31.   On the streets, though, jihad is gaining currency as a slogan among opponents of the air strikes.

32.   One approach that seems to be gaining currency in Washington and Jerusalem, to isolate Arafat and sap him of authority, is chimerical and dangerous.

33.   Prevention is the cheapest and most effective way to treat any illness, but the concept has not gained much currency here.

34.   Plans to link Social Security to the stock market are gaining some currency in Congress despite warnings that a market downturn could mean financial disaster for some retirees.

35.   Shepard lost his life at a time when describing homosexuality as a sickness that needs curing is gaining political currency.

36.   Sometimes words and phrases gain currency simply because they are picturesque.

37.   Some supplement-backers maintain that lack of conclusive studies is a bugaboo foisted by the medical establishment in order to keep alternative approaches from gaining currency.

38.   Such fringe thinking has hardly gained currency.

39.   Style tribes as a concept is gaining currency.

40.   Such attacks will gain currency in the media, on the Senate floor and in the White House briefing room.