Sentence examples for highest popular from inspiring English sources

His highest popular vote total came in 1920, when he received about 915,000 votes.

James Brooke MEXICO: ZEDILLO SOARS -- President Ernesto Zedillo has reached his highest popular approval rating, scoring 7.2 out of 10 in a national poll by the newspaper Reforma.

The party had won 69.5 percent of the popular vote, the highest popular vote share ever attained by the PC party in the province.

It is now a high popular art, like jazz.

And as long as the price of oil stays high, popular discontent, such as it is, will probably remain well under the surface.

Killjoys are noting that Merkel's last SPD opponent, Steinbrück, enjoyed similarly high popular support when he was nominated in 2012.

"The L.D.P.'s only chance is finding someone with high popular support, like Mr. Koizumi," said Takeshi Sasaki, a professor of politics at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, using the party's abbreviation.

Fashion gave him the further advantage of access to the dials and levers of high popular taste, where women wielded a power that was denied them in most other spheres.

While the state's governor carefully sidestepped the issue, asserting that it was a family matter, other politicians seemed to sense an advantage in catering to the high popular feeling.

But in 2011, the opposition won an unprecedented six seats, along with an unusually high popular vote of close to 40percentt, in what was seen as a demand by voters for more accountability and responsiveness in its leaders.

His Republican successor, Gerald Ford, started his own term with sky-high popular approval.