11.   Friction also persists between Fox and some leaders of the National Action Party, which is widely known here by its Spanish acronym, PAN.

12.   It also offered another glimpse of the tensions that persist between Russia and the lands it once occupied.

13.   Lower-level border disputes persist between Columbia and Venezuela, Chile and Argentina, Guyana and Venezuela, Guatemala and Belize, and El Salvador and Nicaragua.

14.   Other border disputes persist between Columbia and Venezuela, Chile and Argentina, Guyana and Venezuela, Guatemala and Belize, and El Salvador and Nicaragua.

15.   So a gulf persists between talking the talk and walking the walk.

16.   Some bitter feelings persist between those Americans who fought in the war or lost loved ones and those who waged a propaganda war against the war.

17.   The city government is broke, unemployment is high and tensions persist between its Christian and Muslim communities.

18.   A power struggle within his ruling party, which has for long persisted between hard-line nationalists and more moderate politicians, has resurfaced with increased intensity.

19.   A low pressure trough at all levels of the atmosphere persists between Puerto Rico and Haiti.

20.   Across a swath of northern Afghanistan, fierce but scattered fighting persisted between the opposition alliance and Taliban troops.