1.   Also cited as possible candidates for defense were Dan Meridor, a justice minister in the last Likud government, and Ehud Olmert, the popular mayor of Jerusalem.

2.   Asked how he could mount a late-starting campaign against a popular mayor, Flynn pointed to his first mayoral campaign.

3.   Both cities have unusually popular mayors.

4.   Boxer is facing a challenge by Susan Golding, the popular GOP mayor of San Diego.

5.   But right now, no one wants to speak publicly against so popular a mayor.

6.   But most political experts seriously doubt that Jackson would make such a run, especially against an incumbent mayor as popular as Richard M. Daley.

7.   But whether that is enough to persuade voters to abandon a popular mayor is another question.

8.   Mets manager Bobby Valentine popped out of the dugout and led the cheers for the popular mayor.

9.   Gusinsky, in criticizing the attack on Chechnya and supporting the popular Moscow mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, has crossed powerful Yeltsin loyalists.

10.   In the furor that followed, however, it was the popular mayor who shouldered all the chagrin.