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In 2012, this growth began to wane – and so did Putin’s popularity.
In an attempt to recapture his former popularity, Putin implemented salary increases for teachers, doctors, and police officers, putting regional budgets under strain in the process.
And, contrary to the regime’s expectations, the Winter Olympics in Sochi also failed to revive Putin’s popularity.
With the economy showing no sign of recovering the robust growth rates that had bolstered Putin’s popularity in the past, regaining support would have required undertaking the daunting task of fulfilling citizens’ demands for better education, improved health-care services, and more affordable housing.
So the results have been hailed as a victory for the BJP, affirming Modi’s popularity and vindicating his leadership – including of the campaign itself.
Rousseff’s popularity has plummeted in the wake of public protests over spending on the World Cup, together with a sharp economic slowdown.
But, in recent years, the popularity of defamation lawsuits has declined, in favor of accusations of extremism and inciting hatred.
Having gained remarkable popularity in the space of only a few years, UKIP threatened to alter the British political landscape.
Indeed, its popularity is due not only to its fundamentalist Islamic ideology and its commitment to the destruction of Israel.
New Battlegrounds in Development FinancePRETORIA – The popularity of public-private partnerships (PPPs) to support infrastructure development in emerging countries is growing worldwide.
Reforming China’s Commanding HeightsMILAN – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s massive anti-corruption campaign has advanced a number of key objectives: It has gone a long way toward restoring confidence in the Communist Party’s commitment to a merit-based system; countered a decades-old pattern of public-sector domination; reduced the power of vested interests to block reform; and bolstered Xi’s popularity among private-sector actors, if far less so with the bureaucracy.
The implication of Marx’s renewed popularity is that capitalism is now universally accepted as being fundamentally broken, with the financial system at the heart of the problem.
We are not seeking ostentatious posts and cheap popularity.
Nonetheless, the regime, still fearing her popularity, is playing the race and religion card in order to discredit her and her party, the National League for Democracy, which won all but one of the parliamentary seats contested in the recent general election (and swept the annulled 1990 election).
Actors succeeded or failed not on the basis of popularity, but on the state’s direction; imagine a world with only one movie studio deciding which stars to promote.
Perhaps it fears that its popularity will further decline, and would prefer to go into elections while it still has the advantages of counting the votes, controlling state television, and establishing electoral districts.
The new government was itself soon ensnared in corruption scandals, and its popularity plummeted.
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made the same mistake in May 1970, when he tried to take advantage of Labour’s popularity.
In 1982, Thatcher was at the height of her popularity, having just declared victory in the Falklands War.
And while she was not required to call an election before May 1984, she could conceivably have parlayed her enormous popularity into another five-year term.
Instead, she waited, despite the risk that future policy failures might erode her popularity.
On the other hand, if Thatcher had not been confident about her policies, she would have had a stronger incentive to cash in on her popularity by calling a snap election, lest she jeopardize her chances down the road.
By calling the election a year early, they avoided a scenario in which worsening inflation would have sapped the Conservatives’ popularity.
All else being equal, competent governments will wait longer before going to the electorate, whereas insecure leaders will try to capitalize on their popularity when they have it.
While he continued to enjoy respect and admiration abroad, if only for continuing his fight against human-right abuses around the world, his popularity at home was shaken.
The EU was at its apogee at the time, lifted by the new euro and the ambitious “Big Bang” eastward enlargement of 2004; so the chances of securing change today, when the EU is at its nadir of popularity, would at first sight seem even more unlikely.
Here, he resembles former US President Reagan, whose popularity was rooted in an ability to feel the pulse of the public more accurately than his opponents.
The bottom line is that Uribe thought Santos would do his bidding as president, and Santos is convinced that his (high but declining) popularity is of his own making, not borrowed from Uribe.
The European elections are themselves curious and unsatisfactory; there are no obvious EU-wide issues that people can vote for or against, and, with the average MEP’s constituency numbering well over half a million people, the vote is not a test of personal popularity, either.
To understand Zidane’s popularity, one need only set his modesty and attention to others against the arrogance and indifference that characterize the behavior of so many other celebrities, including football players.
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