He said he would press on with planning for potentially unpopular decisions to cut the budget deficit, one of the nation's most intractable problems.

The lawmakers see the Governor as excluding them from other less controversial actions, while trying to pull them into a potentially unpopular one.

Morrison had to take many potentially unpopular and controversial decisions by the nature of wartime circumstances.

Neither Democratic candidate sees mileage now in endorsing such potentially unpopular steps.

In the past, each time the gravity of the problem was identified, officials fainted away at the prospect of imposing a potentially unpopular solution.

Over the years, he has made a series of potentially unpopular observations.

Tsongas won the New Hampshire primary with a campaign grounded in making tough, potentially unpopular budget decisions.

This proposal requires that city leaders make a potentially unpopular decision.

It was a risky and potentially unpopular move.

But he has also taken potentially unpopular steps on behalf of the refugees.