Word: unpopularities
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...Gaulle. Yet the cruel fact of this dynamism was that it had forced through an agreement that consecrated the delivery of 12 million Vietnamese to Communism, and that crippled the new state of South Viet Nam by limiting its national army (thereby necessitating the continued presence of the unpopular French colonial army-to Communist advantage...
...that any group winning 50.1% of the popular vote should receive 64% of the chamber seats, a clear working majority. At election time the Reds challenged so many ballots that the Demo-Christians fell just 55,000 votes short of earning the electoral bonus; the law itself proved so unpopular that it is widely known as the legge truffa (fraud...
...Irishmen believed that such a shaky coalition could long endure, yet Dev's stern refusal to ease their lot by deficit spending or careless borrowing made them blind to any other risk. "We knew we would be unpopular for increasing taxation and removing [food] subsidies," said Dev, "but we either had to do our duty or not, and we did our duty...
...issue raised by the Congressional investigators was stated eloquently when, speaking as President of the Board of Overseers, he charged the new President of this University to pursue "with unremitting vigilance, inquiry into fundamental truths in every field of knowledge, no matter where the trail leads, no matter how unpopular the result." This, and not the cowardly counsel of suspicion and fear, is American doctrine
...follow his own hunches in pursuing his special studies is not the whim of some modern educator," he said. "It is not primarily a question of 'freedom'. A scholar or scientist has an obligation to investigate and report new ideas in his field, even when his conclusions may be unpopular among the general public or among his own colleagues," Pusey declared...