Sentence examples for formidable popularity from inspiring English sources

Make no mistake about it: The Purge films are pure exploitation, which no doubt accounts for their formidable popularity.

As sceptics like to point out, his formidable popularity rating, in percentage points, almost matches the price of oil, in dollars per barrel (now about $74).

Pat Brown's once formidable popularity was melting in the flames of the sixties, including the student uprising at U.C. Berkeley and the riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles and the Fillmore district of San Francisco.

While the President retains an overall approval rating of 58percentt among Hispanics, much of that support is grounded in his own formidable personal popularity.

In 1968, during the student riots, he sided with the students, and only his formidable reputation and popularity shielded him from expulsion.

Despite her enduring popularity, a formidable fund-raising network and near unanimous support from her party, Mrs. Clinton, Republican leaders believe, is vulnerable to appearing a has-been.

British historian Norman Davies, himself an author of a popular account of Polish history (God's Playground), notes that Jasienica, while more of "a historical writer than an academic historian", had "formidable talents", gained "much popularity" and that his works would find no equals in the time of communist Poland.

Aristide's political party, the Lavalas Family, has said it plans to run, and its popularity could pose a formidable challenge to Martelly and his allies.

Despite its falling popularity, the Muslim Brotherhood maintains formidable discipline and a well-oiled electoral machine.

Despite a contracting economy and falling popularity ratings, Putin remained a formidable opponent, Brenton said.

On the Democratic side, attention now turns squarely to Mr. Kaine, who served four years as governor and whose popularity would make him a formidable candidate.