Sentence examples for substantial popular from inspiring English sources

The move to oust the prime minister, he wrote, thus gained substantial popular support.

A third party may have a substantial popular following and yet capture few seats in the representative body.

The rise of the Labour Party in Great Britain, for example, virtually deprived the Liberal Party of parliamentary seats even when it had a substantial popular following.

For the Olympics, there is also substantial popular support for temporary measures that seek to secure a stable social and political environment, but there will be less justification for such measures — and more support for openness — after the Olympics.

"An I.O.C. Report Gives Three Cities High Marks" (Sports pages, May 16) reports that Beijing's bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics is helped by the substantial popular support of the general population.

By 1997, it appeared evident that the revised plan for devolved self-government had substantial popular support - as did the newly-elected UK Labour government which was advancing the scheme.

After the U.S. election and Brexit referendum last year, France and Germany met the lack of a populist surge in the Netherlands with a sigh of relief, despite still-substantial popular support for Wilders.

— that play a substantial role in popular opinion but have no traction with the elite.

The service, called Movielink, will be the first to make a substantial number of popular Hollywood films available legally over the Internet.

But, to his credit, he managed to build a different career by touring Italy and playing in theatre after theatre, sports arena after sports arena, building up a substantial network of popular support independent of television.

Although such setbacks have not led to a substantial drop in popular support for continuing to fight the rebels, polls show a growing skepticism about the claims of Russia's generals that victory is imminent.