1.  A dominant party can eventually lose support and become a competitor in a multiparty system.

2.  Far into the next century, Du Bois lost support of many black church people when he espoused the creed of Marxism.

3.  Successive Democratic presidents built on that idea until it reached its apotheosis under Carter and finally lost public support.

4.  The Freedom party had already lost support last October and December in two provincial elections.

5.  The mainstream political parties are losing support to smaller, more radical organizations.

6.  The Mayor has lost support in many precincts of the city.

7.  The President has lost the support of Congress.

8.  In the end most protest movements lose support and wither away.

9.  He is rapidly losing the support of blue-collar voters and of middle-class conservatives.