Popularity of the VFL grew rapidly and by 1925 with 12 teams, had become the most prominent league in the game and would dominate so many aspects of the sport from that point on.

Popularity of Salukis dramatically increased, and the Saluki Club of America was founded in 1927, with recognition by The American Kennel Club following in 1929.

Popularity with all parts of the Labour movement saw him through the ballot of Labour MPs to win the leadership vote.

Popularity of sports tended to conform to class divisions, with tennis and yachting popular among the very wealthy and football ( soccer ) favoured by the poorest.

Popularity took another major surge in 2009 with UFC 100 and the 10 events preceding it including UFC 90, 91, 92, 94 and 98.

Popularity of the cut in the UK and Ireland can be traced to the influence of fashion ' icon ' and ex Spice Girl Victoria Beckham having had her hair bobbed in the same style, with girls asking hairdressers for a " Pob "— Ms Beckham's nickname Posh Spice conflated with " bob ".

Popularity of the term among teenagers rose in the mid-2000s, with the spread from the Internet written form to use in spoken language.

Popularity grew with the publication of Owen Wister's The Virginian in 1902 and especially Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage in 1912.

He apparently remixed the original recordings in 2002 with the intention of releasing them on his new label, Popularity Recordings.

With a sarcastic nod towards the concept of the label wanting to do a ' greatest-hits ' album for a band with only independent releases, and no real ' hits ' The Kimberly Trip decided to call the record " Popularity Contest ".

Popularity in America and Australia was muted, with the track falling short of an American Top 40 position and being restricted to a small musical niche with Australians.

* Popularity with anglers

Popularity continued to grow, and in 1980 it was moved to Kennedy Park with an increased 300 participants, including children, dogs, and a bag piper.

Popularity of the NDP gradually increased under leader Grant Notley, who led the party from 1968 until his death in a plane crash in 1984, and was the party's sole MLA until 1982.

Popularity of the dental hygiene and dental assistant programs led to the construction of the Health Sciences Annex, completed in 2001.

In 2005, Vega was the setting for the CMT reality show, Popularity Contest.

* 2005 SBS Popularity Award

* 2005 Baeksang Arts Awards: Popularity Award for Duelist

* 2005 Blue Dragon Film Awards: Popularity Award for Duelist

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

Popularity of CATV started in the 1980s after the Marcos administration.

Popularity of the book in Italy was such that a Milan bookseller issued an Italian edition in 1610.

Popularity of EVM has grown significantly in recent years beyond government contracting, in which sector its importance continues to rise ( e. g., recent new DFAR rules ), in part because EVM can also surface in and help substantiate contract disputes.

Popularity quickly followed in the rest of Europe, and it became a global phenomenon from the early-to-mid 90s onwards.

Niven resumed his acting career after his demobilisation, and was voted the second most popular British actor in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars.

Popularity in psychology grew as the public became more aware of the field.

Popularity in the sport has grown since the 2002 Winter Olympics and now includes participation by some countries that do not have or cannot have a track because of climate, terrain or monetary limitations.

In the early 2000s, Alexakis established his own label, Popularity Recordings, as a subsidiary of Artemis Records.

* Ottenberg, June C. " Popularity of Two Operas in Philadelphia in the 1790s.

Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common, or having a high social status.

Popularity figures are an important part of many people's personal value systems and form a vital component of success in people-oriented fields such as management, politics, and entertainment, among others.

* The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations Among Female Adolescents # Donna Eder ; Sociology of Education, Vol.

The name Nakula generally means full of love and the male characteristics implied by the name are: Intelligence, Focus, Hard-Work, Handsomeness, Health, Attractiveness, Success, Popularity, Respect, and unconditional Love.

These include Differentiation, Satisfaction or Loyalty, Perceived Quality, Leadership or Popularity, Perceived Value, Brand Personality, Organizational Associations, Brand Awareness, Market Share, and Market Price and Distribution Coverage.

Popularity can be established to a greater or lesser degree depending on product and market.

* Popularity of folk music of Sufi genres: introduction of philosophy and religion in music.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

Blank helped resurrect the excitement in the Georgia Dome with added value to the fans with increased tailgating, parking, and entertainment and lower ticket prices.

It also attracted a wider crowd of mostly younger fans, some of whom occasionally performed with the group, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Geoff Bradford, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page.

Its design was modeled after English football stadiums with the objective being to give fans a closer view of the pitch.

Today, as with many older consoles, there is still a small group of devoted fans, creating and selling games for the system.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

The new generation of DJs and musicians of the 2000s who have fallen in love with both Kuti's material and other rare releases have made compilations and remixes of these recordings, thus re-introducing the genre to new generations of listeners and fans of afropop and groove.

The Bronx's gritty urban life had worked its way into the movies even earlier, with depictions of the " Bronx cheer ", a loud flatulent-like sound of disapproval, allegedly first made by New York Yankees fans.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

Starting the following game, the song ( a favorite among many fans, who appreciated its references to Wild Bill Hagy and Earl Weaver ) was only played ( along with a video featuring several Orioles stars performing the song ) after wins.

", to which he received a resounding cheer from the crowd, after which he went out and took his ' lap of honour ' where he met and shook hands with many of the fans.

Because they are excited, these fans hit the balloon at different times and in different directions with the motions being completely random.

It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following with a specific group of fans.

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

A similar phenomenon is also true within the field of professional sports as professional athletes who are directly involved directly with the competition, the physical aspects of scoring and defending, as well as being widely spectated by fans are more than likely to become celebrities.