Sentence examples for supposedly popular from inspiring English sources
In 1992, Neil Kinnock took the supposedly popular policies of higher child benefit and state pensions funded by an increase in national insurance contributions on the better-off to the electorate and was buried by John Major.
With the housing market faltering and higher contributions required to maintain the value of pensions, a lot of people are suddenly beginning to feel poorer.No wriggle roomThe result is that even fervently pro-spending Labour MPs are reporting from their constituencies that the supposedly popular tax increases are not being borne quite as cheerfully as they had hoped.
Among the recent names that Lexicon has helped come up with, Mr Placek's favourites include Fly Wheel a taxi hire mobile phone app, and e-book seller Zola Books, which uses the supposedly popular "Z" letter.
According to this supposedly "popular analogy", if "the Egyptians had known how to make MDMA, we'd be finding MDMA in old crypts in the pyramids that's still good for consumption".
[P]rovides a useful counterweight to popular expectations about the supposedly democratic impact of the Internet.
Following Bailey's post, Britain's tabloid media pounced, using Karnel's death as a springboard to announce the "new online trend" of the Choking Game, which has supposedly become "popular on social media", in much the same way as the Ice Bucket Challenge or Neknominate.
They are not.Nigeria's return to supposedly democratic politics means that its politicians unlike its previous military rulers have to gain some popular support in order to stay in power.
A popular, supposedly democracy-promoting reform these days is abolishing the electoral college.
Subtitled episodes of Downton Abbey are reportedly watched by 160 million viewers, while US show The Big Bang Theory, supposedly the most popular foreign show in China, has been viewed more than 1.5bn times on video sites.
But what I'm suggesting (and I'm not the first) is a free-market strategy to curtail the unintended effects of supposedly useful and popular but also deeply dangerous and polarizing tools.
Nowadays, molecular-based detection of resistance genes or gene-complexes is becoming more and more popular, supposedly obviating the need for phenotypic susceptibility testing.
