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Other indices--such as sharply declining membership rolls--confirm that parties have become unpopular.
After all, unpopular parties and falling electoral turnout may merely be passing phenomena.
One explanation for this commonality is that launching a public campaign against a powerless, unpopular group like drug users is an easy way for a leader to mask other shortcomings.
Indeed, in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, government and parliament alike were unpopular.
Yes, they are divided, unpopular, and devoid of international representation, but the ups and downs of guerrilla warfare are well known; the only truly dead guerrilla fighter is one who is buried.
The system is unfair, inefficient, and unpopular.
He dare not be a herald of unpopular truths which, though perhaps in humanity’s interest, most of the electorate do not see as in their interest at the present time, or may even regard as antagonistic to their pursuits.
A politician should also seek to win people over to his own ideas even when unpopular.
Leaders would have to show courage, offering highly unpopular compromises on some key issues of contention.
Politicians simply prefer to keep the burden on monetary policy and avoid pursuing difficult or unpopular policies – including structural reforms, debt restructuring, and the recapitalization of banks – aimed at boosting market access and flexibility, even if it means undermining medium-term growth.
But by linking both parties to his very unpopular self, Yeltsin damaged both.
For example, America was extraordinarily unpopular at the time of the Vietnam War, yet it recovered its soft power within a decade, and it is interesting to consider why.
America's recovery from unpopular policies in the past, such as the Vietnam War, took place against the backdrop of the Cold War, in which allied countries feared the Soviet Union as a greater evil.
Though such taxes are spectacularly unpopular – perhaps because individuals refuse to admit that the externalities they themselves create are significant – I regard them as an important direction for future policy (and I intend to suggest other ideas along these lines in future columns).
He was hyper-partisan, ran against public sentiment on issues like gay marriage and restoring knighthoods, and constantly alienated his ministerial colleagues with solo “captain’s picks” in support of unpopular people and policies.
The American and British governments, increasingly unpopular at home, desperately needed some tangible evidence of progress to assuage their domestic critics and to begin to speak openly of an exit strategy.
The withdrawal of QE, beyond being unpopular among some policymakers and politicians, has highlighted concerns about the risk of increased financial instability and rising inequality – both of which could undermine America’s already weak economic recovery.
Increasing taxes is not only unpopular; it can be counter-productive, given already-high taxation in many countries.
Abiding by European rules should go without saying, even if that means adopting unpopular austerity measures at home.
A Dutch No would signal rejection of a corporatist Europe dominated by French and German interests, as well as representing a protest against the unpopular conservative and moralistic policies of the Balkenende government.
France is not the only EU country with an unpopular leader.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon unilaterally imposed tariffs on America’s allies without warning, violated the framework of the International Monetary Fund, and pursued an unpopular war in Vietnam.
Protectionist trade measures often hurt poor countries most, and foreign assistance is generally unpopular with the American public.
And the anti-Iran efforts have become inseparable from what has become an unpopular war in Yemen and diplomatic embarrassments in Lebanon and Qatar.
It is becoming unpopular to express support for intensifying eastward economic links, as this could strengthen potential competitors.
Like Blah, Mnangagwa is widely unpopular, and he lost his parliamentary seat in the 2001 general election.
But fighting terrorists requires an entirely different kind of spying from "uncovering" traditional "spies," or neutralizing unpopular oligarchs such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Moreover, policymakers often hide behind (real or imagined) competitive pressures emanating from the global economy to justify their lack of responsiveness to popular demands, and cite the same pressures when implementing unpopular policies such as fiscal austerity.
This would, to be sure, be unpopular, particularly among China’s neighbors.
With this artificial boost to their economic growth, they had little incentive to press ahead with unpopular reforms in line with the European Union’s Lisbon agenda.
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