He was very popular with the supporters at Swansea and I'm sure that will be the same here.

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And, Larry, when he was here at Harvard, would give you a guest lecture every year and he was very popular among students.

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Mr Farron praised Nick Clegg as a good leader and said he was "very popular" within the party.

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Teacher Mark Jeffreys, who taught Rifleman Bassett at the community college, said he was "a very quiet, unassuming student who was popular with everybody".

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He had many friends and was very popular in the community.

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Similarly, historians consistently mark Harding as a failure, though he presided over remarkably good times and was very popular.

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The Kinect add-on for the Xbox was proving very popular, he said, with more than eight million of the motion-spotting systems sold.

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He said Martyn's victory was a very popular one with the crowd.

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He added that since the integration between Instagram and Twitter was very popular among users, it now remained to be seen whether Facebook would introduce a Twitter-like functionality of its own.

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Yet Stoudemire remains very popular with fans, who remember that he was the big star willing to take on the rebuilding project in the summer of 2010 and has been willing to come off the bench now.

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That would be a bitter reverse for Mr Romney in the first rustbelt state in the Midwest to hold a primary, the very state where he grew up and where his father was a popular governor.

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