Prior to this, he had courted popularity by giving a 13th month's salary to all employees as well as increasing benefits for pensioners, neither of which was financially sustainable.
Too often, he thinks, his predecessors courted popularity with loose monetary and fiscal policies, only to be forced into abrupt reversals when inflation shot up and financial markets expressed disapproval.
George courted popularity with voluble expressions of praise for the English, and claimed that he had no drop of blood that was not English.
The former Rentokil boss relishes his hard-nosed image and has seldom courted popularity.
Indeed, in the German version one female contestant courted popularity by flashing her breasts on camera "every 10 minutes," Mr. Romer said.
Their farewell was appropriate for a composer who never courted popularity or convention and in his later years continued to plough a lonely furrow.
Analysts say this points to a potential loss for Pakistan's military, which courted popularity by closing the route in November but may have ceded a source of leverage with the United States.
When Bill Clinton a strong supporter of Mr Cleaver saw the instrument on a recent visit to the museum, the president, who famously courted popularity by playing jazz on the Arsenio Hall show, offered to donate one of his own saxophones.
Mr Spitzer, a Democrat, has courted popularity by using his office to investigate abuses on Wall Street.See articleMayhem and the mayorMexico's president, Vicente Fox, fired Mexico City's police chief and the commissioner of the Federal Preventive Police over last month's public lynchings of three policemen.
However, for most of the 143 minutes that the second match lasted the good citizens of New York cheered the Belgian into the night rather than the American, either a rare outbreak of international love-bombing or a put-down on one of their own, a player who has never successfully courted popularity but who deserved better than this.
