Was this a mere gesture of defiance, or has there been a shifting of public opinion in the two months since General Pervez Musharraf seized power in a visibly popular military coup?
Softly spoken, with a gentle, hands-on manner, she is visibly popular with colleagues and children and has managed to instil in them the belief that anything is possible.
But the students are visibly elated that popular protests have become a practised form of political theatre.
We're not going to give you any more, because you have failed utterly to do your job, the job we pay you to do, and now you're making us pay for it.'" There is, visibly, a growing popular awareness that this is not a national question; global economic factors, unstoppable trends in world trade and manufacturing, lie behind it.
It must be visibly and unmistakably a popular institution, making a large appeal to the whole community..
Mr. Campbell, untested in a director's chair, has nonetheless been immersed for the last 13 years or more in the ways of this institution and is clearly committed to it; he is regarded as energetic, level-headed, popular, not visibly unhinged — like at least one curator turned Met director of the past — and not someone whose career was a long public campaign for the job.
The result was a shared government that rarely produced visibly fruitful policies representative of popular will, amidst a tepid economic recovery for most Americans, as the "1percentt" and stocks easily rebounded.
Dogs that appear to be younger and in good health are undoubtedly more popular, but a few people still pet the visibly sick dogs in their crates.
"It's something that doesn't visibly benefit the public," he said, "so it's not very popular.
The crowds had visibly thinned since the morning, and groups sat in circles at the popular central Delhi protest spot.
Performing before Ms. Fiona, Pusha T and Malice of Clipse were visibly cheerful during their short set, especially on "I'm Good" and "Popular Demand (Popeyes)," tracks from their new album, "Til the Casket Drops" (Columbia).
