31.   A measure in the Legislature that would make California the first state to regulate carbon dioxide and other tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases is losing support.

32.   A group of Republican doctors has urged Republican Congressmen not to resist additional regulations on tobacco, because they will lose support nationally.

33.   Administration officials have expressed frustration that the United States is losing public support for the war on terrorism, especially in the Islamic world.

34.   But after the killing of one of their own in fighting here, they said, they had to respond or risk losing support.

35.   But if Clinton refuses to move toward the Republicans, he risks losing the support of dozens of moderate and conservative Democrats.

36.   But if Europe is coalescing, the developing nations are in disarray, having lost the support of Moscow in confrontations with the richer industrialized countries.

37.   But many other sites, including Slate and EncyclopediaBritannica.com, abandoned subscription efforts, and still others like TheStreet.com are rapidly losing support.

38.   But more recently, they appear to have lost popular support and have been weakened by the government campaign as well as by serious internal disputes.

39.   But opponents maintained the Senate measure began to lose support after two days of debate.

40.   But the argument has lost public support in educational dead zones where graduation rates sometimes linger in the single digits.