The popularity of SUVs, golf, and urban sprawl has been used as evidence that some ideas of freedom and ecological conservation can clash.

Palmer's charisma was a major factor in establishing golf as a compelling television event in the 1950s and 1960s, setting the stage for the popularity it enjoys today.

After this, golf quickly became a sport of national popularity and importance.

* 1513-Queen Catherine, queen consort of England, in a letter to Cardinal Wolsey, refers to the growing popularity of golf in England.

The popularity of the ' Happy Valley Entertainers ' open air theatre having declined, the theatre closed in 1985 and likewise the two miniature golf courses closed and were converted in 1987 to create a artificial ski slope and toboggan run.

And in the 1970s, at the height of streaking's popularity, a young man who broke into the Augusta National golf course in Augusta, Georgia ( albeit not while the Masters was in play ) was actually shot with buckshot and slightly wounded.

The Town Council of St. Andrews decided to allow rabbit farming on the golf course to challenge golf for popularity.

However, at the time golf was a relatively new sport in America, and as popularity of the sport grew, so did the country club.

Balfour is appointed Chief Secretary ( Cabinet Minister ) for Ireland ; his rise to political and social prominence has an incalculable effect on the popularity of golf, as he is an indefatigable player and catalyzes great interest in the game through his writing and public speaking.

Robertson significantly improved the Old Course by enlarging its greens, to allow for the increase in golf popularity.

Leveraging the popularity of golf to promote their cars, Nash Motors and Nash dealers sponsored what the automaker described as " more than 20 major golf tournaments across the country " in 1953, and golfer Sam Snead was shown with his Nash-Healey roadster on the cover of the June 1953 issue of Nash News.

During the 20s, 30s and 40s, the advent of the Ryder Cup, new golf heroes such as Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen and Henry Cotton, all helped golf's popularity and reinforced the PGA's position as a leading golf organisation.

Titleist owes this popularity due to the sales of their golf balls.

ECCO ’ s new line of golf shoes also enjoyed a surge of popularity in 2010 when ECCO-sponsored golfer Fred Couples received worldwide media attention for his ECCO " Golf Street " golf shoes during the 2010 Masters golf tournament.

The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

This treatise is not mentioned in surviving Greek sources, but it enjoyed great popularity in the Muslim world, and a large number of copies have survived.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

A common non-traditional wood gaining popularity is sapele, which is tonally similar to mahogany but slightly lighter in color and possessing a deep grain structure that is visually appealing.

Never achieving the popularity of Weill and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny is still considered a work of stature with a haunting score.

A cappella is gaining popularity among South Asians with the emergence of primarily Hindi-English College groups.

The popularity of the motto Zazpiak Bat is attributed to Abbadie.

This form of the Apostles ' Creed can be found incorporated into the Eucharistic and Baptismal Liturgies in the Hymnal and in The United Methodist Book of Worship, and hence it is growing in popularity and use.

The widespread popularity of glass beads does not mean aboriginal bead making is dead.

Despite its popularity with young consumers, it is critically discussed in European media, NGOs, political parties, and market surveillance regarding its nutritional values, choking hazards, and traces of unwanted chemical substances.

Bouldering is increasing in popularity ; bouldering areas are common in indoor climbing gyms and some climbing gyms are dedicated solely to bouldering.

Beltane regained popularity during the Celtic Revival and is still observed as a cultural festival by some in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and among their diasporas.

Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, known now as NYC & Company.

An extension that has gained significant popularity since 2003 is Satisfiability modulo theories ( SMT ) that can enrich CNF formulas with linear constraints, arrays, all-different constraints, uninterpreted functions, etc.

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

Its popularity can in part be explained by its neoplatonic and Christian ethical messages, although current scholarly research is still far from clear exactly why and how the work became so vastly popular in the Middle Ages.

For many reasons, including its age and its popularity among Western militaries, it is one of the most universally known card games in existence.

Tourism is traditionally a notable source of income, particularly during the summer months, but also more recently during the winter months as well, due to an increase in popularity of snow sports such as skiing.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

Separate phonographs also had a good year, reflecting the growing popularity of stereo sound and the same tendency on the part of the consumer to upgrade that characterized the radio-TV market.

Co-ed South Asian a cappella groups are also gaining in popularity.

Jewish-interest groups such as the University of Chicago's Shircago and Yale University's Magevet are also gaining popularity across the U. S.

A similar technology called NAPLPS was also considered, and although it became the underlying graphics technology behind the Prodigy service, it never gained popularity in the BBS market.

Such games are also created to capitalize on the popularity of other forms of entertainment, such as Pokémon and Marvel Comics which both have had CCGs created around them.

Other approaches gaining in popularity include the use of dynamical systems theory and also techniques putting symbolic models and connectionist models into correspondence ( Neural-symbolic integration ).

Bayesian models, often drawn from machine learning, are also gaining popularity.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

His name is also written in Taiwan as " The Late President Lord Chiang " ( 先總統 蔣公 ), where the one-character-wide space known as nuo tai shows respect ; this practice has lost some popularity.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

Bentley's friend, G. K. Chesterton, was also a practitioner of the clerihew and one of the sources of its popularity.

Yes also produced concept albums during the ' 70s, most notably Tales from Topographic Oceans, which would become a defining album of prog rock, but its critical backlash would lead to the genre's decline in popularity and the rise of punk rock.

Time domain algorithms such as LPC also often have low latencies, hence their popularity in speech coding for telephony.

Due to the popularity of the sea's therapeutic and healing properties, several companies have also shown interest in the manufacturing and supplying of Dead Sea salts as raw materials for body and skin care products.

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

This workshop was also responsible for the theme to the TV series Doctor Who, a piece, largely created by Delia Derbyshire, that more than any other ensured the popularity of electronic music in the UK.

The British presence also left a lasting popularity for British chocolate, which is readily available in Faroese shops but uncommon in Denmark.

The decade probably also saw the so-called " women's pictures ", such as Now, Voyager, Random Harvest and Mildred Pierce at the peak of their popularity.

During the immediate post-war years the cinematic industry was also threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would bankrupt and close.

The seventies also saw the start of the " idol eiga ", films starring young " idols ", who would bring in audiences due to their fame and popularity.

The King ( and many Feuillants with him ) expected war would increase his personal popularity ; he also foresaw an opportunity to exploit any defeat: either result would make him stronger.

The popularity of the Futurama exhibit fit closely with the fair ’ s overall theme “ The World Of Tomorrow ” not just in its emphasis on the future, but also in its redesign of the American landscape.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

The optional interlacing feature, which stores image scan lines out of order in such a fashion that even a partially downloaded image was somewhat recognizable, also helped GIF's popularity, as a user could abort the download if it was not what was required.