Shortly before the election, he announced a 75% reduction in the price of fertilizer; this was considered a populist move intended to buttress his rural support.

Nik Stanojevic, an analyst at Brewin Dolphin, said the 1p a litre cut in petrol prices was a populist move that would bring little benefit to consumers.

Even Mr. Fyodorov has made a lurching populist move by restricting the operation of some foreign banks.

British cinema used to make populist moves and then the sixities came along and brought in social realism and from then in seemed to stop.

The Lincoln Center Theater alliance can also be seen as a populist move, and a riskier one.

Politicians would be tempted to unbalance the budget and raise public spending by borrowing money, citing Keynesian doctrine to provide intellectual justification for a populist move.

Such populist moves may backfire, however.

There is a populist move afoot to dig up the Colossus's grave in the Matopo Hills and throw his bones into a river.

Critics said that the loan waiver was simply a populist move by the UPA Government in view of the forthcoming elections.

Such as his populist move to say he wouldn't have voted for Iraq if he was in government at the time, I just don't believe that.