As mayor of Tehran for the past two years, he had won popularity by laying roads, doling out interest-free ("Islamic") loans and living austerely.
Mr. Danielpour has won popularity with audiences for his lushly scored, harmonically accessible orchestral works, including a cello concerto written for and recorded by Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma
The prime minister, Vladimir Putin, who has a beady eye on the presidency due to fall vacant in the middle of next year, has won popularity for his vigorous quest for military victory.
In a virtual campaign endorsement played up on Russia's state-owned TV, Blair bestowed pre-emptive forgiveness on the former K.G.B. operative who had won popularity among Russians by slaughtering the pesky Chechens.
This approach has won popularity among educators and parents at a time of growing frustration over rising school taxes and what many see as a lack of transparency in school budgets.
Mr. Gordon, for example, has won popularity with audiences and the loyalty of important singers for his many songs that blend breezy, voice-friendly melodies with milky, pop-tinged harmonies.
Néstor Kirchner, Argentina's newly elected president, has won popularity by raising minimum wages and imposing capital controls on what he sees as short-term speculation by foreign investors, both measures that raised some eyebrows at the I.M.F.
The mechanical characteristic of shadowing practice has been considered suited to Japan's EFL context, since this context is mostly based on grammar-translation method and is a memorization-centered pedagogical culture (Sasaki 2007); which is why shadowing has won popularity in Japan's L2 learning context.
While this scenario has won popularity, significant incongruity between the GapC1 and host phylogenies has been noticed [20].
