1.   Although ministers now stress that they recognize the importance of backing basic research without strings, the suspicion still lingers that decisions are shifting towards short-term payoffs.

2.   Although spring rains have now pushed flows above levels agreed in the treaty, suspicions linger.

3.   And within the anti-abortion movement, suspicions linger that Dole is not a wholehearted abortion opponent.

4.   But beneath the inklings of bipartisanship Tuesday, the old suspicions lingered.

5.   But suspicions linger that FDR somehow invited the attack or allowed it to happen in order to more easily obtain a declaration of war from Congress.

6.   But suspicions lingered that the real mastermind might have been Zia, who was deputy army chief at the time.

7.   Despite the immense size of the business, suspicions linger because of the high-pressure and often deceptive sales tactics used to market many of the projects.

8.   Even if one of the opposition candidates beats the odds and accomplishes the first peaceful alternation of power in modern Mexican history, some suspicion will linger.

9.   In this ragged capital of a ravaged nation, suspicion towards Americans lingers.

10.   Suspicions lingered, however.