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‘A support can be popular.’

[⟨det support.n⟩ popular.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

What they don’t get here, with popular support, they try to make up for beseeching it abroad.
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In the British National Corpus:

The Party could always be relied upon to orchestrate the massive demonstrations whose purpose was to cow those who doubted Franco’s strength and silence allegations that the regime was not legitimated by popular support.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It has gained much popular support within many communities, mentioned by talk show hosts and celebrities.
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In Wikipedia:

In 2001 Cornwall demonstrated the largest expression of popular support for devolved power in the whole of the United Kingdom and possibly Europe when a 50,000 petition for a Cornish Assembly was handed to the government.
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In the British National Corpus:

Magnentius had caused deep offence in the first place merely by being a barbarian and a pagan, but above all, by murdering Constans, also, no doubt, for receiving such widespread popular support from the peoples of the western provinces.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Hirschl recognizes that? [a] t the uneasy intersection of two present – day trends – the tremendous increase of popular support for principles of theocratic governance and the global spread of constitutionalism – a new legal order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. (Id., 1188).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But there are some good indications here that Thailand enjoys a strong and deep current of popular support for democracy.
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In Wikipedia:

Recent popular support.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Strong with a popular support, including among women and youth, the secular political coalition was considered as top danger by the armed Islamists.
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In Wikipedia:

So as the PCI was gaining popular support, the number of civilian – targeted bombings, random knee – cappings, and high – profile kidnappings blamed on communist terrorists increased markedly.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He added opposition measures of pressure like roadblocks, strikes and occupation of public institutions just increases popular support to the new period of changes.
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In Wikipedia:

Another suggested reform uniting all remaining five municipalities in Berchtesgaden valley (Bischofswiesen, Ramsau, Marktschellenberg and Schnau) failed to gain enough popular support; it passed in Berchtesgaden and failed everywhere else.
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In Wikipedia:

The conservative sectors, which had stayed in power for decades through dubious and fraudulent elections, could not consolidate a political party without popular support.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Popular support?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He described the course likely to be pursued, and the political ground occupied, by an aristocratic party in opposition, coquetting with popular principles for the sake of popular support.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I said it a zillion times and I will keep saying it – you want to take the popular support from Hizballah?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Zardari vowed at his swearing in to work with neighbors including Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who had tensions with Musharraf, but said defeating the militants required popular support and avoiding civilian casualties.
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In Wikipedia:

The Hashemite Dynasty originates in the Hejaz and is actually alien to Jordan, but it continues to rule Jordan with general popular support.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Meanwhile the majority Democratic party is agitating, with plenty of popular support, for a’ ’ windfall profits tax’ ’ on energy companies.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.