21.   Global warming has become a faith-based religion for many believers who busily spread their doctrine with religious fervor.

22.   He has evolved into an icon, combining environmental crusading of an almost religious fervor with a highly successful effort to popularize science.

23.   He was living in Jersey City and working construction, occasionally flashing hints of his keen intelligence and religious fervor.

24.   His potent mix of patriotism, religious fervor, hate and machismo swirls in the streets of this grimy town, and others like it across northwest Pakistan.

25.   His speeches and writings on modern portfolio theory and risk analysis were quoted with religious fervor by investment professionals throughout the land.

26.   If anything, their religious fervor burns even stronger, along with a smoldering hatred for the Americans and their Afghan allies.

27.   In each case, the Bush administration is taking on political illusions held with an almost religious fervor.

28.   It is a local power struggle with clear demographic roots, they say, in which religious fervor has been turned into a weapon of war.

29.   It is a place where religious fervor and nationalist passions have often mixed explosively, and the idea now is to reduce the chances for sudden combustion.

30.   John Ashcroft, by the way, attributes the way I talk to my religious fervor.