Sentence examples for won some popularity from inspiring English sources

As he has carried out operations against the Taliban, still using many of his border police force to clear districts around the province that had been under Taliban control or influence, he has won some popularity among ordinary Afghans in the province, who say they respect him for the improved security condition.

In the interview, the former prime minister says "I adore the Labour party" – but warns Labour that if its attack on the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition "defaults to a 'Tory cutters and Lib Dem collaborators' mantra", then it will win some short-term popularity, but not be elected to government.

"Mireille" did not fare well at its 1864 premiere at the Théâtre Lyrique and has won scant popularity since, despite some success beginning in the early 1930s at the Opéra Comique in an edition by the song composer Reynaldo Hahn.

But then Ben won the popularity contest.

The new vernacular writing, known as baihua ("plain speech"), won immediate popularity.

Canada and Australia won the popularity contest, selected as first choice by several other countries.

In recent years Handel's long-neglected stage works have won new popularity.

But he won crossover popularity as a gritty underdog and earned the friendship of many drivers.

Reinstated at the reopened École Normale (1826) in 1828, Cousin lectured on philosophy and won unprecedented popularity.

Lowell won great popularity in England's literary and political circles and served as president of the Wordsworth Society, succeeding Matthew Arnold.

He has never won any popularity contests.