Sentence examples for has lost popular from inspiring English sources

Many lawmakers from the party grumble that it has lost popular support because it backs Prime Minister Mario Monti and his austerity agenda.

Whether it is a cynical ploy of a movement that has lost popular support or a genuine shift in tactics remains to be seen.

They will no doubt alter the currently reformist tone of Iran's biggest daily newspaper, which is owned by the municipality, and redeploy the city's huge revenues from advertising hoardings and the sale of building permits to more conservative ends.Some see the vote as an endorsement of George Bush's contention that the Islamic Republic has lost popular legitimacy.

Some ZANU members of parliament admit that their party has lost popular support.The main reason is not the government's brutality; it is the desperate state of the economy, which is thought to have contracted by 30% in the past three years.

You see, Greece's triple problem -- of way too little growth, much too much debt, and a political elite that has lost popular credibility and legitimacy -- cannot be solved by adding a couple of years to the adjustment program and finding a bit more money.

He said the group had lost popular support and faced difficulties recruiting new leaders and the suicide bombers it has relied on.

European courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg have lost popular support and have nothing to offer the United Kingdom, according to the justice secretary, Chris Grayling.

However, he acknowledged he had lost popular support, and pledged to work towards reconciliation in the country of 19 million which emerged from communism in 1989.

The third coalition party, D66, a leftish-liberal group, had lost popular support and seemed content to go into opposition.That has left the initiative with Mr Balkenende, who took over the leadership of the Christian Democrats only last October.

By autumn, however, the Provisional Government (since July headed by the moderate Socialist Aleksandr Kerensky, who was supported by the moderate Socialist leadership of the soviets) had lost popular support.

At the same time, the Shia leader Muqtada al‑Sadr froze the activities of his armed group, Jaysh al-Mahdi, which had lost popular support as it degenerated into ethnic-cleansing and crime.