Sentence examples for tumbling popularity from inspiring English sources

The officials are both responding to Washington's campaign for greater democracy in the Middle East, and trying to shore up the tumbling popularity of the governing party, which took a drubbing in the 2000 parliamentary elections.

In Somalia too, al-Shabaab's current defeat at the hands of US-trained, mostly Kenyan, troops, has a backdrop of tumbling popularity among the all-powerful local clans, many of whom supported the group until it banned western aid organisations from areas it controlled during last summer's drought and famine.

Though Mr Estrada's decision to back off may temporarily appease some of his critics, he has stepped on so many toes that he is running out of worthwhile partners to help him regain his tumbling popularity.One of his most valuable cabinet members, Edgardo Espiritu, has ditched him.

Turks are scheduled to go to the polls at the end of the month in an election that is widely seen as a major test of Erdogan's tumbling popularity, against a backdrop where press freedom has been yielding to government pressure.

With Mr. Blair's popularity tumbling, many legislators fear for their positions and want him to state his intentions before bellwether elections in Scotland and Wales in May.

Although competitive activity has diminished, tumbling still enjoys worldwide popularity as a gymnastic developmental exercise and forms an integral element of gymnastic floor exercises.

"Everyone, especially those of us with public functions, must behave correctly, in an exemplary fashion," the king solemnly declared in his Christmas broadcast as the scandal snowballed and the monarchy's popularity tumbled in opinion polls.

Her popularity tumbled, however, and Mr. Romney decided, with the Olympics successfully completed, to return to Massachusetts to run for governor rather than stay in Utah and run for office there, as he had suggested he might.

They also reflected a Labor rebound from the period last fall when Mr. Blair's vaunted popularity tumbled after fuel-tax protests brought the country to a standstill and showed him to be out of touch with the public mood.

Now it is Conservative popularity that is tumbling to the quiet relish of some Lib Dem MPs.

A poll published today indicated a slight jump in Howard's popularity, despite a tumbling Australian dollar and rising fuel prices.