1.   In the faces of rural voters and impassioned candidates there is palpable evidence that people care who wins and loses.

2.   Not in the fundamentalist spirit, they draw their accounts both from the Gospels and from more palpable evidence.

3.   When survivors are denied palpable evidence of death, the process of grief may be stalled.

4.   Yet even as the clergy members sought to reassure church members, there was palpable evidence of the toll the ordeal was taking on some worshipers.

5.   But State Department spokesman James Rubin made clear a suspension of air strikes depended on palpable evidence of withdrawals.