A champion of breed purity, she struggled alone for nearly three decades, and real Saluki popularity did not take hold until the early 1920s, when officers returning from the war in the Middle East and the Arab Revolt brought their pet Salukis home with them.

The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he travelled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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.

Burns's articles popularized both the legend and its new name, making it well known in western Canada before it gained popularity in the United States.

Haley was soon eclipsed in the United States by the younger, sexier Elvis, but continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia through the 1960s.

The United Nations considered adopting such a reformed calendar for a while in the 1950s, but these proposals have lost most of their popularity.

Contra dances were fashionable in the United States until the early to mid-19th century, when they were supplanted in popularity by square dances ( such as the quadrille and lancers ) and couple dances ( such as the waltz and polka ).

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States.

Disco music was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity declined in the United States in the late 1970s.

During World War I the dachshunds ' popularity in the United States plummeted because of this association and there are even anecdotes such as a Dachshund being stoned to death on the high street of Berkhamsted, England at this time because of its association with the enemy.

In the United Kingdom, Digimon gained most popularity on ITV1's children's slot CITV from 2001-2004, which aired Adventure, Adventure 02 and a short amount of Tamers airing during after school hours.

In addition to those four countries, floorball is gaining popularity in countries such as Latvia, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.

When it was published in the United States by the University of Chicago in September of that year, it achieved greater popularity than in Britain.

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 popularity of game shows in the United States was closely paralleled around the world ; Reg Grundy Organisation, for instance, would buy the international rights for American game shows and create detailed reproductions in other countries, especially in his native Australia.

In the United Kingdom, game shows have had a more steady and permanent place in the television lineup and never lost popularity in the 1990s as they did in the United States, due in part to the fact that game shows were highly regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the 1980s and those restrictions were lifted in the 1990s, allowing for higher-stakes games to be played.

The Hammond organ was widely used in United States military chapels and post theaters during the Second World War, and returning soldiers ' familiarity with the instrument may have helped contribute to its popularity in the post-war period.

As English readers, pursuing the vogue for sea stories represented by such writers as G. A. Henty, rediscovered Melville's novels, he experienced a modest revival of popularity in England, though not in the United States.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Iranian government enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity amongst the predominantly Sunni " Arab street ," due to its support for Hezbollah and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vehement opposition to the United States and his call that Israel shall vanish.

Just as civic eloquence failed to gain popularity in Britain, in the United States interest faded in the second decade of the 19th century as the " public spheres of heated oratory " disappeared in favor of the private sphere.

In the 1990s, Merlot saw an upswing of popularity in the United States.

With the continual discovery of " new " Medieval and Renaissance fighting manuals, the practice of Historical European Martial Arts and other Western Martial Arts are growing in popularity across the United States and Europe.

In addition, the power and popularity of indigenous communist parties in several Western European states worried the United States.

Such models enjoyed some popularity in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s, for example the Mitsubishi Expo and Nissan Axxess.

is the Japanese name for edible seaweed species of the red alga genus Porphyra, including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, called laver in Wales and other English-speaking countries and Gim in Korean-though the rampant popularity of sushi in the United States means that the United States is often an exception to this, either referring to the product as " nori " as the Japanese do, or simply " seaweed ".

Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

But Truman entered 1952 with his popularity plummeting, according to polls.

Over the rest of Japanese recorded history, sumo's popularity has changed according to the whims of its rulers and the need for its use as a training tool in periods of civil strife.

Cariocas, or Rio de Janeiro natives, are commonly stereotyped as more politically leftist and socially liberal than paulistas, or São Paulo natives, and according to most recent IBGE data the 2nd least Catholic ( 49, 83 %) and most irreligious ( 15, 95 %) people in the country are those from Rio de Janeiro state, soon after those from Roraima ( 46, 78 % and 19, 39 %), respectively — also the popularity of Spiritism ( 3, 37 %) and Afro-Brazilian religions ( 1, 61 %) is the nation's biggest there, and excluding the capital, the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area is the least Catholic and the most Irreligious.

The Glen Island date according to author Gunther Schuller attracted " a record breaking opening night crowd of 1800 ..." With the Glen Island date, the band began a huge rise in popularity.

However, according to al-Shawa, Yassin handled them well and his popularity grew, especially among the more scholarly children.

The Spanish monarchy continues to enjoy wide support and popularity by Spanish citizens since its constitutional restoration in 1978, according to Fernando Villespin, president of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas ( CIS, English: Sociological Research Center ) in 2008.

While he gained popularity and respect for acting according to his own moral principles, some accused him of supporting the radicals ' goals.

Apple Daily's popularity as Hong Kong's second best selling newspaper, according to AC Nielsen, is derived from its concentration on celebrity coverage, brash news style, sensationalist news reportage and its anti-government political positions.

After its introduction into the U. S., the Flat-coat began to quickly gain in popularity as a gundog, and from 1873 when the breed became a " stable type " according to the American Kennel Club until 1915 when it was officially recognised as a breed,

Though Faubus later lost general popularity as a result of his stand against desegregation, at the time he was included among the " Ten Men in the World Most Admired by Americans ", according to Gallup's most admired man and woman poll for 1958.

Its popularity having greatly declined since the 1960s ( when crowds would occasionally reach 50, 000 ), the entire property, according to some, had become an eyesore due to its owners leaving it in a state of disrepair.

Al Arabiya was started in response to Qatar's pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera, but has languished behind in audience popularity surveys, according to reports by University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami.

Embedded in the Acts of Thomas at different places according to differing manuscript traditions is a Syriac hymn, The Hymn of the Pearl, ( or Hymn of the Soul ), a poem that gained a great deal of popularity in mainstream Christian circles.

It thus profited from an exceptional popularity of antisemitism in Romanian society: according to one analysis, Romania was, with the exception of Poland, the most antisemitic country in Eastern Europe.

About a year into her travels with Xena, her scrolls about Xena's exploits begin to gain popularity, apparently helping, according to Ares, turn Xena into a legend.

During the period between 1999 and 2003, sales and popularity of the Panda diminished, mainly because it was " old fashioned ", according to a survey in 2000.

By the middle of his consulship, Caesar ’ s popularity apparently began to wane, whilst Bibulus ’ s popularity was, according to Cicero, on the rise, mostly due to his vitriolic attacks on Caesar.

The popularity of various Web browser products has varied throughout the Web's history, and this has influenced the design of Web sites in such a way that Web sites are sometimes designed to work well only with particular browsers, rather than according to uniform standards by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) or the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ).

Once they leave the House they are greeted by the live crowd, which will boo or cheer according to the popularity of the evicted Housemate.

) The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter.

The series gained popularity on the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System for its tight action-platform gameplay, catchy music and, according to G4's X-Play, for being the first console game to have the story presented in cinematic cutscenes.

The Bearded Collie ranks 104 out of 155 breeds in popularity in the United States, according to the American Kennel Club's yearly breed ranking.