Sentence examples for won popularity among from inspiring English sources

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.

In a virtual campaign endorsement played up on Russia's state-owned TV, Blair bestowed pre-emptive forgiveness on the former K.G.B. operative who had won popularity among Russians by slaughtering the pesky Chechens.

This approach has won popularity among educators and parents at a time of growing frustration over rising school taxes and what many see as a lack of transparency in school budgets.

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.

This opportunity is not to win popularity among the Kurds by rescuing Kobani, but to exploit a moment of maximum Kurdish weakness when they are under threat from Isis.

In the same year, worldwide sales of torrontés, which pairs beautifully with Asian-fusion cuisines and is winning popularity among young, female wine drinkers, rose by an astonishing 30%, outpacing even Malbec.

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.

But the book, like professor William Stoner, isn't out to win popularity contests.