11.   As his popularity has waned, he has imposed curbs on the judiciary, the media and opposition parties and many of his critics have been attacked or threatened.

12.   As his popularity has waned, he has imposed curbs on journalists and opposition parties and many of his critics have been attacked and threatened with prosecution.

13.   As his popularity has waned, Mugabe has imposed curbs on the judiciary, the media and opposition parties and many of his critics have been attacked or threatened.

14.   But his popularity waned after he fired Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka in late January.

15.   But his popularity has since waned and he has also been fired.

16.   But his popularity is waning.

17.   But his popularity has waned amid widespread allegations of nepotism and corruption in his party.

18.   But their popularity has waned since Paris began granting greater local powers, and Corsicans are increasingly angry about bloodshed to settle old scores.

19.   It was the first time the loosely structured extremist movement has admitted that its popularity was waning.

20.   Lebed, whose national popularity has waned in the past year, recently submitted nominating papers to election officials in the central Siberian province of Krasnoyarsk.