1.   The risk associated with societal modernisation was, therefore, that the individual passions would run riot.

2.   Although passions are running high, Snell added, he is confident that the issue will be resolved.

3.   And passions ran high Friday night.

4.   As much as everyone seems to love e-mail, our passions run just as deep in our hatred of junk mail.

5.   Beneath the veneer of friendly competition, passions run deep.

6.   But passions ran high with senators of both parties recounting reports of atrocities allegedly committed by Serb soldiers against unarmed civilians.

7.   But passions have run high and tempers at many meetings since then have flared.

8.   But the case of McCain versus the National Right to Life Committee perhaps best shows how high passions have been running on the issue.

9.   Contentious fights seem inevitable nationally because the implications are vast and because passions run so high on this question, among citizens and their elected representatives.

10.   Griswold acknowledged the seriousness of the debate, saying he understood why passions run so high on both sides of the issue.