1.   Roy Harper is one of those cult figures who never seem to lose popularity -- and his eccentric and entertaining stage presence explains why.

2.   Among residents of the capital, Kabila had steadily lost popularity since toppling Mobutu four years ago.

3.   An aide to Kouchner suggested that Thaci is losing popularity and needed to stand up to the United Nations, although he conceded there are deeper issues at stake.

4.   Arafat risks losing popularity by cracking down on his own fighters at the behest of the United States and Israel.

5.   But in the U.S., it has definitely lost its popularity, and I think if we had it less often, it would get more attention.

6.   But just as things are beginning to go right, political incumbents are losing popularity.

7.   Crab apples lost popularity because they got diseases, but there are now excellent disease-resistant ones such as Donald Wyman.

8.   Even in Japan, judo is losing popularity as children gravitate to baseball, soccer, and other Western sports.

9.   His Italian operas were losing popularity.

10.   It has survived everything from Elvis to techno and shows no sign of losing its popularity.