Jill's post about this, and her analogy to the unpopular girl winning homecoming queen, made me want to go and vote. |
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Friesians and Jerseys will have to trample a lot of washing before they become as unpopular as York's pigeons. |
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Membership has sunk to below 200,000 and, after 12 years in office, many cabinet ministers are seen as tired, unpopular or not credible leaders. |
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The legislation was wildly unpopular, and led to people siphoning the petrol out of other people's tanks. |
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Not that we were unpopular and didn't socialize with anyone else, but it was Amanda who I shared sleepovers and late night conversations with. |
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There was a spate of complaints in the press recently about cable TV operators assigning Taiwan's three sports broadcasters into unpopular slots. |
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Judges must be free to make decisions, even unpopular ones, without the fear of political interference or public denigration. |
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This is going to be highly unpopular and I don't want to be in the hot seat, but somebody has got to do it. |
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Data from the United Kingdom show that they are unpopular with both patients and clinicians. |
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His agrarian reforms, especially those against large property, made him unpopular among the bourgeoisie. |
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But most abhor rearming with nuclear weapons, which is very unpopular with the general public. |
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Many Americans were first exposed to Breillat's films through Romance, a critically touted but unpopular film. |
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Leaders fear that setting strict limits will either cause rebellious behavior or make them unpopular. |
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Rates were paid only by householders, and became increasingly unpopular at a time of inflation. |
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Many columnists are expressing concern about the censorship of unpopular views, and what that might mean for freedom of expression. |
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It's a soft way of introducing currency controls, which would otherwise be politically unpopular. |
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Meanwhile various unpopular rulers who have held onto power with American support will be forced to submit to the will of their people. |
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The move has proved unpopular with the public in Slovakia, where the average monthly wage is 14 000 korunas. |
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I'm sure Straw Dogs is rather unpopular with the feminist community, and I find myself repulsed by the film for the same reason. |
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The traditional treatment using the drug pilocarpine lacked systemic side effects but produced pinpoint pupils and was unpopular with patients. |
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Pressing ahead with another referendum would be deeply unpopular with the electorate. |
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Alternatively, a Prime Minister may reshuffle a minister who has been associated with policies which have failed or which are unpopular. |
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They weren't cool or extremely popular, nor were they unpopular, and didn't go out of their way to befriend the socially inept outcast types. |
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Sweden are really going for this, which will be making the Germans feel most unpopular. |
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The recent upheavals were so unpopular that it would be a brave government to implement anything like that again. |
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Although this might be unpopular in the short term, at least they will regain some respect once the current mob mentality dies down. |
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Most of their extreme ideas were deeply unpopular with the resistance, he said. |
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Take one unpopular president, a brace of struggling statesmen and a couple of global summits. |
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And despite the fact that Captchas are unpopular with some people, their use is increasing. |
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Others have already started to form the usual circular firing squads, pointing their fingers at an unpopular president. |
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Higher fuel prices can cause unwelcome rises in inflation, restrict economic growth and are unpopular with voters. |
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Meanwhile, the current, pro-European position of the Labour Party, which abandoned its policy of quitting the EU in the mid-1980s, is unpopular. |
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Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are beginning a two-day stoppage over a pay claim and an unpopular appraisal system. |
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The unpopular, unpressurised Shorts 360 aircraft used by Loganair are to be phased out by the end of August. |
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I think they're willing to make some unpopular decisions, instead of just giving in. |
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She describes the proposed development of the old bus depot as unpopular, illogical and perverse. |
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Plant breeders realized that sprouts were becoming catastrophically unpopular. |
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Homogenous global culture may be increasingly unpopular, but such cynical glocalization has its own dangers. |
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He introduced a series of unpopular economic austerity measures to cope with the country's increasing debt burden. |
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As it was, the government remained unpopular among large sections of the population. |
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Why are we allowing our soldiers to risk their lives in the most unpopular war in Australian history? |
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Megawati should have the guts to make unpopular policies that will benefit the majority. |
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After all, sticking up for what you believe in can get you into all kinds of scrapes and make you seriously unpopular with the powers that be. |
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I'm aware that's an unpopular thing to say, and that many consider him a loon. |
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Under this exception, the bare desire to harm an unpopular group is an illegitimate basis for legislation. |
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When the euro went into Italy, the lira suddenly became unpopular with young people. |
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If our government pursues an unpopular policy, it has to explain itself to the electorate. |
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Although rue is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens or flowerbeds, its strong smell usually makes rue unpopular for use close to homes. |
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A company that has auditors poring over its accounts is unpopular at any time. |
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In my commentary I said it was probably the most unpopular win in athletics. |
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Now, if this show was unpopular and unloved by the masses, I would buy the argument that people are turned off by the fast-talking. |
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There was never any good reason to believe that voucherizing Medicare would be anything but desperately unpopular. |
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It was a nasty dig about a girl's looks when she starts to spout unpopular opinions. |
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His autocratic style made him extremely unpopular, and most of his achievements turned out to be temporary. |
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Winchester has reintroduced the tang safety on its lever actions this year, replacing the unpopular cross-bolt safety. |
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The situation improved when the council cleared unpopular maisonettes and private developers built new homes. |
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This is not the kind of speech to make a deeply unpopular leader any more popular. |
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His attempt to preserve traditional Babism proved largely unpopular, however, and his followers were soon in the minority. |
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Regionally, US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has made it extremely unpopular. |
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But a minister whose policy is unpopular with some of his own backbenchers may find opposition support embarrassing. |
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A disturbingly perky androgynous sprite tries to spread the joy of music to an unpopular putz named Buzz. |
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Labour officials point to polls showing that negative campaigning is increasingly unpopular with voters. |
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How unpopular would a president need to be before his unpopularity made it safe to follow the dictates of your own principles? |
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Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion. |
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The hybrid power station is being seen as a possible alternative to the increasingly unpopular wind farms. |
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The paradoxical truth is that nothing is more unpopular with the public than the pursuit of the public interest. |
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His views on the nature of prophecy were unpopular among religious scholars. |
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This suited a number of interests, including a wildly unpopular Russian political class that quickly wrapped themselves in the flag. |
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An increasingly politicised population has shown its continuing capacity to topple unpopular governments. |
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The invasion has made the dictator a folk hero throughout a region where he was previously unpopular. |
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They are assuming that belt-tightening measures would be unpopular, and they would be voted out. |
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But his severity made him unpopular with the boys and he was passed over for promotion. |
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This agitation ended an unpopular attempt by the British government to renew convict transportation. |
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This act was deeply unpopular, and implicated Ford in the traumas of Watergate. |
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The name of Middleton was unpopular, and his proscription very naturally tempted me to peruse his writings and those of his antagonists. |
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Practicing or sighting in on a public shooting range is a sure way to become very unpopular. |
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Last year's hike of seven per cent and the previous year's 16 per cent increase proved highly unpopular. |
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In practice, one of the 10 shortlistees each year hails from the unpopular end of things. |
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Thus supporters of globalization are keen to temper its most unpopular effects by modification of neoliberal policies. |
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While discharging duties, I have taken unpopular decisions in my career, but without an iota of prejudice. |
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If they succeed at this, blackjack will become as unpopular as American roulette. |
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So unpopular has their botched plan become that not a single force met the absurdly short deadline. |
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She was unpopular at times, but continued to strive for high standards. |
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Leaders in the region have their hands tied by their strategic interests and the need to retain US support, a policy frequently unpopular with local public opinion. |
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Why is such a simple countermeasure against headache and disease still so unpopular? |
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As number two in an unpopular centre-right government, he has to save the jobs of Alstom's remaining 75,000 employees or his presidential ambitions will be a busted flush. |
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Iraq is deeply unpopular with the French electorate as a whole. |
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She became extremely unpopular and was widely blamed for the King's growing weakness as he aged. |
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Some calculating pol, realizing that his position had become unpopular or untenable, would execute a backflip off the high board. |
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The simple fact is that, outside of the South and a few other areas, Tea Party extremism and brinksmanship is deeply unpopular. |
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The central government was unpopular, and a group of young Army officers carried out a coup. |
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But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents. |
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It has become increasingly unpopular in the United States, Australia and other westernized countries to import goods from countries with sweatshops. |
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Customs officers may remain unpopular among smokers and drinkers who see them as killjoys ready to seize over-the-limit alcohol and cigarettes brought back from holidays. |
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So, it seems these lawgivers are indeed above the laws that are so vigorously enforced on unpopular public figures who are supporters of the wrong political party. |
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On this coming March fifteenth we will be unpopular with more millions of taxpayers than ever before. |
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His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read. |
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However, Charles X replaced him in 1829 with a new ministry containing some of the most unpopular royalists in France, led by the prince of Polignac. |
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Towards the end of the 19th century, Latvia emerged as a political entity in its own right, despite the unpopular and oppressive process of Russification. |
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And so the serially unpopular Hollande was robbed of a rare break from public opprobrium. |
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But as Michael Tomasky argues, they need the debt to push through their radical and unpopular agenda. |
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The president is obviously at an unpopular moment in his term in office. |
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Our unpopular and unending interventions in the Middle East brought nothing but instability. |
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The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party. |
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But a recent court decision in Osaka may make the police here reverse course in the unpopular dance club crackdown. |
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Rail watchdogs blamed the overcrowding on a combination of train operator One's unpopular new timetable and shortage of serviceable rolling stock. |
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The unpopular Williams was collared and cuffed at his home on a Sunday afternoon, and spent the night in jail before a bail hearing could be scheduled Monday morning. |
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Has taken unpopular but correct decisions but only time will tell whether his big-tent approach to reform can match the achievements of more radical English moves. |
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Second, he grossly misrepresents the views of the American people, blaming them for an increasingly unpopular policy pursued by the US ruling elite. |
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Sadly, Paul the Octopus did not outlive his impressive but unpopular World Cup predictions by long. |
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That was clear and pretty popular, whereas today, the GOP message is muddled and unpopular. |
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It would be enormously disruptive, and unpopular, to uproot them over night. |
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Consistent with our hypothesis, our study revealed that unpopular children who evinced stronger emotional Stroop responses showed the greatest risk for depressive symptoms. |
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He was unpopular, seen as a political bumbler, and during his time hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in massive pro-democracy protests. |
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They also find it hard to coordinate orders, so that popular magazines sell out before the month is up and unpopular ones are oversupplied and have to be thrown away. |
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Rather than having to go back to the district and explain an unpopular vote to constituents, members could hope that constituents would learn first hand why a bill was needed. |
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Throw in a poor mass transit system, a small and unpopular downtown, and a population shift to exurbia, and it's a wonder anyone goes to the games. |
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The government oversteps its discretionary power to censor political speech when protesters are discriminated against merely based on the content of their unpopular speech. |
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It needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. |
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This was clearly unpopular with the stars of the gallery and the drama queens of politics, so was dropped after its one, demonstrably successful, trial. |
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When C. P. Scott died, the innumerable tributes to him all emphasized his courage and integrity, his humanitarianism and his championship of unpopular causes. |
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Older units with asbestos roofs and low eaves are particularly unpopular. |
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The government could also work towards a more harmonious and inclusive society that tolerated and protected differences of opinion, especially unpopular ones. |
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He helped engineer his re-election, before coming to grief in last year's mid-term elections when the increasingly unpopular Republicans lost their grip on Congress. |
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However, wind farms are often unpopular because they are unsightly. |
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This was not an uncommon scene in 1970, when medical deferments were a frequently used avenue for those reluctant to take part in the unpopular war in Vietnam. |
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I think that spirit is present in the new show as well, which will make it unpopular among the smart set in Europe, and the object of much cassette-smuggling in Tehran. |
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But don't forget that Korea was one of the most unpopular wars. |
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Ambedkar's frequent attack on the Hindu laws and dislike for the upper castes made him unpopular in the parliament. |
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Smith created the title Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly for himself, and many of his actions were unpopular. |
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The prospect of a union of the kingdoms was deeply unpopular among the Scottish population at large, and talk of an uprising was widespread. |
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He was unpopular with them from the outset, having seized power with the help of the military, and he returned the sentiment. |
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They were delayed in southern Norway while Olaf's return was rebuffed, but became even more unpopular than he had been. |
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The size of the forests had expanded under the Angevin kings, an unpopular development. |
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The war became increasingly unpopular with the English public largely due to the high taxes needed to sustain it. |
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The rebels occupied parts of London, and executed James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele, the unpopular Lord High Treasurer, after a hasty trial. |
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Two days after Henry's coronation, he arrested his father's two most unpopular ministers, Sir Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley. |
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The Senate is unpopular among the public and suffers from low election turnout. |
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Darnley quickly became unpopular in Scotland and then infamous for presiding over the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio. |
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The British Parliament's efforts to levy new taxes following the French and Indian War were deeply unpopular in the colonies. |
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Unfortunately for James, negotiation with Spain proved generally unpopular, both with the public and with James's court. |
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The statue was unpopular with local Conservatives and the large Irish immigrant population. |
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Even in such an emergency, the idea of having the unpopular Royal troops ordered into the City was political dynamite. |
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The Republic, however, was bankrupt and the ineffective Directory was unpopular with the French population. |
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The unpopular Louis XVIII fled to Belgium after realizing he had little political support. |
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The official introduction of the metric system in September 1799 was unpopular in large sections of French society. |
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Without extra funding the NHS in England will according to The Guardian be forced to make unpopular and unpalatable choices. |
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Lamont fell out with John Major after Black Wednesday and became highly unpopular with the public. |
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Pearson, however, was unpopular with the UKIP grassroots, who viewed him as an establishment figure too favourable to the Conservatives. |
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On 1 April 1996, the unpopular counties of Avon, Humberside and Cleveland were abolished and their former area divided into unitary districts. |
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Much of the immediate reconstruction of the city centre has been deeply unpopular. |
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Latins are always conspicuously dangerous when they are serving an unpopular cause for money. |
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Babbage took the unpopular line, from the publishers' perspective, of exposing the trade's profitability. |
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Over the years preceding Napoleon's capture of the islands, the power of the Knights had declined and the Order had become unpopular. |
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The Bishops' Book was unpopular with conservative sections of the Church, and quickly grew to be disliked by Henry VIII as well. |
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John succeeded Richard as king in 1199, but his rule proved unpopular with many of his barons, who in response moved against him. |
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The Tower had long been a symbol of oppression, despised by Londoners, and Henry's building programme was unpopular. |
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He also appointed Scottish nobles such as George Home to his court, which proved unpopular with the Parliament of England. |
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Milton's own beliefs were in some cases both unpopular and dangerous, and this was true particularly to his commitment to republicanism. |
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Third, Burke warned that democracy would create a tyranny over unpopular minorities, who needed the protection of the upper classes. |
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In April 1733, Walpole withdrew an unpopular excise bill that had gathered strong opposition, including from within his own party. |
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However this proved so unpopular that only existing clubs were selected for the competition. |
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Hamilton became widely unpopular in Spain because of his rivalry with Spanish former teammate Fernando Alonso. |
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Recognition of the Irish border was politically contentious and unpopular with Irish nationalists. |
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As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighbouring peoples. |
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The Prime Minister's absolutist views proved extremely unpopular, even within his own party. |
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Protection would have been highly unpopular among the newly enfranchised urban working classes, as it would raise their cost of living. |
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The administration felt that the plan would likely be unpopular among many Americans, and the speech was mainly directed at a European audience. |
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Tories had always expected the switch from rates, paid by 18 million people, to a community charge, paid by 35 million, to be unpopular. |
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In 1989 and 1990, the Conservatives introduced the deeply unpopular poll tax. |
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The government was seeking an exit strategy that would end a politically unpopular deployment without abandoning Sierra Leone. |
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He was a moper and a complainer, and, as such, was quite unpopular at parties. |
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He paid more attention to Hanover and surrounded himself with Germans, making him an unpopular king. |
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He rapidly became equally unpopular with the BBC music department, ignoring its agenda and pursuing his own. |
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Cup Finals in 1925 and 1927, Cardiff were making the once unpopular sport of 'soccer' very fashionable, for fans and sportsmen alike. |
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His divorces, brutality, atheism, and association with the boxing world made Queensberry an unpopular figure in London high society. |
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Thomas' Parish, but proved unpopular, arguing with his congregation and taking unscheduled holidays. |
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The Army was a deeply unpopular profession, one contentious issue being pay. |
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He granted several privileges to Brittany, such as exemption from the gabelle, a tax on salt which was very unpopular in France. |
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However, Llywelyn's territorial ambitions gradually made him unpopular with some minor Welsh leaders, particularly the princes of south Wales. |
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The western emperor Gratian had become unpopular because of perceived favouritism toward Alans over Roman citizens. |
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They made peace with the Scots in the Treaty of Northampton, but this move was highly unpopular. |
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Over this time, the Conservative government became increasingly unpopular in Wales. |
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However, since the completion of the Colwyn Bay bypass, the lower speed limit has been an unpopular decision with drivers. |
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In many cases the replacement bus services were slower and less convenient than the trains they were meant to replace, and so were unpopular. |
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There had been an historic use of Welsh in the WI, and with over two hundred and fifty branches in Wales this decision was unpopular. |
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The announcement was unpopular as it was made in the same week as the confirmation of closure of the Rayleigh Call Centre. |
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Charles was so unpopular that he could not raise an army to fight the invasion and instead fled to Burgundy. |
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In 1807, a secret treaty between Napoleon and the unpopular prime minister led to a new declaration of war against Britain and Portugal. |
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Having overordered the unpopular new toys, we were forced to sell them at a discount. |
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Longchamp refused to work with Puiset and became unpopular with the English nobility and clergy. |
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The unpopular comic book was overprinted, leaving many retailers with dozens of unsaleable copies. |
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Besides, it was something that had been unpopular in ancient Greece and Rome, and it was thought to be essentially unrepublican in principle. |
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The imperial policies of the Conservatives eventually proved unpopular and in the general election of 1906 the Liberals won a huge landslide. |
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Urban communities have often expressed great dislike of noisy aircraft, and police and passenger helicopters can be unpopular. |
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By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable. |
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Much art has been disliked purely because it depicted or otherwise stood for unpopular rulers, parties or other groups. |
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In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by Marcus Cocceius Nerva, an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. |
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Hanlin academicians became grand secretaries, and they dismantled his father's unpopular militaristic policies to restore civil government. |
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Protesting students, known as the Generation of 1930, turned to violence in opposition to the increasingly unpopular Machado. |
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Jayawardene swept to power in 1977, defeating the largely unpopular United Front government. |
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This development was unpopular and was prevented from continuing by the efforts of several British and American people living in the city. |
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Although reaction to conscription was favourable in English Canada the idea was deeply unpopular in Quebec. |
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Because the Stamp Act was unpopular, a colonial jury was unlikely to convict a colonist of its violation. |
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In 1857, Bright's unpopular opposition to the Crimean War led to his losing his seat as member for Manchester. |
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The move was unpopular with many senators and Caesar, realizing his mistake, soon ordered Cato's release. |
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As the expensive War of the Spanish Succession grew unpopular, so did the Whig administration. |
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A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected. |
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His renouncement of his previous position, once it had proven unpopular, did not help his candidacy. |
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Within a few years the Danish rule had become sufficiently unpopular that Norway again became united. |
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Some weeks before, one of the masters at the College, an unpopular Parsee, had found a Russell's viper nosing round his classroom. |
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Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power. |
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Their affluence and attachment to luxury makes military service unpopular. |
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The MACJC presidents had cot that to a maximum of four out-of-state signees in an unpopular ruling earlier this fall. |
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A man expected to use his desire for change to correct the misjudgements of his unpopular predecessor and create history. |
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Arsenal and Liverpool make the unpopular trip to Cardiff for the annual curtain-raiser to the season today, writes Dan Williams. |
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Hamble was unpopular with viewers and presenters who revealed that they kicked her across the studio floor when the cameras were not rolling. |
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Exclusivism is unpopular with large numbers of sensitive and thoughtful people. |
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Labour introduced its controversial all-women shortlists to encourage more women into Parliament, but the policy has been unpopular with grassroots supporters. |
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According to political analyst Ivica Bocevski, this government has demonstrated with the antismoking law it is capable of putting into effect unpopular measures. |
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The group decided to send the unpopular members to Coventry. |
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However, he was later demonized and he became quite unpopular. |
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The union was imposed from the outside and contrary to the rooted democratic tradition of the region, and it was highly unpopular among the colonists. |
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Gilding was to prove unpopular, and around 1772 Wedgwood reduced the amount of 'offensive gilding' in response to suggestions from Sir William Hamilton. |
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The Duke of Wellington was becoming unpopular as Prime Minister, particularly in the industrial north west of England, for continually blocking proposed reforms. |
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Its tendency to produce majority rule allows a government to pursue a consistent strategy for its term in office and to make decisions that may be both correct and unpopular. |
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It was intended to ensure a free exchange of ideas, even unpopular ones. |
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He had inherited a government in debt, and in an effort to raise more revenue for his expansionist wars, he instituted a series of increasingly unpopular and burdensome taxes. |
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Thus, Hugues plus Eidgenosse by way of Huisgenoten supposedly became Huguenot, a nickname associating the Protestant cause with politics unpopular in France. |
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The reform was especially unpopular with the old church hierarchy, as the new dioceses were to be financed by the transfer of a number of rich abbeys. |
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Alexios was highly incompetent at the office, but it was his mother, Maria of Antioch, and her Frankish background that made his regency unpopular. |
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Furthermore, the Cape was unpopular among VOC employees, who regarded it as a barren and insignificant outpost with little opportunity for advancement. |
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The new regime, known as the Helvetic Republic, was highly unpopular. |
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Alexander's grandmother believed that he had more potential to rule than her other grandson, the increasingly unpopular emperor Elagabalus, whom Alexander replaced. |
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By contrast, the unpopular Ranulf Flambard, the Bishop of Durham and a key member of the previous regime, was imprisoned in the Tower of London and charged with corruption. |
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In both the North and South, the draft laws were highly unpopular. |
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This agreement was, however, unpopular in the Kingdom of Scotland, and later military conflicts between Edward IV and James III negated the marriage arrangement. |
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The result was a sequence of innovative but unpopular financial measures. |
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Although effective, this solution is unpopular for aesthetic reasons. |
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Henry softened some of his policies in response to the concerns of the barons, but he soon began to target his political enemies and recommence his unpopular Sicilian policy. |
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In 1635, Charles I authorised a book of canons that made him head of the Church, ordained an unpopular ritual and enforced the use of a new liturgy. |
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The dispute over Tweeddale and Teviotdale does not appear to have damaged relations between Alexander and David, although it was unpopular in some quarters. |
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He travelled the country dispensing justice and some of the unpopular policies of the following reign, such as the sale of pardons, may have originated in this period. |
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In April 1940, he was temporarily promoted to captain and given command of a company of marines, but he proved an unpopular officer, being haughty and curt with his men. |
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Supporters of relatively unpopular third parties have a substantial incentive to avoid wasted votes by casting all of their votes for a slate of candidates from a major party. |
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The new tax was introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales the following year, and proved to be among the most unpopular policies of her premiership. |
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His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the Exarch of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas. |
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By that time, Barre's government had become increasingly unpopular. |
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However, the idea of political union was unpopular, and when James dropped his policy of a speedy union, the topic quietly disappeared from the legislative agenda. |
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The recent dramatic rise in house prices has made these reforms unpopular. |
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This was unpopular with Championship clubs because there was no fair and easy way for them to get promoted into Super League and it was seen as a closed shop. |
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Of course the council tax is unpopular because free-spending local authorities relentlessly force it up with extravagance, feather-bedding of employees and empire-building. |
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The ending was unpopular, however, and generated controversy. |
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Taxation is not necessarily an unpopular form of funding for health care. |
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Five years later, Charles' unpopular military adviser, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was stabbed to death in an Old Portsmouth pub by war veteran John Felton. |
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After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the Earl of Bothwell, who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. |
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The Iraq War was deeply unpopular in most western countries, with Western governments divided in their support and under pressure from worldwide popular protests. |
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Lights would not be allowed after dark for almost six years, and the blackout became by far the most unpopular aspect of the war for civilians, more than rationing. |
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The Acts were unpopular with both the Americans and the colonies. |
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James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain. |
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The courts became feared for their censorship of opposing religious views, and became unpopular among the propertied classes for inflicting degrading punishments on gentlemen. |
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The chief tax imposed by Charles was a feudal levy known as ship money, which proved even more unpopular, and lucrative, than poundage and tonnage before it. |
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The new leadership progressively dropped unpopular policies. |
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These measures were not unpopular with the Welsh gentry in particular, who recognised that they would give them equality under law with English citizens. |
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His attempts to raise taxes to pay for his Scottish adventure and for the protection of Calais against the French made him increasingly unpopular. |
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John was already personally unpopular with many of the barons, many of whom owed money to the Crown, and little trust existed between the two sides. |
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The New Zealand dollar surged in the wake of China's announcement it would allow all couples to have two children, abolishing its unpopular one-child policy. |
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The top ten most unpopular foods include avocado, salami, olives, black pudding, Brussel sprouts, goats cheese, blue cheese, chicken liver and coriander. |
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