One need look no further than the strong, unpopular stands he took on issues like more stringent academic standards for college athletes.

Instead he had gone out on a limb, taking unpopular stands.

There tends to be a lot of agreement in education, but she'll take an unpopular stand.

Bishop Hubbard has shown a tendency to take unpopular stands.

The Governor, they said, was taking an unpopular but justifiably tough stand against excessive spending.

And he does not see value in taking unpopular stands that grab headlines but do not necessarily yield results.

An individual juror should not fear exposure of an unpopular stand inside the sanctity of the jury room.

Careers can be wrecked by taking an unpopular stand.

"That's the question: are you willing to take an unpopular stand for the people of New Jersey?"

That's not to say that even in the early part of the last century, celebrities didn't occasionally take unpopular stands.