51.   In the supercharged atmosphere of the civil rights movement, whites were determined to keep blacks from registering to vote and gaining political power.

52.   In the new millennium, presidents will be sorely challenged to gain power, to keep power and to get things done.

53.   In the south, he faces restive Pashtuns who say they did gain enough power from the loya jirga.

54.   Instead of gaining power, the play drifts off.

55.   Indeed, economic pluralism is one bulwark of hope for a more or less democratic Russia, even if communists gain more power.

56.   It has little prospect of gaining power through victory on the battlefield.

57.   It also may have lifted the fortunes of Prime Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov, who has gained power with every ball Yeltsin has dropped.

58.   It made ethno-racial identity a source for gaining culture power, but it also turned it into a trap.

59.   It was trying to gain power as a programming packager and marketer.

60.   It promised to favor foreign investment should it gain power at the next regular election -- and there were regular elections.