31.   The prospect has won applause from environmental groups.

32.   The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is one of the few agencies that win general applause.

33.   This new exercise in cheap grace will win them applause from the anti-technology left and will not cost them a thing.

34.   Those works traced the tragicomic foibles of poor whites and won the applause of leading critics who ranked Caldwell with Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Mark Twain.

35.   This restraint won international applause, and was followed by a massive diplomatic effort to persuade world leaders that Pakistan was the aggressor, which left Pakistan isolated.

36.   Thomas will win little applause in the Republican caucus for embracing the proposition that what America needs is another federal entitlement.

37.   While those actions won some applause, Congress has voiced increasing concern that the NATO troops will be drawn into full-scale combat.

38.   Philippine President Joseph Estrada wins applause for his comments on human rights.

39.   A floor-length cream wool coat worn under a knit top with cross-over back won applause.

40.   After becoming finance minister, he set cutback targets that invoked sharp protest from welfare traditionalists but won applause from businesses and financial markets.