1.   Although the national perception is Dierker was forced out, McLane remained adamant that he did not force the Houston icon to step down.

2.   Boeheim pokes fun at himself, but he is sensitive about the national perception of him as a successful but bungling coach who blunders in big games.

3.   A national perception that the PRI is no longer in complete control has forced it into a kind of political downsizing.

4.   Again, Palm Beach County voters differed from the national perception.

5.   It might be a growing national perception, but it raises hackles among those within.

6.   Jones said the national perception that Switzer is merely a puppet for the owner is beginning to disappear.

7.   Just ask the other George Bush, who was ushered out of the Oval Office partly because of a national perception that such economic issues bored him.

8.   New York hype to the contrary and national perceptions aside, the Rangers have the better team.

9.   This is about civic esteem, and judging by the national perception, New Yorkers are everything that we are not.

10.   Two phenomena have nurtured the national perception of New Hampshire as a bastion of dogged, sometimes cruel conservatism.