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Plunging oil prices may have wreaked havoc on Russia’s finances, but so far Putin’s popularity seems unaffected.
Barghouti’s popularity also stems from his refusal from the beginning to take any office in Arafat’s corrupt PA and its institutions.
His support for attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territories, which he argues is legitimate under international law, has earned him immense popularity among Palestinians, but also a sentence of five life terms plus 40 years in an Israeli prison.
Moreover, Muslim politicians gain popularity by siding with Islamic conservatives while their Christian rivals score political points by complaining about Sharia's extreme aspects.
Indeed, fearing the popularity of Lee Teng-hui, who ran in the 1996 presidential election on a pro-independence platform, China’s People’s Liberation Army actually fired missiles close to the nearby coast of Keelung.
The popularity of Lula Ignacia da Silva and his team, who lead opinion polls in the run-up to Brazil's presidential election, serves as a warning that much of the Latin American public is prepared to reject traditional governments.
Beyond technical criteria, ministers will still be assessed according to the influence exercised by their party or political faction, election results, and their popularity among the media and the public.
Putin's all-encompassing popularity, which is genuine, and his blurring of all political dividing lines has given him an unassailable position.
The greenback’s worldwide popularity enables the US to project power around the globe – to maintain military bases and facilities in over 100 countries, to keep naval battle groups afloat from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, and to help defend allies from Europe and the Middle East to Japan and Korea.
But, even if the polls are accurate, his popularity is largely irrelevant: dictators do not rule through a social contract, and neither his position nor his legitimacy derives from popular appeal.
Domestically, France’s victory likely will have little effect, if any, on Macron’s popularity.
She is highly respected internationally, at the height of her popularity at home, and has no rivals to fend off within her own party.
Ronald Reagan gained popularity by cutting social benefits for the poor (claiming that the poor cheated to receive extra payments).
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has tried to regain popularity with the working class by deporting Roma migrants, a target of widespread hatred and ethnic attacks.
But his persistence in pursuing this last chance at peace has clearly gained him increased popularity at home and greater respect abroad.
But if he holds on to power contrary to the constitution, his popularity could easily collapse, especially as his economic policy has thrived on luck, not reform.
The intellectual leadership provided by Frenchmen like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman as founding fathers of the European project is a fading memory, because Germany has yet to generate a comparably robust strategy for reviving the EU’s prospects and popularity.
This strategy may have prevented the dramatic fall in popularity experienced by other governments in the middle of the Great Recession, but sooner or later will backfire.
More important, Putin’s popularity rests on historically high living standards.
A surge in popularity has buttressed his new strategy of governing by decree.
Chen’s popularity among his party followers, whose fervency often bordered on fundamentalism, changed him from a person with deep democratic instincts into a textbook case of a man who regards power and its prerogatives as being his by right.
Still, his popularity remains undented.
Digital IDs that use microchips, fingerprints, or iris scans could prove useful – and are already gaining popularity – in emerging economies.
According to the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a Seoul-based think tank, Koreans gave Trump exceptionally low approval ratings during his 2016 presidential campaign, and his popularity remains at rock-bottom levels.
Three Paths to AmericaPresident George W. Bush’s free-falling popularity, his loss of control over Congress, the nagging doubts about the economy, and most of all his discredited reputation as a result of the debacle in Iraq all magnify the characteristic weakness of lame-duck American presidents.
The main objective of the new prime ministers and cabinet members is to regain popularity for their parties.
But his immense popularity over the past five years suggests that most Bolivians do not seem very worried in putting their country’s democracy at risk.
Goodbye to “Globalization”FLORENCE – The term “globalization” first swept the world in the 1990’s and reached its highpoint of popularity in 2000 and 2001.
Perhaps the collapsing popularity of the right in our new democracies tells something about the right in Europe's old democracies.
The public below, just like the leaders above, cherish political stability; the popularity ratings of both Prime Minister Putin and President Dmitri Medvedev remain above 70%.
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