Sentence examples for among his compatriots from inspiring English sources

But Oliver has another chance to find a television audience among his compatriots: his show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, also starts on Tuesday on Sky Atlantic.

Now the revered "father" of Pakistan's bomb is campaigning for release, and he seems to have many admirers among his compatriots.

He acknowledged the E.U.'s unpopularity among his compatriots, saying, "Public disillusionment with the E.U. is at an all-time high" and people "wonder what the point of it all is".

But Mr. Droit was better known among his compatriots for having been the sole interviewer of General de Gaulle in the three television interviews that the general granted during his lifetime.

M. Hubert came under the limelight, and, incidentally, caused some amusement among his compatriots, when he called upon the police last summer to enforce Article 214 of the French civil code, which says that a wife must live with her husband and follow him wherever he goes.

There has been manifest grief in Spain since he died on Saturday, yet he often said that he felt far more appreciated in Britain than he did in his own country, and could be downright chippy at times about what he felt was, among his compatriots, insufficient respect for his achievements.

Armey's logic is perfect indeed, but logic is not the rage among his ideological compatriots this year.

The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, for example, has won a critical following for his piquant, melancholy and formally witty dissections of sexual anxiety and professional anomie among his youngish compatriots, with a special emphasis on the self-pitying awfulness of modern South Korean men.

However, Słowacki's poems, written in the 1820s, were unpopular among his Polish compatriots, as they failed to capture the sentiment of a people living under foreign occupation.

He brought Pope John Paul II to Prague, overcoming a neurotic anti-Catholicism and secularism among some of his compatriots, who harboured lively resentments of the counter-Reformation and priestly privilege.His record at home was more mixed.

He talks circles around Washington legislators as effortlessly as his compatriots among the self-proclaimed Merchants of Death: the alcohol lobbyist Polly Bailey Maria Belloo) and the gun lobbyist Bobby Jay Bliss David Koechnerr).