Still, it remains to be seen if the government's recent achievements can turn around the couple's ebbing popularity.
Four years ago he took advantage of ebbing Labour popularity and chanced his arm as a constituency candidate, defeating Labour's Sophie Howe.
They ebbed in popularity during the Depression, and didn't make a comeback until 1972.
Yet Mixi could not keep up in the fast-paced online gaming industry, and Monster Strike has ebbed in popularity.
The Canary Islands passed similar legislation in 1991, but only after the popularity of bullfighting had ebbed to such an extent that the rings stood virtually empty at weekends.
Though the popularity of cycling has ebbed and flowed over the last century, Seattle's outdoor aficionados - who tend to be health conscious and environmentally-minded - have always held their bicycles dear.
And Ms Royal's popularity has started to ebb, whereas that of both Mr Strauss-Kahn and Mr Fabius has edged up.
Through the last century the popularity of pop-up books ebbed and flowed with paper shortages, world wars, the quality of modern glue and the rise in the late 1960's of a cottage industry in book production.
However, while the popularity of hair jewelry has ebbed and flowed, hair workers are active today, and organizations like the Victorian Hairwork Society aim to keep it that way".
By the late 1980s, Mr. Okosuns found his popularity ebbing, but he reinvented himself as a gospel performer called Evangelist Sunny Okosuns.
Over the years, the popularity of tap dancing seems to ebb and flow, yet it always manages to stick around.
