Sankara seized power in a 1983 popularly supported coup at the age of 33, with the goal of eliminating corruption and the dominance of the former French colonial power.

Some Helans are fighting, but they're quickly losing heart, as their decision ain't popularly supported.

After putting away the cause of the younger and less popularly supported one, he formed an alliance with Brancus.

The intervention was popularly supported in Mali, as Hollande promised that his government would do all it could to "rebuild Mali".

Fidel Castro won control of Cuba through a popularly supported revolution against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

At the beginning of Suharto's New Order in 1966 the policies of economic development were popularly supported.

Public opinion polls have shown the great majority of Americans opposed to such a scheme because of what liberals sneeringly call "the Puritan Ethic," the popularly supported theory that every man should work for an income.

In the late 1980s, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II launched a popularly supported campaign aiming at the restoration of the church to the Georgian Patriarchate.

Carlson writes: To an observer from the Year 2000, the most amazing thing about this system was that it was both understood by the average people and popularly supported.

The two goals are intertwined: the allied forces need the cooperation of Iraqis to ferret out their attackers and want to prevent guerrilla attacks from developing into a popularly supported insurgency.