My Peers, the Hortators are a private organization, whose sole power comes from the popular esteem and respect they have earned.

In terms of popular esteem however, the balance tilted the other way.

I for one will be pleased if Foinaven is over 3,000 feet and therefore rises in popular esteem.

His criticism of John Milton, on the other hand, had no great impact on Milton's popular esteem.

With growth in popular esteem came increase in material wealth, leading to luxury and worldliness.

As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

Nor did Labour suffer to the slightest extent in popular esteem from its link with the trade unions.

But there was a subtle new flavor to the popular esteem that secretly excited and gratified Dorothée.

A victory in France could set the king up in popular esteem, I suppose, at least for a time.

The liberation of Muslim slaves was a state affair and elevated the popular esteem of the sovereign government.