6 sentences with 'popularity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word popularity and other words derived from it.
• « The new rigour of education and the expansion of cathedral schools, helped in part by the popularity of figures such as Peter Abelard, led in turn to the emergence of the first true universities. Initially, they were comparable to craft guilds, with organisations of students and teachers negotiating the cost of tuition and preventing unauthorised teachers from poaching students. »
• « His own poetry and writings became so popular among other educated people that he deserves great personal credit for having brought about the Renaissance itself; following Petrarch, the idea that the classical world could be "reborn" in northern Italy acquired great popularity and cultural force. »
• « However, despite this reforming zeal within the Church and the growing popularity of lay movements outside it, hardly anyone foresaw a permanent break with the Church hierarchy itself. »
• « In this, Napoleon not only saw Russia as the last remaining great power on the continent to oppose him, but hoped to regain lost momentum and popularity. »
• « Despite the popularity of the concept of nationalism among members of the small middle class in northern Italy, it had relatively little mass support (and less than 3% of the population was literate in the standard 'Italian' language, the dialect spoken in the Tuscany region). »
• « Promising complete repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, the building of the German army, an end to economic problems and the restoration of German pride and power, the Nazis steadily grew in popularity: an electoral breakthrough in 1930 enabled them to win 18% of the seats in the Reichstag. »