11.   The proposal failed to gain support.

12.   The proposal that gained widest support was called the steady state theory.

13.   The splinter group rapidly gained support from discontented members.

14.   This also shows that the ejections are not necessarily triggered by solar flares, a view that has recently been gaining support.

15.   To do this it had to gain the support, both of the judiciary and the public, for its new measures.

16.   Twenty years ago when both these causes were beginning to gain wide support, many people saw them as clashing.

17.   We have swallowed our anger, presented a respectable front, in our bid to gain public support.

18.   While such concern gained support for the provision of rate-financed school meals, proposals for full state maintenance had far less backing.

19.   Politicians are always rushing around the country before an election in order to gain support.

20.   Polls show that the European treaty has gained support in Denmark.