(1) Politics was an abiding passion and he retained a constant devotion to his father's Liberal Party.

(2) For many Republicans, the abiding feeling of the last generation has been that this unique pattern of party competitiveness was an aberration.

(3) The partnership with Barker was forged through mutual respect before blossoming into a deep and abiding friendship in which nary a cross word was spoken.

(4) First, there's the abiding faith - eternally celebrated by the press - that compromise is always and everywhere a good thing.

(5) But one abiding feeling displayed by all, despite the circumstances, had to be optimism and an admirable acceptance.

(6) One of the legacies of this Papacy was his deep and abiding interest in matters such as the defence of human rights.

(7) One view of the Revolution has abiding power in popular memory and public culture.

(8) He had spent a political lifetime trying to instil the habits of democracy in his people - a disdain for dictators, an abiding faith in the constitutional system.

(9) The abiding memory I will carry forward from 2003 is of the Special Olympics.

(10) He had an abiding fear of fundamentalism, not a neurotic fear, but a deep horror of it.

(11) But a childhood spent dwelling on the nuances of chess has left its mark and it remains an abiding passion.

(12) Fanning is an instructive case because of his former identification with rock, which remains his abiding passion.

(13) But because a lingering doubt remained, the child's fate is of abiding interest: this is the book's premise.

(14) And while he tried to stage a graceful exit from the presidential race, there remained an abiding sense of wistfulness.

(15) However, there is some wine that does, triggering a deep and abiding feeling of well-being that is more than simple pleasure.

(16) He can never hope for lasting human contacts: abiding love, enduring friendship.

(17) You will be reminded that firefighters deserve your deep and abiding appreciation and respect for their service.

(18) His songs reflect a deep and abiding sense of the sacred eternally renewed in the common.

(19) Though his vital signs returned to normal, the abiding fear was that oxygen deprivation had caused permanent kidney or brain damage.

(20) That planted the seed of my abiding love of Westerns which is still one of my passions.

(21) Both were abidingly restless - and each spent much of his working life abroad.

(22) Surely the Levites did not imagine their work to be so abidingly important.

(23) The problem may be abidingly poor translation and localization of documents.

(24) Moreover, the fragmentary form reveals an abidingly mysterious quality in even the most conventional texts of classic Hollywood.

(25) It is abidingly important to show that this country stands for freedom for every faith.