1.   The one serious rift in the trip had been over Northern Ireland.

2.   Both are stalled, with serious rifts over federalizing airport security officers and giving tax cuts to corporations.

3.   But in an interview later that year, Watkins dismissed talk of a serious rift.

4.   Failure to pass the measure might also lead to a serious rift with Beijing, which has long pushed to eliminate the annual trade review.

5.   Israeli newspapers are all carrying stories of a serious rift between the prime minister and his foreign minister.

6.   Serious rifts over certain provisions remain.

7.   That partly explains how some companies manage to overcome serious rifts that would doom a human relationship.

8.   To risk a serious long-term rift with China makes sense only if the United States expects China to implode, like the Soviet Union.

9.   Washington and Beijing were engaged in their first serious rift since the Bush administration took office.

10.   But in an interview with the AP later that year, Watkins dismissed talk of a serious rift.