The relative absence of road-pricing schemes reflects the fact that they are generally unpopular.

They believe that a higher rate for top earners would not be generally unpopular.

They were generally unpopular and were only played for five seasons.

His army colleagues reported that he was a liar and braggart, and generally unpopular.

This met with mixed but generally unpopular reception.

Money aside, the work was very much in line with his tradition of acting for the underdog, or the unpopular cause.

He was a generous private philanthropist, whose benefactions (often to unpopular causes) continued for 60 years.

His support for these two unpopular causes seems to have doomed him.

He was a wise and kindly man who was prepared to use his influence to support unpopular causes.

Long-time champion of minority and sometimes unpopular causes.

Voters do not like the way politicians normally perform, particularly defending an unpopular government.

Opposition leaders in history have contrasted their own intellectual fecundity with the tiredness of an unpopular government.

It now faces an unpopular government making necessary cuts that are a ubiquitous local issue.

Cabinet papers from 30 years ago record the deliberations of an unpopular government trying to reverse a bitter economic legacy and cope with civil unrest.

As the opposition to an unpopular government and defending a poor 2015 result, gains should have been a foregone conclusion.

They ummed and ahhed, afraid of taking an unpopular position.

When he took an unpopular position — his commitment to reducing prison numbers, for example — he would balance that with longer sentences for dangerous criminals.

Nor are they afraid to lead and to take unpopular positions.

Invariably, he answered questions directly, put issues in context and was unafraid to take politically unpopular positions.

His work has shown a maverick tendency, with a willingness to take up unpopular positions that go against the mainstream.

It will then be for the politicians to decide whether they wish to force through a regressive and unpopular reform.

Bankers were sceptical that politicians or regulators would have the courage to impose such a potentially unpopular reform.

Some presidential supporters have expressed fears that they risk alienating the public with potentially unpopular reforms ahead of municipal elections next spring.

Accused of poor staff management (at least a dozen senior officials quit her ministry), she angered magistrates and her own party's politicians by arrogantly pushing through unpopular reforms.

He also implemented a number of unpopular reforms at the request of the proprietor.

They will have little reason to look forward to next year's district council elections if unpopular tax increases and spending cuts are implemented.

He would also avoid having to announce unpopular tax rises and brutal cuts in the next parliament.

The unpopular tax applies to most types of insurance - including motor, home and pet cover.

They'll have to find a way to fund all their new promises but without creating a backlash against unpopular tax rises.

The override of the veto fell a vote short, and the massively unpopular tax was kept in effect.

For the soldiers who served there, the sense of having fought an unpopular war will be hard to remove.

One voted against an unpopular war; the other supported both the invasion and the surge.

The ferocity of its reputation and the fear of a complex and unpopular war has so far been a powerful deterrent to western governments from getting involved.

Worth had to cut back on the unpopular war: he released nearly 1,000 civilian employees and consolidated commands.

Soldiers do not make the decision to engage in unpopular wars.

Nonetheless, the change was widely unpopular, and had repeatedly been voted down over the previous forty years.

The decision and its timing were widely unpopular.

The new law was widely unpopular, and bootlegging became rampant.

The decision was widely unpopular, and spurred various states to enact laws prohibiting the practice.

Prohibition, though publicly embraced by community leaders, was privately widely unpopular in the state.

Usually, at a central bank, it means taking wildly unpopular decisions.

Both men seem to acknowledge that community sentences have been largely unsuccessful at rehabilitation, and wildly unpopular.

These included ending a wildly popular tax-free savings scheme for university education and adding even more taxes to the wildly unpopular estate tax.

The smoking ban was wildly unpopular both among prisoners and guards.

The demolition was wildly unpopular with residents.