1.   But as the conversion issue has demonstrated, breaking the bonds of so powerful a past can be wrenching and violent.

2.   During the conference call, the company also referred to weakness in its European business, which is experiencing slower growth and currency conversion issues.

3.   Now, Southeast currency turmoil coupled with political concerns at home, threaten to push the rupee conversion issue on the backburner.

4.   Rabbi Yoffie denies that he and his Reform and Conservative colleagues are urging American Jews to cut back their charitable donations if the conversion issue is not satisfactorily resolved.

5.   Still, the conversion issue hangs like an threatening storm cloud over Israel and its dealings with the diaspora.

6.   To most Israelis the conversion issue is more abstract, and most are unfamiliar with Reform and Conservative Judaism.

7.   Your happiness with OpenOffice may boil down to your tolerance for these conversion issues.

8.   The conversion issue gained international attention after activists in a western state governed by a Hindu right-wing party damaged churches and threatened missionaries.

9.   But he came down heavily on the controversial conversion issue arguing it was creating a split between the two communities.