He is unpopular for some reason.

He is unpopular for some reason.

The trial and imprisonment of the two bishops was very unpopular.

It made him very unpopular. They didn't want to go back to square one.

Critics disliked Sylvia Scarlett and it was unpopular with the public.

The angle was very unpopular with fans, and was de emphasised before the title match.

As a result, for the first time since 1982, the momentum of the fighting shifted towards the regular army.

The angle was very unpopular with fans, and was de emphasised before the title match.

They made peace with the Scots in the Treaty of Northampton, but this move was highly unpopular.

Charles's heir presumptive was therefore his unpopular Catholic brother, James, Duke of York.

War of the Spanish Succession As the expensive War of the Spanish Succession grew unpopular, so did the Whig administration.

Charles was so unpopular that he was unable to summon an army, and he fled to Burgundy.

This position was vastly unpopular, as Hitler's attacks on Jewish communities reverberated throughout the Jewish diaspora.

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Phocas, an unpopular ruler invariably described in Byzantine sources as a tyrant , was the target of a number of Senate led plots.

Monetarism also became politically unpopular when the central banks created recessions in order to slow inflation.

The Senate is unpopular among the public and suffers from low election turnout (overall roughly 30 in the first round, 20 in the second).

The episodes ended the ongoing Temporal Cold War arc, which proved unpopular among the show's viewers during the first three seasons.

In 361, after the death of Emperor Constantius, shortly followed by the murder of the very unpopular Bishop George, Athanasius returned to his patriarchate.

Husák was unpopular in Czechoslovakia after reversing the reforms of his predecessor (who had been ousted by Warsaw Pact countries).

But, they fear that calling for spending cuts will be unpopular, unlike, they hope, demands to balance the budget.

The public was also baffled by her boyish behavior and fashion choices, and she became a largely unpopular figure.

Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color .

In an unpopular move, also in 1662, Charles sold Dunkirk to his first cousin King Louis XIV of France for about 375,000.

However, the Marxist Leninist and secular nature of the government as well as its heavy dependence on the Soviet Union made it unpopular with a majority of the Afghan population.

Nepos was, by all accounts, one of the more capable of the late Western Emperors, but he was unpopular with the Roman Senate, whose members disliked him for his close ties to the East.

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.

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.

Jara was unpopular with the FCK faithful for his defensive football philosophy, but with him at the helm, the club had a safe season.

Pretender to the English throne In 1215, the English barons rebelled in the First Barons' War against the unpopular King John of England (1199 1216).

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.

Leaving Eleanor in Paris to assemble mercenary reinforcements, Henry returned to England in February 1264, where violence was brewing in response to the unpopular French decision.

During the 1980s Guebuza developed an unpopular program known as Operation Production in which jobless people from urban areas were moved to rural areas in the northern part of the country.

Vaudeville may be a French specialty, like bread, cheese, and wine, but it does not strengthen the dignity and credibility of an already spectacularly unpopular presidency.

The marriage was unpopular with the English Gardiner and his allies opposed it on the basis of patriotism, while Protestants were motivated by a fear of Catholicism.

In October the tyrannical Cola, who had become again very unpopular for his delirious behaviour and heavy bills, was killed in a riot provoked by the powerful family of the Colonna.

The Proclamation Line did not bother the majority of settled farmers, but it was unpopular with a vocal minority and ultimately contributed to conflict between the colonists and the British government.

The Dutch Royal Family was unpopular at the time, and Claus von Amsberg was thought to be unacceptable to many Dutch people because of his Hitlerjugend membership during World War II.

With the end of Ahmadinejad s second and final term fast approaching, it seems unlikely that the disgraced, unpopular president will abandon his efforts to destabilize Iran s ruling establishment.

Although Mary's rule was ultimately ineffectual and unpopular, the policies of fiscal reform, naval expansion, and colonial exploration that were later lauded as Elizabethan accomplishments were started in Mary's reign.

However, the war soon became unpopular with most Bulgarians, who suffered great economic hardship and also disliked fighting their fellow Orthodox Christians in alliance with the Muslim Ottomans.

In 1783 the Empress granted him another estate at Gatchina, where he was allowed to maintain a brigade of soldiers whom he drilled on the Prussian model, still an unpopular stance at the time.

In Sweden, however, the new union mark in particular became quite unpopular and was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillsallaten (Swedish) or Sildesalaten (Norwegian) after a colourful dish of pickled herring, decorated with red beets and apples in a radial pattern.

Lord Rockingham, with the support of Pitt and the King, repealed Grenville's unpopular Stamp Act, but his government was weak and he was replaced in 1766 by Pitt, whom George created Earl of Chatham.

By 1258, Henry's rule was increasingly unpopular, the result of the failure of his expensive foreign policies and the notoriety of his Poitevin half brothers, the Lusignans, as well as the role of his local officials in collecting taxes and debts.