1.   Bush spoke of privatizing part of Social Security, which may well have cost him support in Florida.

2.   But the tactic seems to have cost him support from women.

3.   But this position has cost him support with Fatah and elicits hostility from the more militant Islamists.

4.   Each bruising vote has cost him support, and it is thought that only a bare majority of the party still back the peace agreement.

5.   Hahn said he had no regrets over opposing Parks, even though it has cost him support in the African-American community, one of his prime political bases.

6.   He said nothing, however, about banning abortion, a conservative cause that has cost him support among Republican and independent women particularly in the suburbs.

7.   His willingness to speak out for gay rights has cost him support among some Republican colleagues.

8.   It cost him support in his home state of Tennessee.

9.   Rochon had overseen deep spending cuts that cost Bouchard support for his Parti Quebecois.

10.   Since then, an Iranian-backed Shiite opposition group that enjoys support in southern Iraq has distanced itself from INC, thus costing it support.