1.   The United States overestimated its technological superiority and underestimated the nationalist passion of its enemy.

2.   And at the heart of this nationalist passion is the goal of retaking Taiwan.

3.   But given the unresolved issues, nationalist passions and political divisions, the simultaneous maintenance of a balance of power is required to discourage a resort to force.

4.   But nationalist passions are running high, and it is not clear whether the Chechen rebel commanders can fully control them.

5.   But nationalist passions over Nagorno-Karabakh, not economic realities, seem to be propelling the presidential race.

6.   Each built his own political fortune on a base of nationalist passions that he stirred up among his countrymen when communism collapsed.

7.   It is a place where religious fervor and nationalist passions have often mixed explosively, and the idea now is to reduce the chances for sudden combustion.

8.   Since the early Industrial Revolution, it has been argued that economic interdependence would prove stronger than nationalist passions.

9.   Some feel that the breakup of the Soviet Union inspired nationalist passions around the world.

10.   Their appeals, however, fell on deaf ears in a parliament that is more attuned to nationalist passions than to the niceties of international relations.