Sentence examples for won popularity from inspiring English sources

Malatesta won popularity as a ruler and distinction as a mercenary captain, but he also gained a reputation for impiety, vice, and brutality.

In Chinese historical tradition Wenwang was depicted as intelligent and benevolent, a man of virtue who won popularity among his contemporaries and expanded the realm of the Zhou.

As mayor of Tehran for the past two years, he had won popularity by laying roads, doling out interest-free ("Islamic") loans and living austerely.

She worked hard, scowled too much, but won popularity with Londoners - ranking second to Ken Livingstone in newspaper polls - if not with her senior civil servants.

Mr. Danielpour has won popularity with audiences for his lushly scored, harmonically accessible orchestral works, including a cello concerto written for and recorded by Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma

Both Mr Chaudhry and Mr Sharif have won popularity for standing up to a dictator, whereas Mr Zardari is despised for cutting a deal with him to come to power.

The offices between the quaestorship and praetorship, the aedileship (four per year) and the plebeian tribunate (10 per year), were not compulsory but provided opportunities to win popularity among the voters by staging aedilician games and supporting popular causes, respectively.

They are trying to win popularity contests.

He did not always win popularity, or re-election.

Turnaround specialists like CRG rarely win popularity contests.

This game was developed almost concurrently with auction bridge but was slower to win popularity.