But sometimes this passion boils over into unacceptable confrontations or, depending on how you see them, highly amusing childish fiascos.
With the global economy slowing, prices soaring for oil and food and protectionist passions boiling up everywhere, it is an especially dangerous time to give up on international trade negotiations.
PAGE A20 PARTICULARLY BAD TIMING With the global economy slowing, prices soaring for oil and food and protectionist passions boiling up everywhere, it is an especially dangerous time to give up on international trade negotiations.
Seething passions boil over, and the results are messy.
His passions boil up quickly and end abruptly, like tornadoes.
But if their passions boil over this spring, it will be up to the officials and the league to keep the games under control.
At the end of 1912, as theological passions boiled over and war crackled through the Balkans, he returned from a six-month absence to find that sentiment in St Andrew's, his monastic house, was overwhelmingly on the side of the name-glorifiers and his abbot, a name-fighter, had been voted out but would not quit his cell.
The latent passions boiled over when Cian Healy stamped on Dan Cole's ankle at a ruck, triggering a melee of grabbing and shoving, while Farrell was lucky not to be sin-binned for dragging back his man without the ball.
Demonstrations in central London would be very large, but more importantly hunt sabotage already a common phenomenon and something dating back to 1963 would dramatically increase, becoming increasingly violent as passions boiled on both sides.
This is not a Mets-Yankees type rivalry, with passions often boiling over.
