31.   He did win a few friends in the fourth inning on this visit when he singled to right.

32.   He has had to win friends and influence prominent people as he has overcome roadblocks along the way.

33.   He won few friends by gratuitously taking a potshot at Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a popular and admired New Hampshire resident.

34.   He wondered aloud about the blocking earlier in the season, which did not win friends in the locker room.

35.   I guess I do have an ability to win friends and influence people.

36.   In her presidential campaign, for example, she supported a ban on assault weapons, a position unlikely to win friends in a Republican primary.

37.   In the business community, he was a man of integrity who won friends easily.

38.   In the process, he has won friends in the fnancial community.

39.   Judging by its diplomatic performance this month, China has decided that winning friends and influencing people requires a lighter touch.

40.   Kohl has not won friends in the process.