11.   It was a painful reminder that the church, long a refuge from political strife, could also be engulfed by it.

12.   Korzhakov, a hawkish former KGB officer who is an influential adviser and confidant of the president, said the election should be put off to avoid political strife.

13.   Miller also defends the use of statesmen in a country born of political strife.

14.   The exodus of working-class residents is creating both commercial problems and political strife.

15.   The markets were unnerved by all that political strife.

16.   The Indian-populated countryside of southern Mexico has become the most violent region of a nation increasingly plagued by political strife and crime.

17.   The music she plays today could be considered her impression of what Cuban jazz would have become without three decades of political strife.

18.   They will encounter a school system that is reeling from budget cuts and political strife sharp enough to cause lasting damage.

19.   Views of the damage inside showed a calamity caused not by political strife, but by a mundane yet deadly combination of overcrowding and visible construction problems.

20.   Were they done in by political strife or societal unrest?