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Most of his policies would amazingly unpopular and, it must be said, wrong.
FOR THE BOYS might just be a "Better Midler" film today, in a period of another middle east war and albeit a more tragic and unpopular one with a far more critical and on going media focus than the first 1991 war.....This exceptionally well made musical drama, made for about $70 million in 1991 and really a protest musical parable, did not reach the intended at the time and the first Iraq war was over before this film had a chance to make an impact.
As Japanese or other Asian mostly unpopular in this country, I guessed that this wouldn't charm almost any one people here.
Yes, he'll make his point of view known, but an unpopular one?
I liked how it was through the thoughts of someone who was unpopular, and was picked on and had jokes played on him.
Students of cultural history will find this film interesting as an example of why screen musicals became unpopular for a time.
I understand that Gangs was an unpopular movie because of it's incredibly violent themes, but the sentimentality the Academy has towards movie-musicals is a ridiculous justification of how trite films like Chicago can win Best Picture.
I am sure this will be an unpopular review, but I really did NOT like this movie.
Honest discussion of unpopular ideas is a key feature of an open society.
Without control of the House, however, Trump will no longer be able to enact any unpopular legislation.
Once a German Chancellor becomes unpopular regardless of why these party organizations no longer view him as a vote-winner, and the parliamentary majoritys barons will balk at implementing painful reforms, no matter how necessary and beneficial.
Juppé, whose efforts nearly 20 years ago to impose badly needed reforms made him one of the country’s most unpopular politicians, might be forgiven a bit of schadenfreude.
And bank bailouts, involving the direct use of public money to recapitalize failing institutions, are even more costly and politically unpopular.
If reforms become broadly unpopular or expose dangerous divisions within the leadership, the government will have good reason to divert public attention from controversies at home by picking fights abroad.
Instead, with the popularity of the country’s two largest political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats, falling fast, Germany’s leaders are unlikely to push an unpopular deal.
In the days following the attacks in Istanbul, Turks across the board condemned this brutal violence: there was no (or only negligible) blame-the-victim sentiment toward Turkish Jews (or toward Israel) or toward the British and Americans, whose war in Iraq is extremely unpopular in Turkey.
They argued that, because the reforms were unpopular, they needed to be imposed on the public, rather than being impeded by excessively democratic processes.
The damage caused by certain unpopular reforms lasted far longer than the reforms themselves.
Doing nothing means allowing US investment funds to pursue enormous compensation cases – likely in the billions of dollars – against a future Ukrainian administration, which, even in the best-case scenario, will be on weak domestic political footing and already saddled with an unpopular austerity program and loan-repayment schedule.
It means taking responsibility for hard strategic choices even when these are unpopular at home.
But even in many countries in those regions, Chinese practices like importing labor for infrastructure projects are unpopular.
In addition to generating good will and promoting the country’s image abroad, non-governmental sources of soft power can sometimes compensate for the government’s unpopular policies – like the US invasion of Iraq – through their critical and uncensored reaction.
The Iraq War was not the first government policy that made the US unpopular.
The Democratic and Republican candidates are doing all they can to distinguish themselves from an unpopular incumbent president and from one another in the remaining weeks before Americans vote.
Europe is unpopular.
Despite the importance of social media in fomenting revolution, and even in deposing deeply unpopular leaders, governing in the real world is not as easy as governing online.
Obama and his congressional allies enacted an $800 billion “stimulus” bill that was loaded with programs geared to key Democratic constituencies, such as environmentalists and public employees; adopted a sweeping and highly unpopular health-care reform (whose constitutionality will be determined by the Supreme Court this year); imposed vast new regulations on wide swaths of the economy; embraced an industrial policy that selects certain companies for special treatment; engaged in borrowing and spending at levels exceeded only in World War II; and centralized power in Washington, DC (and, within the federal government, in the executive branch and regulatory agencies).
Conservatives demand lower taxes, but this is unpopular: almost 65% of Swedes live on public salaries or social transfers.
Instead of highlighting the country’s real needs – serious land reform, an anti-corruption drive, and freeing the economy from oligarchic control – she may instead be drawn into defending an unpopular minority.
But almost all of the Republicans on the committee were prepared to push his nomination through quickly: though he was an unpopular choice, he had the support of the Republican base, including much of the Christian right.
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