Reforming the Czechs' pension system and their health service will be necessary but unpopular.
Removing the subsidy and passing on the cost of gas to consumers was necessary but unpopular.
Mr Clinton is by no means the first president to be popular in the country, but unpopular in Washington.
Attaching conditions to aid can strengthen the arm of governments that are trying to push through wise but unpopular measures.
But, equally, a majority of Labour voters see Mr Miliband as strong and determined and willing to take tough but unpopular decisions.
George W. Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq, completing his terms but enormously unpopular.
Earlier this year Elop signed a strategic tie-up with Microsoft that would see Nokia move away from its long-standing but increasingly unpopular Symbian operating system, to embrace Windows Phone.
Less memorable, but equally unpopular, has been the steady drumbeat of post-office closures, disappearing village shops and, more recently, the threat of shutting schools in the name of administrative efficiency.
It cannot harm Mr de Villepin that France's health scares have been grabbing headlines at a time when he is trying to push through parliament a more flexible but hugely unpopular new employment contract for those under 26.
Some posted cartoons mocking Leung, who is backed by Beijing but widely unpopular, and circulated a satirical photo-montage joking that donations would be spent on prostitutes, shopping trips and expensive cars and houses for Communist Party bureaucrats.
And that required some tough, in some cases unpopular but unnecessary -- all which were necessary steps.
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The first was the defeat last month of a law increasing civil servants' pension contributions, an unpopular but essential measure.
She claims the small reforms in pensions, health and welfare that she and her coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party, are undertaking are unpopular but necessary.
Such an election would be reminiscent of Stalinist days: the government is exceedingly unpopular but the weak and fragmented opposition is hounded by the secret police.
Mr Monti, an unelected technocrat, has pushed through some unpopular but long-delayed reforms, including big public service cuts, since taking over from Mr Berlusconi a year ago with the EU's approval.
"A decision may be unpopular but ultimately the state has to act responsibly in a grown-up fashion to protect all people sometimes from risks that they wish to impose upon themselves, " Mr Needham added.
Mr Kuchma himself won the presidency five years ago, running as a pro-Russian left-winger in a similar scrap against an unpopular but powerful incumbent who had also taken a solid lead in the first round.
Inheritance tax is undoubtedly unpopular but it deters saving less than most other taxes on capital accumulation, as Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, pointed out in a recent lecture in London.
As long as the Obama administration continues to play politics with entitlements, as opposed to putting forward unpopular but easy to implement solutions, the system will go broke sooner rather than later and there will be lots of other unpleasant side effects.
But racial preferences are unpopular among whites, and the most blatant ones are, increasingly, illegal.
But it has proved unpopular with dentists, with about one in ten refusing to sign it.
He said "difficult, sometimes unpopular, but necessary decisions" will have to be taken to reduce that number.
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But his government is unpopular: an April poll found that 73% of Quebeckers are unhappy with its performance.
But the law remains unpopular, and party leaders were urging the president to go all in during his convention address.
Not good enough, retort critics, who see Lula as having surfed the commodity boom on Mr Cardoso's unpopular, but necessary, liberalising reforms.
"Road tax as a lump sum is very unpopular, but it has to be replaced with something that isn't worse, " he added.
You can admire Bradshaw for sticking to her guns with some of this, but to call it unpopular would be a massive understatement.
But he was reportedly unpopular with the rest of senior management.
Austerity measures have made the government unpopular, but they are working.
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