1.   The drumbeat of the Gingrich case had poisoned the atmosphere in the House for weeks.

2.   His angry outburst poisoned the atmosphere of the party.

3.   A bipartisan group of legislators today outlined an upcoming retreat designed to help rid the corrosive partisanship which recently has been poisoning the atmosphere on Capitol Hill.

4.   By publicly ruling out any division of Jerusalem from the beginning of the summit, the Palestinians have said, Barak poisoned the atmosphere and doomed the talks.

5.   Either way, the dispute poisoned the atmosphere in The Hague.

6.   Even Hatteberg, as good-natured a person as you can find, was not immune to the toxic fumes that poisoned the atmosphere in Boston.

7.   It accuses Israel and its U.S. supporters of poisoning the atmosphere between Washington and Cairo and of subtly threatening to have U.S. foreign aid to Egypt cut off.

8.   Officials have said they do not want to poison the atmosphere, since many hope that a new summit meeting can be arranged later.

9.   Speaker Sheldon Silver of Manhattan, a Democrat who is leader of the Assembly, said Pataki had poisoned the atmosphere in Albany.

10.   The atmosphere was also poisoned by anti-Semitism directed at the many Jewish members of the UFT.