Sentence examples for failing popularity from inspiring English sources

The revelation that Asō Industry had used prisoner labour during World War II a charge that the prime minister had long denied contributed to his failing popularity.

Mr Yashin and other opposition activists don't call that "support" - they accuse Mr Putin of masterminding and directing the war to boost his failing popularity.

Sarah never lost her good looks and, despite failing popularity, received many offers of marriage after the death of her husband, including one from her old enemy, Charles Seymour, the sixth Duke of Somerset.

Because of basketball's popularity, failing to adopt some rule that stems the tide will flood the nation with this lesson in a way that baseball, hockey, golf and tennis never could.

(Was the pro-slavery theorist George Fitzhugh really dealing in "sound bites"?) I think it's time to declare a moratorium on scholars' denigrating other scholars for failing to achieve popularity.

And they allow investors to get "beta" (market returns) on the cheap, while active managers toil in search of "alpha" (extra returns through skill), charging more for the privilege and all too often failing to deliver.The popularity of ETFs has led to a frenzy of launches.

Megaupload could certainly have been sold as a suitable second-prize after SOPA's failing, given its popularity at the time.

8. "The alternative to legalization is sticking with a policy that has produced millions of arrests, squandered hundreds of billions of dollars and turned many harmless people into criminals in the eyes of the law -- all while failing to stem the popularity of pot.

Ibrahim Suffian, director of the Merdeka Center, an independent polling agency, said that as the governing party's popularity wanes, Malaysia is failing a key test of any democracy: the peaceful transfer of power.

The successor to longtime leader Hugo Chávez, Maduro has presided over huge opposition gains in the government while failing to capture his predecessor's popularity.

To some extent, opera's current marginality is its own fault, in failing to sustain the blend of creativity and popularity that distinguished the operatic past.