1.   This illustrates a difference that was to persIst between the two houses as the program evolved.

2.   Also tempering the good news, the WHO report documents huge gaps that persist between prosperous and poor nations in longevity and disease.

3.   Although some specific trade disputes persist between Washington and Tokyo, the antagonism that characterized their relations in recent years is fast waning.

4.   A broad flow from the east and northeast will persist between a strengthening high-pressure area over eastern Canada and slow-moving low pressure off the middle Atlantic coast.

5.   A tension seems certain to persist between a common currency and the absence of common fiscal and other policies to support it.

6.   A seemingly endless debate persists between those who regard music as a branch of physics and those who see it as the artistic product of inspired but inexplicable minds.

7.   But although the two groups had reached consensus, cool relations persisted between Marsden and one of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists, Yeomans.

8.   But it appeared that some differences persisted between France and the United States over what degree of sanctions relief Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic should be offered.

9.   But strife persisted between the Japanese and the FIS for years.

10.   But the uproar underlined the importance of religious belief in Ireland, and the intolerance that persists between many Catholics and Protestants.