The lofty titles of the morning star, and the death of the Saracens, were applied in the public acclamations to Nicephorus Phocas, a prince as renowned in the camp, as he was unpopular in the city.
In his epistles, or in a personal interview, he revealed the wealth and nakedness of his country; the weakness of an unpopular prince; the degeneracy of an effeminate people.
There were many people who knew he was unpopular at Court; unpopular being the mildest word possible.
This policy was unpopular with the governor, the military generally and the people, and made General Pemberton, an honest and patriotic soldier, bothunpopular and mistrusted.
The potato has been introduced to our Indian Empire, and though it was unpopular at first, the people have since become partial to it.
One unpopular tax was the gabelle, or salt tax, which compelled every person to bring a fixed quantity of salt every year, and made them buy it of certain people who alone had the right to sell, and charged enormous prices.
On his death his son Omar Leila succeeded, and he also was as unpopular as his father.
Of all this the Khalifa is well aware; but I do not think he realises how unpopular he really is, and his constant effort is to retain the sympathy of his Emirs by frequently sending them secretly by night presents of money and slaves.
He was anunpopular writer on an unpopular subject.
He had as keen an instinct for popularity as a bee has for blossoms; he knew how to do or to direct unpopular things on dark nights with a dark lantern, how to do or to direct popular things in full uniform on a white horse.
It was a high reward--but she would not have thanked him for a daughter--daughters have always been unpopular here.
Others wrote as they did, because they feared it would be unpopular to write otherwise.
The system of paying percentage is very unpopular with the rank and file of the workmen; whether the chargeman's behaviour is good or bad, he is heartily hated by most of the men in consequence of it.
Under such circumstances it will not be wondered at that the clerk is sometimes an unpopular figure in the shed and is looked upon with disfavour, though very often unjustly so.
If we are not yet compelled to answer it in the affirmative, there is so much evidence pointing toward such an answer, that it is well to consider very respectfully indeed whatever can be said on the unpopular side.
When Harding found himself unpopular and distrusted he as naturally shaped his conduct so as to justify its condemnation.
The French marriage had always been unpopular in England, great resentment being felt at the concessions that had been made with regard to the public performance of Roman Catholic rites.
To meet its cost without the help of his Parliament, Charles had been compelled to have recourse to forced loans and other unpopular expedients, and the issue was to be a disaster even more humiliating than that of Cadiz.
And yet no law proved more unpopular than this was, for years after it had been enacted.
And Edwin Chadwick is the man who has never failed in courage to do the right thing, even though it should prove to be the unpopular thing.
King Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, as Southampton told his master, was exceedingly unpopularin the Netherlands.
Disorder and rioting grew more frequent, the people demanded more of the Assembly than the latter felt it could grant, the Guards grew increasingly unpopular as the symbol of a law and order the mob did not like.
Within the Assembly itself there were many quarrels and wrangles; sometimes the mob vented its feelings on anunpopular member by attacking his house.
I have seen David Lloyd George, present Prime Minister of England, as the young political free-lance fighting furiously for unpopular causes, fighting sometimes from sheer love of battle.
Was he anything more than a clever young politician seeking notoriety by espousing unpopular courses whenever there was a chance to strike a blow at those high in authority?
In introducing these sentiments, the Secretary remarks, "He is aware he is about to say unpopular things; but higher motives than personal considerations press him to proceed.
It is not strange that the anti-slavery character of this play rendered it an unpopular performance at Liverpool, while the prosperous merchants there were concerned in the slave trade.
When his affairs were most flourishing, he became unpopular with the hungry rabble of the city in six or seven days.
The expedition was unpopular with the soldiers, and Cinna was killed in a mutiny.
He is the most unpopular composer alive with the critical confraternity.
Van Buren made an unpopular agreement with the British minister, whereby the troops were withdrawn and both sides agreed not to use force.
Van Buren sent General Scott to the frontier, did what he could to preserve peace and neutrality, and thus made himself unpopular in the border states.
Fastolf was as unpopular in his old age as any defeated general: there is no unpopularity so great: yet Fastolf was never a defeated general.
Republican Judges;[276] but the name of Necker is unpopular to all parties, and I much fear that the Guillotine will be more speedy than the press.
