1.   Although from different ends of the political spectrum, Mr Kohl and Mitterrand enjoyed a long-standing and close personal friendship.

2.   Army officers whose commissions were based on nothing more than a personal friendship with Santa Anna were relieved of their commands.

3.   Malcolm Wilcox was drawn to Crocker through his personal friendship with its chairman, Thomas Wilcox.

4.   Kinship links through frequent intermarriage and numerous personal friendships cemented the bonds that gave Wigston and similar places a real sense of belonging to a community.

5.   Although he served eight years in the Senate and eight years in the House, Gore does not have strong personal friendships in the Congress.

6.   At their first summit last February, Fox and Bush began forging a personal friendship and appointed a high-level commission to address illegal immigration.

7.   Actually, Higginson was a stocky man admired for the warmth of his personal friendships.

8.   But Clinton dwelt more on their personal friendship, noting that they had discussed her Senate campaign by phone as recently as a week ago.

9.   But Bush is also discovering that a personal friendship is not enough to create the political environment required to turn their broad, mutual agenda into action.

10.   But I doubt that personal friendship has moved Putin to compromise on so many fronts.