1.   Parliament has not yet begun to combat the deepening economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin.

2.   All thoroughly unlawful but there is a limit to public patience when the law- abiding feel they are not protected by officialdom.

3.   But every day, it seems, there are new reports of suspected acts of corruption that are testing public patience.

4.   But rehabilitating the INS may take longer than public patience will allow.

5.   Other polls out this week show similar partisan divides, but differed in their assessment of public patience.

6.   Public patience was never put to the test.

7.   Such operational details will be watched for their costs in money and public patience.

8.   The survey also showed diminishing public patience with politicians over the issue.

9.   Will public patience with the endless deadlock, which has held steady for the past two weeks, now vanish with the sausages and turkey stuffing?

10.   He reminded the government that public patience over the economic turmoil was wearing thin, a situation that could lead to violence and anarchy.