Word: unpopularly
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...describes “collective denial, inside and outside the country, about the need for reform.” The magazine additionally notes that vitally, and obviously, necessary austerity measures were postponed time and time again because of politicians’ fears that they would turn out to be unpopular with the voting public...
What is the source of his extraordinary calm? Yes, he's in a relatively good place right now, with his Hizballah proxies basking in a military draw with Israel. Yes, the U.S. is bogged down in a brutal war in Iraq. But Ahmadinejad is still unpopular at home, the Iranian economy is battered, and his major foes, Israel and the U.S., far outgun...
...when it gets interesting." Well, maybe. But I have been writing about U.S. foreign policy for 30 years and living in Europe for the last seven, and while I hope Asmus is right, I fear there are bigger centrifugal trends at work than a single President and his unpopular...
...wants to avoid using the word revolt but that "resistance is an acceptable way of democratic politics." Hungary's political scene has been tense for months. After re-election in April, Gyurcsány introduced a budget-reducing package of service cuts and tax hikes that has proved unpopular with many Hungarians. Even before his "lying" comments were made public, some of the Prime Minister's campaign stops had been disrupted by hecklers and demonstrations, which the Socialists have blamed on Fidesz. Fidesz, which canceled a Saturday rally in Budapest for fear the meeting might become a catalyst for more...
...producers are listening. Last season they killed a second character in a pivotal episode because the one they intended to kill was so unpopular that they realized she would not be missed. Other times, they rebut the fans. To knock down a popular theory--that the entire series is a dream--they made an episode in which a hallucination tells Hurley that everything that happened on the island was in his head, and then they disproved it. "There's a kind of reciprocal exchange," says David Lavery, chair in film and television at London's Brunel University...