How long this absence will continue is the unknown that provides much of the political anxiety that exists here.

For the moment, political anxiety has been masked by bad economic news.

But there is a heightened sense of political anxiety that did not exist six years ago.

"The whole national sentiment is there now, despite all the political anxieties."

Charter revision is a dreaded undertaking, combining maximum political anxiety with a minimum of public interest.

Even if it were, it would be inappropriate for the chairman to deny the grant based on a political anxiety.

For the candidates, it was an opportunity to seize on the issue now considered to be President Bush's greatest political anxiety.

There is a political anxiety whereby all the countries apparently feel able to compromise fundamental legal principles.

Indeed, behind the substance of the flag debate is political anxiety.