The idea of having rice as the centerpiece of a restaurant meal is not winning adherents everywhere.

Proposals for a millionaire's tax won few adherents in the Legislature last year, but this year opposition began to melt quickly.

This theory never won scientific adherents since the earth's equatorial bulge makes the spin too stable for any sudden change.

But you do need enough imaginative sympathy to comprehend how it won adherents and supporters.

This lack of an effective Government presence is often cited as the reason rebels can so easily win adherents.

In 1993 it created a cable set-top box that failed to win adherents.

The schools have won adherents to Shas's religious and political agendas among the working poor.

The trains' speed, and the fact that weather does not intervene, has been winning adherents.

That the pictorials had been created by the widely reviled Johnson administration was scarcely likely to win them adherents.

His was a quiet, friendly manner, effective in winning adherents to his side.