After having a considerable popular success, the drama was banned in Germany and condemned in France.
Whether as a result of the caution of advertisers or of the personal prejudices of network bosses, mass-entertainment television comedy has been firmly rooted in the past — a synthetic, Hollywood-style, show-business past — despite the fact that the new forms of comedy have demonstrated a considerable popular appeal.
For much of the first half of the 20th century Mars was an object of considerable popular fascination largely because the possibility of intelligent life there had yet to be ruled out.
The extremist group has suffered a series of battlefield setbacks but still controls considerable territory and remains a formidable force, with considerable popular support in some areas, analysts say.
To his own librettos he produced, in a variety of styles, a series of melodramas and tragedies of considerable popular appeal, among them The Medium (1946), The Consul (1950), Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951; composed for television performance), and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954), two of which won Pulitzer Prizes.
The Administration's short list for the nomination reportedly included several respected appellate-court judges who might have had considerable popular appeal; there was a woman (Jane Kelly), an African-American (Paul Watford), and a member of a small but growing immigrant group (Sri Srinivasan, an Indian-American).
For all his autocratic tendencies, the officials conceded, Mr. Fujimori has managed to bring a measure of peace and prosperity to the country, enjoys considerable popular support and has been a stalwart in Washington's largely futile battle against drug producers.
Despite a big decline in recent years, ETA still enjoys considerable popular support, especially among young Basques.
11 alliance with the West, has lost considerable popular support as he has forced a series of dramatic changes on this Islamic country at the behest of his foreign allies, according to recent interviews with dozens of Pakistanis.
Mr O'Neill has a large majority in parliament, the support of senior public servants and considerable popular backing.
Full EU membership is a long-term objective of some in the Swiss government, but there is considerable popular sentiment against this supported by the conservative SVP party.
