Blagojevich was able to leverage a string of endorsements from popular figures like Chicago Mayor Richard M.
Mr Kohl, after all, remains one of Germany's most popular figures as well as the party's honorary chairman.
Former Chelsea coach Scolari is one of the most popular figures in Brazil, after leading the Selecao in their last successful World Cup in 2002.
Not Manuel Asensio , a combative soul whose noisy frontal assaults on his targets have made him one of the least popular figures on Wall Street.
One of the most popular figures on the golfing stage, the revered Watson tried to play down the gulf in age between his players and himself at the New York press conference.
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He will have to gamble that the public will prefer a Tory party that is united on the euro at the next election to one that still includes popular figures such as Mr Clarke and Mr Heseltine.
Despite the litany of problems, Daly remains one of the most popular figures in the sport and at this year's Masters at Augusta he wasn't too far away from the action after setting up a stall selling memorabilia in the car park opposite.
And in this vacuum, one of the most popular public figures is not a politician but Arkady Gaydamak, a populist billionaire who spreads his money around like water and unashamedly proclaims his desire to be a kingmaker behind the scenes.
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Sadr remains one of the most popular and powerful figures in Iraq.
The performers dress to resemble popular icons and entertainment figures, posing for pictures in exchange for a few dollars in tips.
The quite popular Black-Scholes calculator figures the value of warrants using current price, strike price, time until expiry, interest rate risk and share volatility as variables.
Diminishing polling figures and the vicissitudes of popular thinking will likely not matter to al Qaeda, given its self-appointed transcendental mission.
He also described Beryl Cook, whose whimsical paintings of buxom figures, as being more popular and recognisable than many of the artists featured in Britain's biggest galleries.
Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon's most popular ayatollah, demanded that Mr Qaradawi produce figures to back up his claim of a Shia missionary drive and that he explain what danger it would be to Islam if one Sunni decided to adopt Shiism.
According to new figures, the show is currently the most popular commercial breakfast slot in London, with 1.17 million listeners each week.
But the popular response to the unilateralist thesis enunciated by such senior figures as Haim Ramon and Shlomo Ben-Ami was too strong for Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the party's chairman, to withstand.
But he realizes that these days public employees are not the most popular people around and with budget cuts always looming he figures it would be a good idea to hedge his employment bets.
Early reactions to the new figures suggest they are set to prove almost as popular as the real thing.
Mr Kuchma's greatest weakness is his lack of popular support - his opinion poll approval rating is in single figures.
The most popular shopping street in the region was Channel Street in Galashiels, with average figures several thousand higher than its closest rival, Hawick High Street.
Figures gathered by the OFT reveal that the vast majority of the most popular smartphone games were free to install but raised cash for their creators via in-app purchases.
The same fate awaits contemporary old-media figures unwilling to grapple with the challenge of the new media, no matter how popular they may be today.
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"It hasn't released figures about the dongle it launched in the US but has indicated that it is popular so it makes sense to have an optimised version for the European market, " she said.
Unlike other known political figures such as Sir Winston Churchill, she said, it was impossible to tell how popular the items would be.
Recent figures show that it has knocked the Japanese yen off its perch as the third most popular currency held as reserves by the world's central banks.
The flight was carrying 71 people, including 48 foreign passengers, from the city of Mandalay to Heho airport in Shan State, the gateway to a popular tourist destination, Inle Lake, Air Bagan said in a statement Tuesday evening that revised earlier figures.
They have proved so popular that the firm recently boasted that the characters had overtaken Star Wars to become the best-selling action figures in the US and Europe.
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