11.   It has no oil-covered birds or dying seals to fire public passions.

12.   The economy and the social agenda could ascend if the intensity of public passion subsides and the antiterrorism campaign takes on more routine characteristics.

13.   The governing Communist Party appeared to be attempting to harness public passions to its own use.

14.   The same public passion and political will must now be summoned to confront the global greenhouse effect.

15.   Rightly or wrongly, few subjects arouse greater public passions than the future of the monarchy and the conduct of the royal family.

16.   Public passions in Turkey run high against Ocalan, reviled by the government as a butcher responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the Kurdish conflict.

17.   The case threatens to inflame public passions just as Britain is trying to make peace with the Irish Republican Army.

18.   With public passions inflamed by a grisly sex-murder trial, death penalty supporters are demanding a national referendum on reinstating capital punishment in Canada.