1.   But last year was an election year and state officials were reluctant to make the politically unpopular move of taking away a tax cut authorized by state law.

2.   Fed policymakers prefer to raise rates, always an unpopular move, on bad inflation news rather than good employment news.

3.   In announcing what they acknowledge is an unpopular move, team officials set into motion what may become a marathon legal battle over unanticipated tax money.

4.   In another unpopular move, soldiers have enforced a ban on miniskirts and tight pants.

5.   In an unpopular move, he sent center Denis Savard to Montreal for defenseman Chris Chelios.

6.   It was a deeply unpopular move, contributing greatly to the disenchantment with Gandhi among feminists, secularists and, most of all, the broad Hindu middle class.

7.   MU, in an unpopular move, is suggesting trimming scholarship aid.

8.   Q. You almost traded Xavier McDaniel to Washington for Kevin Duckworth, which would have been a very unpopular move with the fans, the media and your players.

9.   That makes blazing the tenure trail an unpopular move among university faculty members and administrators.

10.   The bill he signed into law eliminated the sales tax on condoms, an unpopular move with certain conservative constituencies.