1.  All three bills had popular support, according to polls.

2.  However, the Market women received enormous popular support and the municipal government was eventually forced to capitulate.

3.  It now had members in Stormont and increasing popular support and, more importantly, it had a clear Protestant identity.

4.  It would not be surprising if, to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions, reformers had to work very hard.

5.  Many of his ideas have gained popular support.

6.  Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco.

7.  Surveys continue to show strong popular support for such direct democratic measures.

8.  The essential need when a proposed redevelopment poses a threat is to rally popular support.

9.  The regime was given strong backing by the Soviet Union but failed to gain widespread popular support.