But increasingly, opposing views are emerging even among Russian historians.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Some 100,000 U.S.and NATO troops are currently in Afghanistan, but increasingly casualty figures and concerns about a growing Taliban threat and an ineffective and corrupt Afghan government have led to diminishing public support for the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

But it warns that mosquitoes are becoming increasingly resistant to pesticides, the products used to kill insects.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

But since the late nineteen nineties, inventors of business methods and processes have increasingly sought patent protection.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But young workers are increasingly dissatisfied with the pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

But he says a hung parliament - in which no party has the overall majority - seems increasingly likely.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

But it became increasingly difficult to continue the crackdown as the protests grew to hundreds of thousands of people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

But Specter said he found himself increasingly at odds with a Republican Party that has moved to the right.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"But it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

But Bangkok is looking and sounding increasingly like a war zone.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

But finding new shopowners to fill empty space is increasingly difficult.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

"I think you are seeing Premier Wen, the prime minister, addressing not so much an American audience or President Obama, but addressing a very increasingly restive population that wants, or that appears to want, the Chinese leadership to stand up to international pressure."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23