21.  Most Americans are too polite, too wary of potential differences and too isolated from one another to venture into political waters with strangers.

22.  No careful testing of the political waters back home.

23.  Now, half a century later, he appears equally calm in turbulent political waters.

24.  Privately, a frustrated Kennedy has fretted to advisers about the steady erosion of his image as a result of the long months of political water torture.

25.  Should leaders use polls to test the political waters before making important decisions?

26.  Since his election to the City Council six years ago, Lawrence Warden has developed an image as a courtly, soft-spoken official who rarely stirs the political waters.

27.  Some critics contend Bush actually is more concerned with calming the political waters for his brother.

28.  Stan Shih is one of several captains of industry here who have been caught in the treacherous political waters between Taipei and Beijing.

29.  The case had attracted considerable attention and protest from groups who charged police brutality and racial insensitivity, and it roiled political waters statewide.

30.  The death of his wife has resulted in an outpouring of sympathy that more or less lets him glide over rough political waters.