Sentence examples for as a popularity from inspiring English sources

The vote was attacked by some as a popularity contest and held up as another example of Albany's dysfunction.

• Recently, M&M's introduced products tentatively, either by offering limited-edition candies or by using a movie tie-in as a popularity test.

If an American festival of Mexican music were organized as a popularity contest, then the winner would certainly be Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), whorchestraltral works "Sensemayá" and "La Noche de los Mayas" have been standard repertory for decades.

The problem, according to executives and industry analysts, is that investors had been treating electronic commerce as a popularity contest, giving the sites with the most visitors the highest stock valuations.

(Could anyone this clueless really be elected president? Insert your joke here.) But if you think of a presidential election as a popularity contest — an idea that is hardly a stretch — the concept makes sense.

It doesn't mean we should run our foreign policy as a popularity contest, but it does mean that leading is not just about making decisions -- it's also the ability to communicate, follow through and persuade.

"It's not as much a popularity contest as it was a couple of years ago," said Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina, who did not make the team.

"The idea is as old as time: a popularity contest.

Peddling "democracy" as if it were a popularity contest is what "American Idol" does.

It was dismissed by the hawkish Bush administration as a meaningless popularity contest that wimpy liberals wanted to engage in.

As a result, popularity of ridesharing is reducing energy consumption, traffic congestions and carbon emissions in cities.