1.   Lori and I have a relationship based on mutual distrust.

2.   At issue are not just land, security arrangements and water resources but a fundamental mutual distrust and, on the part of Assad at least, deep-seated enmity.

3.   Both sides say they intend to work together but it will be difficult in an entrenched climate of mutual distrust.

4.   A climate of acrimony and mutual distrust in the negotiations may have decreased the likelihood of an early settlement.

5.   But given the mutual distrust of Arafat and Netanyahu, the U.S. note and letters now set out what Ross described as a road map for the future.

6.   But the financial and bureaucratic troubles are overshadowed by the mutual distrust between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo.

7.   But the mutual distrust is so overwhelming that the roller coaster can jump the tracks at any turn.

8.   But the Starr report details a postsexual deterioration that spills from argument and recrimination to growing suspicions and finally mutual distrust and even threats by Ms. Lewinsky.

9.   But their troops clashed last summer in the Congolese city of Kisangani and again last Friday in a much smaller battle that nonetheless reignited the tensions and mutual distrust.