Sentence examples for won a popular from inspiring English sources

Mr Ahmadinejad won a popular election.

Olyunin won a popular silver and said he was proud to be a pioneer for Russian board cross racers.

In his final term as prime minister, he pushed through and won a popular vote to make the president directly elected by the people.

There is no way that members of the Muslim Brotherhood can reconcile themselves to losing power after having won a popular election.

He dismissed Frederick William's cabinet, announced a program of cautious reform in Prussian as well as German affairs, and won a popular endorsement of his course in elections that gave the liberals control of the legislature.

They would easily have won a popular vote had the US permitted one to take place on both sides of the "provisional military demarcation line" at the 17th parallel.

Young supporters wore Sarkozy T-shirts, and the crowd shouted, "We're going to win," a popular chant at soccer matches.

"They've never been able to win a popular vote," he said, noting that voters in dozens of states have passed initiatives banning same-sex marriage.

Shi, who had hoped to establish an independent kingdom in the western province of Sichuan, was unable to win a popular base and was eventually caught and executed by government forces.

All of these former opposition leaders realize that under the self-government plan they approved on Nov. 15, they may have to win a popular election to remain in power.

So one reading of the referendum's result is that in nine years in power it has been Mr Chávez's signal achievement to turn Venezuela into the only place on the planet nowadays where the American president could win a popular vote.But in this, as in so many other things, Mr Chávez was mistaken.