1.   The early enthusiasm of foreign banks and investors waned as the government caved in to their opposition.

2.   Learning a language is hard work, and your early enthusiasm May soon wear off.

3.   THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory.

4.   A new project by Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson goes far toward recapturing the early modern enthusiasm for glass.

5.   But even these have gone out of style in recent months as the early enthusiasm for China has been replaced by cynicism.

6.   In Washington, early enthusiasm in the Clinton administration for multilateral action went underground.

7.   It does, however, suggest that the early enthusiasm for any merger does not guarantee comparable enthusiasm down the road.

8.   Other Republicans say the early enthusiasm for mass destruction is clearly waning.

9.   The California battle comes as the early enthusiasm for deregulation is running into opposition in a few states.

10.   The early enthusiasm, he added, was typically followed by a sobering reassessment, further technological advances, new rounds of enthusiasm and commercial development.