Confusion about who is financially backing the project is mounting.
Political pressure was mounting tonight from veteran Conservative politicians on Cameron to take much tougher action against IS.
But those two identifications are still subjects of debate, a problem that adds to the suspense now mounting at Amphipolis.
None are mounting an “attack on the family and the marriage.”
But how long that support will last is an open question, given the civilian casualties that are mounting from this Gaza war.
They ordered their ponies and, mounting, rode behind us under escort.
mounting the front steps, she drew forth the key, and put it in the door.
The man Eccles shut the door, mounting the box beside the driver.
On mounting the steps at the Thtre Franais I trod on a lady's dress.
Dignified firmness had been the line I intended, but my rage was mounting.
c.1300, "to mount a horse;" mid-14c., "to rise up, ascend; fly," from Old French monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from Vulgar Latin *montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1530s. Sense of "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. Related: Mounted; mounting.
"hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- "to stand out, project" (cf. Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").
"that on which something is mounted," 1739, from mount (v.). The colloquial meaning "a horse for riding" is first recorded 1856.
mount (mount)
v. mount·ed, mount·ing, mounts
To prepare a specimen for microscopic examination, especially by positioning on a slide.