1.   After Morris simply taking hold of the goods is not an appropriation, if the owner agrees to that.

2.   Among Bombay officials worried at the risk of the Surat epidemic taking hold here, this, at least, has been a source of comfort.

3.   But although it is difficult to imagine true fundamentalism taking hold in Turkey, there is a palpable increase in religious consciousness here.

4.   But beyond the convention hall, out in the country where the voters are, the strange idea is taking hold that Gore is the opponent, not Clinton.

5.   Peter Montgomery, a youth worker, disputed the rosy picture Patten painted of community policing taking hold here.

6.   Reality, it seemed, was having a hard time taking hold.

7.   The idea of cruising in European waters is taking hold this year.