The minorities say they are being swept aside in the latest case of nationalist passions by a Soviet republic's majority group.

And recent developments promise that getting the art back will be a long, messy business that evokes deep nationalist passions.

They need to build up nationalist passions among their people and give them something besides their ruler to hate.

But nationalist passions are running high, and it is not clear whether the Chechen rebel commanders can fully control them.

He hoped to curb separatist tendencies and mitigate nationalist passions.

He is a resilient music professor turned politician by some entirely hidden wellspring of personal nationalist passion.

It is quite possible that nationalist passions will subside once national identities have been securely established.

Celtic nationalist passion certainly was a factor here.

It is an issue that boils with nationalist passion.

In the end, the system only sharpened nationalist passions.