1.  Crop Revenue Coverage is the first privately developed alternative crop insurance to gain approval from the Agriculture Department, the company said.

2.  Gaining approval, competing for scarce resources, and obtaining cooperation require managers to develop bases of power beyond positional authority.

3.  He or she must gain approval from others, outside formal authority channels, to implement a staff project.

4.  If federal approval is gained soon, the trial could start as early as January.

5.  In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval.

6.  It seemed speaking when you felt like it was a way to gain approval.

7.  The procedure has not gained formal approval by the International Olympic Committee because it does not give conclusive proof of drug use.

8.  A proposal by the opposition Labour Party for a more extensive package failed to gain parliamentary approval.