11.   A political storm has blown up over public grants to American firm Conner Peripherals in Irvine which is ending Scottish production.

12.   CONTROVERSIAL Government plans to reduce and, in some cases, stop invalidity benefit payments for thousands of people provoked a political storm last night.

13.   At the moment it is at a low point, troubled by political storms as tempestuous as the unseasonal rain and winds that lash the Rock.

14.   Avila is studying communications at Arizona State University, wondering how her fellow intern could possibly have ended up at the center of the largest political storm since Watergate.

15.   A political storm followed the disclosure of those comments, leading Gingrich to dismiss Ms. Jeffrey.

16.   A similar, but smaller, conflict stirred up a political storm for Hillary Clinton.

17.   After the ruble collapsed and Yeltsin fired Sergei Kiriyenko as prime minister last month, Fyodorov rode out the political storm.

18.   But even as the eye of the political storm moved south, people here could not escape the election hoopla that had dominated local news and gossip for months.

19.   But he has tried to prevent that discussion from dwelling on slavery and its legacies, an issue that created a small political storm when Clinton created the commission.

20.   But Matsushita felt that even at that level, an acquisition could cause a political storm in the United States.