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Popularity in sentence

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This, in turn, gives him a substantial popularity dividend to add to his store.
In fact, the pressures only added to the station’s popularity among Arab viewers.
Despite its popularity, however, Al Jazeera has not succeeded financially.
Although no one has yet caught up to Al Jazeera’s news and current affairs popularity, the Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Center has introduced a successful 24-hour station, Al Arrabiyeh, which is challenging Al Jazeera’s lead.
Putin is getting the same bump in popularity from his Crimean adventure that then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got from the Falklands War in 1982.
According to opinion polls, Nicolas Sarkozy’s popularity is at the lowest point seen in decades for a French president.
With strong majorities in both houses, he should be able to secure whatever reform legislation he needs – that is, provided that he can maintain the LDP’s internal discipline (his enormous popularity will help him).
Holding the 1994 World Cup in the United States increased soccer’s popularity there and led to the creation of Major League Soccer in 1996.
Merkel’s high-handed refusal even to consider broader European interests if these threaten her domestic popularity has become a recurring nightmare for other EU leaders.
However, only the dishonest politician equates politics exclusively with popularity.
What explains Trump’s popularity?
Indeed, Putin has taken advantage of his legitimacy, popularity, and working majority in the State Duma (federal parliament) to force through radical tax reform and a continued tight fiscal policy in the 2001 budget.
Beyond Europe this is true even for the recently acclaimed Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva, to say nothing of Mexican President Vicente Fox and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, the latter having called for a referendum to help arrest his sinking popularity.
As a rule however, referenda measure the popularity of political leaders at a particular moment, regardless of the issue at stake.
Leaders themselves need the nerve to take often precarious parliamentary majorities through the troughs of popularity.
Leaders who never risk their popularity are not worth their position.
But the popularity of the handout option raises an important and instructive question: just how did the ruling classes in these countries amass fortunes so large that people are clamoring for them to be redistributed?
This will create considerable opportunities for obstruction and delay from the anti-Brexit majority there, at a time when a slowdown– a direct result of the Brexit vote – will be sapping the government’s popularity.
Then again, if the Labour Party continues to tear itself apart and May’s current popularity holds up, she could call an early election.
Syriza, a radical left-wing party whose popularity has skyrocketed amid the country’s economic crisis, is the favorite to win, though it is unlikely to gain enough parliamentary seats to govern alone.
Putin’s popularity, which remains high, rests on a social compact requiring the government to deliver financial stability and a slowly but steadily rising standard of living.
Pakistan, well aware of Abdullah’s popularity and worried that Nehru was right about the outcome, ignored the UN mandate and refused to withdraw.
The recent popularity of so-called impact investment funds, which promise to deliver decent returns while advancing social or environmental goals, is based on this unease.
In any case, her popularity ratings have dropped to remarkably low levels.
Though he took power in a bloodless coup, there was little doubt about his popularity at the time.
Musharraf admitted on television this year, “Yes, my popularity has been reduced.”
In 2000, the EU’s executive arm – responding in part to the growing popularity of anti-immigrant and neo-Nazi political parties – enacted the most far-reaching anti-discrimination legislation in the world.
Given its popularity among Lebanese Shia, Hezbollah could continue as an influential political party, but it would have to abandon its role as a major proxy force for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
In Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Austria, and Sweden, too, the popularity of populist, anti-EU, anti-migrant right-wing parties is on the rise.
Although the SLD’s popularity remained high, the previously fragmented right prevailed due to temporary unity.
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