1.   To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide.

2.   And Nemtsov told reporters Monday that his decision to join the government might turn out to be political suicide.

3.   After World War II, the non-communist left in the United States committed political suicide.

4.   But Massachusetts Gov. William Weld has written his fellow Republicans warning that a constitutional amendment outlawing abortions will be political suicide for the GOP.

5.   But most party leaders think his rift with Cardenas is bad for the party and political suicide for him.

6.   But Republicans, led by Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, maintained it would be political suicide to touch Social Security, making inclusion in the amendment unnecessary.

7.   Changing the course would be political suicide.

8.   For decades, conventional wisdom has held that any dramatic reform of programs benefiting the elderly was tantamount to political suicide.

9.   He felt he had to convince God that he would be committing political suicide to do it.

10.   He then showed that he had not lost his stomach for violating the rules of politics in order to take on issues considered to be political suicide.