disillusion
Fifteen
Fullness
Half
Manhood
Planning
Wonder
Younger
Bloom
Mounting
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While they might have got a bit fancier over the years, I still relish a good packed lunch if I am on the road, with that mounting excitement for a particular goodie I've wrapped up for the trip and the challenge of holding out for as long as I can before I cave.
Rachel Khoo /
Excitement
Lunch
Relish
Good I Am Long
Cave
Holding
Mounting
Packed
Trip
Wrapped
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We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Assisting
Camps
Chad
Sudan
Zone
Attacks
Crossing
Border
Establish
Logistical
Mounting
Operation
Refugees
Subject
Transfer
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There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.
John Hagel Iii /
Agree
Comfort
Uncertainty
World People Pressure
Seek
Mounting
Occurs
Rapidly
Similar
Trend
Tendency
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
David Suzuki / Professor
Climate
Decades
Events
Evidence
Frequency
Severe
Weather
Act
Extreme
Droughts
Fail
Far
Floods
Happening
Increasing
Line
Mounting
Predicted
Scientists
Worse
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For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have engaged with the potential destruction of this world on an emotional level and there is a fundamental difference. There is huge feeling of grief, of loss.
Gail Bradbrook /
Destruction
Ecological
Engaged
Evidence
Grief
Emotional Level
Fundamental Difference
Mounting
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
Adam Cohen /
American Life
Beaten
Mad
Mad Men
Meter
Offers
Predecessors
Retirement
Savings
Unemployment
Unhappy
Equally
Mounting
Plunging
Skyrocketing
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America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.
Joe Lonsdale /
Amount
Available
Congestion
Crisis
Culprit
Enormous
Faces
Funding
Gas
Infrastructure
Needs
Productivity
Traditional
Transportation
Unhealthy
Tax
Longer
Mounting
National
Primary
Road
Wastes
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Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.
Arthur L. Herman / Historian
Agency
Fool
Guy
Hero
National Security
Ongoing
Patriot
Program
Sinister
Snowden
Traitor
Edward
Leaked
Mounting
Namely
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
Edmund Phelps /
New Ideas
Selling
Accumulate
Entrepreneurs
Mounting
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For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
Beeban Kidron / Film Director
Cold
Constant
Determined
Frustrated
Humiliated
Joyful
Police
Police Force
Mounting
Terrifying
Principle
Shared
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We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.
Angela Rayner /
Finance
Aspiration
Better Life
Discouraging
Fairness
Mobility
Sustainable
Encourages
Governed
Increases
Ladder
Mounting
Punishing
Tories
Unsustainable
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