1.   Membership is gained consciously or unconsciously and it is often difficult to determine the time when a person becomes a member.

2.   Poland was eager to gain full membership in the European Union.

3.   If this is the standard to which I have to drop to gain membership, then count me out!

4.   Increasing the contribution rate is not the answer to gaining mass membership to the Party.

5.   As part of its conciliatory gestures, South Korea has tried to help North Korea gain membership in the development bank.

6.   A serious interest in salps gains you membership in a fairly small club, and so Madin soon moved to Woods Hole to work with Harbison.

7.   China may now gain membership as soon as November, a spokesman for the trade group said.

8.   Despite the downturn, unions continued to gain membership in service industries and among government workers.

9.   Faithful workers, a number of whom gained coveted membership in the Communist Party, spent their careers at the mill and their graduating children often entered it too.

10.   Faithful workers, a number of whom gained coveted membership in the Communist Party, spent their careers at the mill.