8 sentences with 'unpopular'

Example sentences and phrases with the word unpopular and other words derived from it.

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« In February 1848 in France, the unpopular King Louis Philippe unwisely attempted to suppress the gatherings of would-be reformers. »
« King Charles X, the arch-conservative and almost deluded king of France from 1824 to 1830, was one of the most unpopular monarchs in Europe. »
« Louis Philippe himself became increasingly unpopular over the years (satirical caricatures of the time often depicted him as an obese, pampered pear). »
« The British Parliament tried to impose unpopular taxes on the American colonists to help pay for British troops there during and after the Seven Years' War. »
« Britain had coal, and the English and Scots had long known that it could be burned and produced heat. However, for many centuries, it was an unpopular fuel source. »
« The anti-Napoleonic coalition had returned the throne to the Bourbons in the person of the unpopular Louis XVIII, younger brother of the executed Louis XVI, and when a French force sent to capture Napoleon defected instead, the coalition realised that they had not really won. »
« A furious defence by Russian forces slowed the German advance in the winter of 1916-1917, but the war was deeply unpopular on the home front and more and more soldiers deserted rather than face the Germans. It was against this backdrop of imminent defeat that a popular revolution overthrew the tsarist state. »
« The constitution of Weimar Germany guaranteed universal suffrage for men and women, fundamental human rights and the complete rejection of the remnants of monarchism. Unfortunately, the government of the new republic was deeply unpopular with many groups, including right-wing army veterans like the young Adolf Hitler. »

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