1.   A visit there would signal the kind of strident nationalism that alarms and angers neighbors like South Korea and China, both big markets for Japanese goods.

2.   By contrast, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, of the environmentalist Green Party, said that strident German nationalism inevitably evoked the memory of Auschwitz.

3.   In keeping with their strident nationalism, most extreme right parties are also opposed to European integration.

4.   With his anti-American diatribes, Zhirinovsky has become well known for his strident nationalism.

5.   As leader of the moderate wing of the party, Vajpayee appears uncomfortable with the strident Hindu nationalism promoted by the hardliners.

6.   The relatively strong showing by Ivanic, the Serb opposition leader, signaled many Serbs have shifted away from the strident nationalism that brought war, poverty and isolation.

7.   The strident nationalism that drove this former-Soviet republic into four civil wars in its first three years of independence has all but vanished.