But among Anglo officials in day-to-day contact with the miners, there is little optimism that the effort can assuage the deeper passions unleashed by the strike.

He worked effectively to calm the sectarian passions unleashed by the incident.

East and West agreed today at the opening session of the first international conference on human rights in Moscow that the greatest threat to civil liberties was now no longer Communism, but violent nationalistic passions unleashed by its collapse.

Compared with the passions unleashed by the Louima affair, the emotions are muted in this latest dispute, which was stirred by an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that includes a photograph of a nude black woman as Jesus.

If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.

Mr. Kennan himself often felt powerless against the passions unleashed by the cold war.

The NATO alliance sees those risks in nationalistic and ethnic passions unleashed by the breakup of the Soviet empire and in what the official called "very substantial conventional and nuclear forces" in the Soviet Union.

In light of all the furor and passions unleashed by the Westway controversy, the scene at the elevated highway yesterday was starkly anticlimactic.

More than 40 years of Communist dictatorship helped produce the dangerous passions now being unleashed.

Although the passions unleashed by the Satanic Verses have died down, Rushdie came to the attention of India's Hindu extremist fringe in 1995.