Among the people

Usage examples of popularly.

As the franchise became exercisable by greater numbers of people, the belief became widespread that Senators ought to be popularly elected in the same manner as Representatives.

It is popularly ascribed to the over-cultivation of the race, as plants and animals highly civilised--that is, greatly modified and bred to an artificial excellence by human agency--are certainly delicate, unprolific, and especially difficult to rear.

Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.

From all the information I have received, I am now satisfied that a very large and comprehensive plan of attack had been arranged by the party which is popularly known as the Sweeny-Roberts section of the Fenian Brotherhood.

This deadline is popularly known as the safe-harbor provision of federal lawa provision that came to play a pivotal role in the 2000 presidential election.

Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.

But in truth all general terms are popularly and classically used in somewhat different senses.

Lord Wharncliffe addressed the house against the measure, defending nomination, not because it was made by peers or other influential individuals, but because its effect in the house of commons was that it acted as a check on those places which were popularly represented.

The Pharaoh through the narrow tunnels of the Great Pyramid of Giza Khufu, more popularly known as Cheops, was responsible down to the bottom chamber and, for a year prior, complex for the building of the greatest pyramid, farthest to the diplomatic effort to be granted permission to bring the northeast.

New York is still popularly supposed to be in the control of the Irish, but March noticed in these East Side travels of his what must strike every observer returning to the city after a prolonged absence: the numerical subordination of the dominant race.

When a number of people at a theatre watch an actor, the changes in their several perspectives are so similar and so closely correlated that all are popularly regarded as identical with each other and with the changes of the actor himself.

Consequently her husband believed he had reason to fear the Duke of Lan­caster, who was popularly credited with a wicked uncle’s designs on the crown.

The most famous Curium is the "Sacra Congregatio Romanae et universalis Inquisitionis seu sancti officii," popularly known as the Inquisition, which was founded in 1227 by Pope Joan VI.

There were rocks with heliotrope pouring over them and flowers peeping behind them, and great azaleas all in triumphant bloom, and ropes of flowering creepers coming down from trees, and oleanders, and a plant named popularly Joy of the South, and small paths went along it edged with shells brought from the far sea.

A form of wave motion popularly known as clear-air turbulence occasionally enlivens airplane flights.