Sentence examples for faltering popularity from inspiring English sources

But Mr Ma's faltering popularity has shown little sign of gaining lift from China's displays of goodwill since he took office in 2008, which included the launch of direct cross-strait flights and a free-trade agreement.

Dugdale's agenda, intended to help strengthen her party's faltering popularity while undermining preparations by Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish government for a possible second independence referendum, echoes proposals from the former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown.

Critics have accused Mr Putin of using the anniversary to boost his faltering domestic popularity with a show of international statesmanship.

It could falter, lose popularity, and flame out or sell for an unremarkable sum.

A faltering economy sent the popularity of the first president Bush into a tailspin, tumbling to 29 percent in 1992.

Soon after Bucaram was inaugurated on Aug. 10 , 1996 his popularity faltered.

Livingston Miller, the club's athletics chairman, said the pool's popularity faltered after the gym went coed.

With the faltering economy and the swelling popularity of college, the program has surpassed $11 billion a year.

As a figure of freedom, temerity, and lyrical prophecy, Smithson stirs nostalgia among artists and others in the art world, which, for all its wealth and popularity, feels increasingly constricted, faltering, and prosaic.

In 2008, Mr. McCain used his popularity in New Hampshire to rescue his faltering campaign.

A major reason for the growing popularity of such ads is the faltering economy, on the theory that when times are hard, you should hit your opponent harder.