Sentence examples for gather popular from inspiring English sources

He gave interviews to the BBC Pashto-language service to gather popular support behind him.

Only a different conception that combines direct and representative democracy can gather popular support.

The gay movement began to gather popular support in 1969, six years after the Washington march, and advanced somewhat slowly after that.

He is now fighting back.Mr Turabi, who remains at liberty, has denounced the president's action as unconstitutional and unIslamic, and vowed to gather "popular forces" in a "struggle against tyranny".

The Targowica Confederates did not represent any real strength; and their attempts to gather popular support in Poland upon crossing borders failed miserably, with only few dozens joining at first; later the number would grow but not significantly, and even the Russians saw them as not having any military value, keeping them from frontlines.

The movement gathered popular support and the Brazil's major media networks who until then had been praising the police and condemning protesters as "vandals"—changed their tone completely.

Residents describe this as a moment of energy and rekindled pride, which can be felt among the crowds that gather at popular taco trucks and in clubs playing Latin music, not rock 'n' roll.

At the same time, the opposition, while prone to radical statements and continuous complaining, has failed to either gather wide popular support or to produce a clear, coherent message.

They gathered together popular newspaper comic strips in family-friendly collections that offered good value for a Depression-era dime".

Emma Bovary, trapped in the unrelieved dullness of provincial landscape and domesticity, destroys herself by attempting to base her life on the ideas of passion and happiness she has gathered from popular romance.

Glamorized in books, movies, television, and recently in the news media, forensic science has gathered a popular following.