Sentence examples for largely populist from inspiring English sources

The two largely populist measures taken are the Food Security Act and the Direct Benefit Transfer, and none of these involve any major outlay.

Mr Bemba's UN is a largely populist group united in its virulent opposition to his rival candidate, President Joseph Kabila.Mr Kabila, easy favourite to win the race, has boosted his chances even further by securing the support of Antoine Gizenga and François Joseph Mobutu Nzanga, who came third and fourth in the first-round election in July.

They have taken a largely populist stance, with a platform revolving around eliminating corruption and bringing the voice of the people into government.

Mr. Chivukula voiced a refrain among business owners that the land acquisition bill, passed recently in the lower house of Parliament, is largely a populist measure that signals the government's inability to tackle its fiscal deficits.

Center-left parties largely abandoned populist economic policies in favor of identity politics, which only helped sour the working classes toward them.

While Trump is showing himself to be a largely fake populist, appointing just the sort of manipulative megabucks insiders he decried in the campaign, he is proving to be a reliable neo-medievalist in pushing for more Christian fundamentalist influence in American politics.

And his politics are insistently populist, largely shorn of religion.

It now runs on a populist, largely nonideological platform.

Mr Siniora could not muster the needed majority of three-quarters of MPs, due to a controversial alliance forged by Hizbullah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, with Michel Aoun, a Christian general who fought Syria during the civil war, was then exiled, and returned last year to head a populist, largely Christian party.

Nor is it a secret that the right has largely monopolized the populist impulse in recent times and adroitly directed such anger at government.

With respect to foreign policy, Aquino has largely followed a populist-nationalist track, which has emerged in response to China's perceived territorial expansionism in the South China Sea.