Sentence examples for won wide popularity from inspiring English sources
At the very least, Mr. Putin has won wide popularity with his war on oligarchs in a nation where one in five people live in poverty.
PARIS — Georges Moustaki, a singer and songwriter who wrote Édith Piaf's hit song "Milord" and won wide popularity in France for his poetic lyrics and melancholy ballads, died on Thursday in Nice, France.
The early favorite, according to many experts, is Archbishop Sentamu, a down-to-earth, plain-spoken figure who was jailed by the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin while practicing law in Uganda in the 1970s, and who has won wide popularity among Anglicans in Britain, especially with those who favor a more conservative approach to the social issues besetting the church.
All but one or two of them won wide popularity; the most successful have been the chamber (small-scale) opera Ariadne auf Naxos (1912; revised 1916, "Ariadne on Naxos"); the giant allegory Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919; "The Woman Without a Shadow"), which some writers have called Strauss's masterpiece; and Arabella (1933), which closely resembles Der Rosenkavalier in many details.
He first won wide popularity as a writer of novels such as Sundari (1943) and Vijay Singh (1899), which dealt with subjects such as the heroism and chivalry of the Sikhs in response to the oppression of Muslim rulers and the subservience of the Hindu masses.
The trajectory of Angry Birds also suggests a larger shift in entertainment and in the kinds of brands that can win wide popularity.
Mr. Schäuble won wide praise and popularity after he led the negotiations on behalf of what was then West Germany for reunification with the communist East.
At the end of the 20th century, Glière's music was principally performed in countries formerly of the Soviet Union, although his ballet Krasny mak (1927; The Red Poppy) won wider international popularity for a time.
Still, the songs won wide critical praise.
Still, the discovery won wide attention here.
The Alvarez theory won wide attention.
