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How to use the word Unpopular in a Sentence? Page #3

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It's complicated for a single party to take leadership (on state finances) because it knows it will be criticized by others for unpopular decisions. A president can show leadership and settle the debates.

Gitanas Nauseda

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Pakatan is unpopular with the Malay-Muslim electorate, uMNO and PAS have formed a credible opposition front to challenge the government by exploiting communal sentiments.

Adib Zalkalpi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

JACK NICHOLSON: My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Which is? JACK NICHOLSON: That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Let's talk about acting for a minute.

Jack Nicholson

added by Normando
5 years ago

Our judicial system may not be perfect. However the bedrock of the system maintains that all defendants, including unpopular ones, are entitled to fair and impartial treatment, jason Van Dyke is prepared to serve Jason Van Dyke debt to society and move on with Jason Van Dyke life in a meaningful and productive manner.

Dan Herbert

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Walter Jonesa and I came to Washington together in 1995, having worked alongside Walter Jonesa for nearly 25 years, I can tell you without hesitation that Walter Jonesa left North Carolina, Congress, and North Carolinas country better places than Walter Jonesa found them. Walter Jonesa will be remembered as a man of strong principles, willing to take an unpopular stand when necessary. Walter Jonesa was a hard-working and faithful public servant, and Walter Jonesa will be sorely missed.

North Carolina

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Until the Maduro regime restores a democratic path in Venezuela through free, fair, and transparent elections, the government faces isolation from the international community.Sunday’s process was choreographed by a regime too unpopular and afraid of its own people to risk free elections and open competition. the United States stands with democratic nations in support of the Venezuelan people and will take swift economic and diplomatic actions to support the restoration of their democracy.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Trump in particular was such an unpopular candidate, because he's so anti communities of color, and we're a minority majority state, are you kidding ? every negative, hurtful, biased, racist remark, it stuck here.

Lujan Grisham

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Unaffiliated voters outnumber Republican and Democratic voters in Connecticut, and those are the voters that swing elections in a year when Trump is very unpopular and Malloy is very unpopular.

Chris Kukk

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The easy actions have been done very well but now there is more that needs to be done, motor vehicles in cities have to be curbed - so far, there has been little action in that regard, because it will be very unpopular with drivers.

Chen Songxi

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I was seeing reports of some empty speeches by right-wing, unpopular, murderous, imperialist lackey presidents, it's shameful seeing those presidents, hated by their peoples, speak about Venezuela's noble people.

Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It’s certainly unpopular in my district.

Peter King

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They are combining these to pieces of legislation together because they know the conceal carry( bill) is extremely unpopular.

Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I am often asked by the media and others, 'How did it come about that Donald Trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election?' my answer is that Trump didn't win the election -- the Democratic Party lost the election.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Director Comey was very unpopular with most people, when I made that decision, I actually thought that it would be a bipartisan decision. Because you look at all of the people on the Democratic side, not only the Republican side, that were saying such terrible things about Director Comey.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Director Comey was very unpopular with most people, i actually thought when I made that decision -- and I also got a very, very strong recommendation, as you know, from the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Director Comey was very unpopular with most people.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think it is totally ridiculous. Everyone thinks so, director Comey was very unpopular with most people.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Jon Ossoff's first-place finish tonight is a huge triumph for the Resistance and for progressives, who boosted Ossoff to the top of a crowded race in a Republican-leaning district. Less than six months ago, a Republican won this district by more than 20 points, tonight, a progressive Democrat got the most votes in a seat Newt Gingrich once held, and, as votes continued to be tallied, was hovering near 50 percent. The reason is clear: voters are rejecting Trump and his policies, especially the highly unpopular GOP-led health care repeal proposals like Trumpcare.

Anna Galland

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He stood up for his beliefs when it was unpopular and difficult to do so. We all need to do that more.

Cathy Oost

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In the 1984 Euros, (President) Francois Mitterrand was very unpopular and it didn't change anything for him, even though France had a stellar performance and (Michel) Platini scored nine goals.

Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

His approval ratings are terrible. They have been low and keep going down. He will leave unpopular.

Julian Zelizer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It takes time for those reforms to take effect, i am trying to do what the country should expect from a head of state... That means do reforms even if they are difficult... even if they are unpopular. I prefer people to have an image of a president who has conducted reforms, even though unpopular, rather than a president who has done nothing.

French President Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the reasons Rousseff was so unpopular was because she was slowly starting to make some of the changes that needed to be made, with many of the same people still around, big change in Brazil seems far-fetched.

John Baur

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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