Their job is to uphold the Constitution, regardless of how popular or unpopular a decision may be.
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The question, as always, is whether this government has the stomach to implement so unpopular a policy.
Mr Bush's victory shows how much power a president has in wartime, even a deeply unpopular president fighting a deeply unpopular war.
Obama won big with his healthcare law, despite it being unpopular for a while.
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Mr Giuliani, like his erstwhile opponent, was terribly unpopular with a large chunk of the electorate.
But a troop buildup remains unpopular, with a separate question indicating that a majority opposes sending more troops.
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On returning home, Mr Miller, who has become deeply unpopular as a result of corruption scandals, bungled health reforms and Poland's 20% unemployment rate, announced his resignation (see article).
But that failure was rooted in the fact that much of current conservative policy is broadly unpopular, a problem only compounded when the party becomes more polarized and dominated by the far-right debating society.
Faced with a deeply unpopular prime minister, a government riven by plots and intrigue, and the worst economic climate since the late 1940s, how on earth did David Cameron fail to win the 2010 general election?
Democratic hopes in the mid-term elections are perhaps best served by keeping to local issues, diverting attention away from a bleak national economy, unpopular wars and a president with dragging approval ratings.
For the first time since a spate of aggressive and unpopular lawsuits almost a decade ago, the music and movie industries are going after Internet users they accuse of swapping copyrighted files online.
He may reckon that this will help to turn a referendum on unpopular constitutional changes into a vote for or against him (see article).
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It takes a more determined president than Lula to pilot unpopular measures through a legislature where laws stand or fall on the whims of special interests, regional claques and a voracious demand for pork and patronage.
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The lack of economic debate may have been a relief to Mr Howard after his government's unpopular introduction of a "goods and services tax" (GST), similar to VAT was blamed for dampening the economy earlier this year.
Depending on your point of view, Volcker was either a hero for having the courage to see through a politically unpopular prescription to high inflation or a villain for keeping the economy down long after it was necessary.
On April 1st, his inner cabinet held a much-advertised discussion of a new Israeli initiative to end the army's increasingly unpopular occupation of a slice of southern Lebanon.
So is there a real penalty for going over the cliff other than politics, other than concern that it might be unpopular for about a year?
That such views should be expressed by a former Gaullist, at a time when the EU is unpopular, was perhaps a surprise.
Meanwhile, Team Kerry did next to nothing to make Cheney, who was already a highly unpopular and divisive figure by that point, a liability for the Republican ticket.
Her supporters, especially abroad, fear she is afraid to take a politically unpopular stand now that her party will mount a bid for power in the next general election in 2015.
Why carry on with a deeply unpopular idea when those remaining could attribute it to a former regime?
Taxes of any kind are unpopular, and a gasoline tax poses some special problems.
Never underestimate the power of Improvisation to turn an unpopular change into a winning strategy.
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As an unelected leader he will have to implement deeply unpopular cuts without a mandate.
RFK's 1968 presidential bid, which combined vocal opposition to an unpopular war with a telegenic focus on alleviating poverty.
Worse, the government is sorely testing the loyalty of Senegal's soldiers, sent to fight an unpopular war for a neighbour.
Mr Singh did, however, push through another unpopular measure: a reduction in the interest rates the government pays on small-savings schemes.
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Speaking your mind about an unpopular issue in a meeting at work.
Political support for the government remains shaky: Mr de la Rua is deeply unpopular, and a congressional election is due in October.
You can admire Bradshaw for sticking to her guns with some of this, but to call it unpopular would be a massive understatement.
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