Sentence examples for popularity and authority from inspiring English sources

In Germany, political reactions are comparatively more subdued: Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity and authority remain strong.

But the more restless that UMP deputies become, the more his lack of popularity, and authority, will be a problem.

Brisk economic growth was steadily restoring the president's popularity and authority, damaged after a devaluation in 1999.

But he would also say that his combination of popularity and authority could have beaten Thatcher in 1983, when Foot "the unity candidate" was thrashed.

Clearly he was bidding for undisputed power, based on the support of the underprivileged labourers (the descamisados, or "shirtless ones") and on his popularity and authority in the army.

And this approval isn't coming from a pair of his fellow loser friends but from a Hall of Fame coach, a figure of towering popularity and authority, not just a big guy, but a molder and shaper of big guys.

Over the past 21 years, 15 of which she has spent under house arrest, her popularity and moral authority has increased.

The size and enthusiasm of the crowd — the kind of outpouring of public support that had led the government to cut short her previous period of freedom in 2003 — suggested that she had emerged with her popularity and moral authority intact.

Despite her popularity and quiet, charismatic authority, she has never appeared a political heavyweight.

But even more notable than its popularity is its accessibility and authority.

Nobody else had his authority, popularity and skill.