41.   The guidelines were approved by the government because of wide acceptance of the practice by both the medical community and Dutch society.

42.   Ironically, the wide acceptance of widow Kumaratunga by the rank and file in the SLFP saw her younger quitting the party last year to join the governing UNP.

43.   But a radically different philosophy has been circulating in the City, and is gaining increasingly wide acceptance.

44.   The prime minister has promised to correct drawbacks in the free-market policies, which have been acclaimed abroad but are yet to win wide acceptance at home.