The German used the 40-year-old goalkeeper Edward Ansah against an overwhelming popular opinion who were against his choice.
As advocates of drug liberalisation have found, the deadweight of popular opinion admits of little dissent.
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The Diet's less powerful upper chamber has sometimes been a bellwether of popular opinion.
In a democracy, popular opinion is notoriously fickle and frequently insusceptible to rational persuasion.
The more Mr Ozawa bossed his party, the more popular opinion wanted him out.
They were doing what members of the lower body are supposed to do: reflect popular opinion.
Despite popular opinion, baby boomers are not Luddites, but active users and shapers of technology.
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Popular opinion has positioned E3 2012 as a make-or-break proposition for the company.
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The bigger problem is usually Congress, which acts as a lightning rod for American popular opinion.
The defense is a shoulder shrug, a vague statement of reassurance and an appeal to popular opinion.
If popular opinion overwhelmingly associates Catholicism with the papacy, that's partly because effective Vatican theologizing made it so.
No doubt about it, US popular opinion has been very good to Gorbachev.
But Greece is a wounded country and popular opinion cannot be counted on.
And contrary to popular opinion, the actual worm doesn't like rain and comes up to escape the burrows being flooded.
The popular opinion is that the Republican party is more friendly to Wall Street and business than the Democratic Party.
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Contrary to popular opinion, money growth has been slow, not rapid, and measures of inflation have been falling, not rising.
Popular opinion on this issue has tended to vary down the decades, apparently influenced by the wording of the question.
In this area, there are laws to consider, conventions to consider - but, above all, the impact upon popular opinion to consider.
If they misjudged popular opinion, they can be voted out of office.
And there is a popular opinion, particularly among those who have not attended an Ivy League school, that the experience is over-rated.
The internet, and by extension, popular opinion among a broad swath of humanity, has a short attention span, for better and for worse.
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Both figures, I believe, contributed mightily to our current sorry state of affairs, but both did so under the cover of popular opinion.
The pols may respond by bringing their policies into line with popular opinion, which may entail becoming deficit hawks, as Mr Neumann hopes.
In the war's aftermath, with the paint still fresh on Clement Attlee's welfare state, that put Smedley wildly out of step with popular opinion.
More likely it was paranoid about allowing foreigners in after the brutality used against rebellious Buddhist monks in September 2007 had outraged popular opinion.
Part of what makes it so hard to be a successful short seller is that you must swim against the tide of popular opinion.
Contrary to popular opinion, the failure of one or many banks in 2008 would not have led to a collapse in credit for solvent companies.
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Their leaders were learned and judicious men, a minority whose excellence derived not from popular opinion or emotion but from the Enlightenment and its pro-reason virtues.
After a few weeks, I started noticing that, contrary to popular opinion, relaxation is a powerful force and that slowing down actually speeds up the creative process.
Mr Salmond stressed that these were simply SNP ideas and that the constitution in an independent Scotland would be formed with the widest possible involvement of popular opinion.
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