How To Use Constituency In A Sentence

Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there? PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
He was not going to conduct his presidency through interest groups, by balancing one constituency against another and engaging in the customary horse-trading on the Hill. The Good Fight
Although Kilmarnock is an industrial area, there is a large rural area in the constituency in the heart of Ayrshire.
Many members of the Dail Eireann spend an excessive amount of time and effort in the constituency, but this has been more related to Irish political culture than the electoral system.
Meanwhile there is increasing acceptance that the task of representing a constituency can fairly be considered to constitute a full-time job.

But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
He wasn't terribly popular in our part of the constituency and rumours, some of which have hardened into allegations, abounded.
But pro-choicers have a built-in constituency too: the millions and millions of women who have had abortions.
He should listen to the people of this constituency and he has got a lot to listen to. Times, Sunday Times
But on thinking it over, he decided it seemed less than hopeful to represent a constituency that deserved to be slimmed out of existence. POLITICAL SUICIDE
As Steve notes, giving all Iraqis a very concrete, material stake in the new regime would go a long way to securing a political constituency for the new order.
After all, Alex Salmond is both a MSP and an MP and so there is no reason why Lamont should he win the Westminster seat, it's a fair assumption that the seat will be Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirkshire due to the fact he's faught it twice, then he will be covering virtually the same constituency for both Parliaments, much like Alex Salmond, no? The Fickle Mind of a Tory
Dole, with farmers and agribusiness at the core of his Kansas constituency, has strongly supported tax credits for ethanol.
The government now is looking at unprecedented public-sector layoffs and cuts in civil-service perks, steps that could reshape Greek political culture by upending decades of cozy ties between the ruling Socialist party and a core constituency. Greek Officials Scramble to Find More Cuts
In part it derived from the constituency he represented. THE GUARDSMEN
JACKSON: Well, the DLC appoints by invitation -- invites its constituency, and labor is not in the DNC -- DLC, and this -- 40 percent of this convention -- only a smathering of blacks in the DLC or Hispanics in the DLC, and so it's in some sense a privatized version of Democrats that they sought to suburbanize the party. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Democratic Party's Liberal Wing Gets a Chance to Speak Out - August 15, 2000
Chomsky quotes him describing the Vietcong as " a powerful force which cannot be dislodged from its constituency so long as the constituency continues to exist ".
A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote.
‘I know sailors all over the country and I believe they can be mobilized as a constituency for change in ocean policy,’ says Rockefeller, himself a former yacht club commodore.
Of course, the most important constituency to which the league appealed was the Irish-speaking population concentrated on the western and southern seaboards of the island.
But Purnell's target constituency is now on what I call the sane left. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Beknazarov represented the remote constituency of Aksy district, a poor region in the south of the country.
In a rural constituency it can be some small town; in the ten constituencies of Dublin, a suburb.
Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts.
As with all other candidates, his nomination papers need the signatures of ten electors in the constituency.
A Co Londonderry politician has described the damage caused by a fire in his constituency this morning as "saddening". Northern Ireland Local News
The Tory college could consist of MPs, grassroots grandees consisting of constituency chairs and council leaders, and finally members.
Where has it come from - the separatism and exclusivism that is altogether too common in parts of the Reformed constituency?
It was claimed that he had been using his time as convenor for constituency work. Times, Sunday Times
The election in that constituency has been abandoned and a by-election will be held in a month's time.
And my constituency were the disengaged voters, the disengaged, those who had really given up on our political system.
The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party.
I wonder if the fact that we have become a political constituency and force has caused us to lose sight of the main thing. Christianity Today
Seats are divided between the parties according to the proportion of the vote they win in the constituency.
In a segmented radio market, there are indications that there is a substantial country music constituency in Dublin.
This means having one-to-one conversations and constituency meetings, and making alliances with local people on local issues. Times, Sunday Times
The bogey of community in peril was falsely raised to keep the constituency within the preserve of male candidates.
The soft life they lead nowadays as constituency members is just unbelievable compared with the good old days.
There were demands for the mandatory reselection of MPs, and for the choice of the party leader to be taken from MPs and lodged in an electoral college, which would include the trade unions and the constituency parties.
The business constituency, on the other hand, views much regulation as an unjustifiable intrusion by the State.
Unemployment is high in her constituency.
He will have to broaden that appeal beyond his core constituency of white male voters to prevail. Times, Sunday Times
With speculation gowing on Speaker Michael Martin's future, pundits have started to ponder the prospects of an early by-election in his Glasgow North East (Springburn) constituency Archive 2009-05-01
The DUP, while representing the farming constituency, also lays claim to a sizeable chunk of support from working-class Protestants.
The MP informed his constituency association of his impending departure at the weekend. Times, Sunday Times
No doubt another All Women Shortlist's stooshie will be on the cards for the Labour party in this constituency which will only assist the SNP's chances further. Archive 2009-03-01
To get elected in her constituency, she promised jobs to everyone.
Unless leaders are accountable to a constituency, there can be no true democracy.
It is understood that the constituency party will remain suspended until a review next spring. Times, Sunday Times
She is at our constituency house in Oxfordshire and is stranded because of the solar-powered car. Times, Sunday Times
Each has a powerful constituency ready to defeat any politician who dares to attack the present system.
To judge by the reaction Galloway gets walking the streets of his new constituency, King is not sorely missed.
The PR alliance faces a similar uphill battle in Bukit Selambau, a state constituency in Kedah, which is barely 45 minutes by road from Bukit Gantang. BERSIH
He looked to some like a carpetbagger who knew nothing about the constituency - and he was not a Catholic, as many in the local party are.
The documents will show how much public money is being funnelled to local parties and unions under leasing arrangements for constituency offices. Times, Sunday Times
Then in a sugary way he said he had no time for us and attends only to the people in his constituency.
MPs should use the extra time to devote themselves to becoming better constituency representatives. Times, Sunday Times
The committee would welcome input from booksellers within its constituency.
McCain, like Bush before him, is deeply imbricated in the radical religious constituency that buttresses his party. Shaun Jacob Halper: McCain's Reverends Right: His Faustian Bargain with Radical Christianity
The very construction of his native constituency that permeates "the human form divine" involve those agitative and sleepless precipitants that ever stir, stimulate, and woo him on to investigate, to weigh, and measure principles of the universe that draw his chariot from the individual center to the impalpable periphery. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election.
In communities across the province, people will visit constituency offices to stage sit-ins or protest outside.
Her full-throated though occasionally overfrank support from Mr. Rendell helps her in his core constituency, the Philadelphia suburbs, which were favorably impressed by his record as Philadelphia mayor from 1991 to 1999 (the city, half black, will presumably vote for Barack Obama). The Keystone Primary Stakes
At 46.7 its regional list vote percentage was 4.8 points lower than its constituency vote percentage at 51.5.
I lived for three years, in Coventry and was a council candidate during that time in Bob Ainsworth's constituency. Bob Ainsworth - A sign of desperation by the government
A natural psephologist, she memorises every constituency, candidate and outcome obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
So, the state only funds very unambitious work - very reasonably they feel that to fund stuff that their constituency thinks is a pipedream would jeopardize re-election.
Forcing that constituency or group to absorb the costs of failed initiatives is a slow form of organizational suicide.
In almost identical terms, constituency parties in the province and Britain have stepped up the pressure for a decisive Government move.
The coati turned violently on his small constituency, all that remained of his once powerful band. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
Offices required popular election, and tribunes represented a plebeian constituency.
The initiation and implementation of economic development projects also provides government with opportunities to gain political support from a diverse constituency.
The figures under the heading IEP relate to constituency office IT costs, stationery and incidental expenses.
As the social composition of this secular constituency has undergone a metamorphosis, so too has its demographics. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.
The constituency I live in is a safe Labour seat.
The money had gone to his constituency party and not the national headquarters, he said. Times, Sunday Times
The Government has also lavished funds on the constituency over the past year and sent a record number of ministers to attend events there.
His deselection caused anger in the parliamentary party as well as in his constituency, but MPs are unwilling to rock the boat so close to the election.
In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward. Times, Sunday Times
Friends of the 63-year-old Speaker believe he wants to pass on the constituency to his son, who holds the matching seat in the Scottish Parliament.
Can the most powerful economic and political constituency swallow the relegation of Milan's airport? Times, Sunday Times
The campaign strategy of the Tories, when not completely off the wall, shows a neurotic obsession with retaining the votes of a certain elderly constituency who would vote for anything with a blue rosette.
They neither need nor want to seek sympathy from the ‘majority’ of voters in the constituency.
Very many years ago I was delegated the job by my then ward of going through the pile of CVs submitted for nomination to our then Euro constituency.
As Maharaj was speaking at length about the plight of residents of Bunsee Trace, located significantly in the Siparia constituency, who had a 'cowshed' for a community centre, he raised a huge photograph of the centre. TrinidadExpress Today's News
He demanded that Eribo should go and find out what constituency allowance of lawmakers is all about before making what he described as unguarded comments. Thisday Online
He owns the 250-bedroom Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney, the heart of the minister's constituency.
And as for not being local to the constituency...well, one way or another, he's been involved in things Glasgwegian and close to Glasgow for most of his life, and has solid roots in the region: it's not as if he is a stereotypical out-of-touch party insider "airlifted" into a place in which he is unaware or uninterested or uninvolved with the concerns of the constituents Be Kerr-ful what you wish for
Seriously, if the opposition could only open their eyes they would see a large and financially solvent constituency looking for a home.
Former interns said that he had little interest in constituency work. Times, Sunday Times
Five contenders for the rural constituency were asked their opinion on a decision to shelve flood defence plans for Pickering.
The Vale of Glamorgan member said he came under fierce pressure from the constituency party and the Whips' office.
Communities such as Bensalem and nearby Bristol are home to some of the white, working-class voters who have become a crucial constituency for both candidates but largely have gravitated to Sen. Clinton. Both Democrats Find
He will disenchant his base constituency, including me. Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake'
In Cameron on Cameron, published in 2008, another style professional, Dylan Jones, thought it worth itemising, in the constituency kitchen, a Dualit toaster, Maytag fridge-freezer, Bodum cafetiere, a Daily Mail "bathed in sunlight" and Jamie Oliver cookery books. What's in worse taste – Cameron's photographer or Blair's house?
Frankly, ministers don't like being told what they can and can't do with English education spending by an MP who sits for a Scottish constituency.
On our behalf, they spoke to 400 voters across the constituency.
In the last general election she held the constituency on a 58 % turnout with the Conservatives in second place. Times, Sunday Times
The initiation and implementation of economic development projects also provides government with opportunities to gain political support from a diverse constituency.
” There might also be a certain froideur in the air when Mr Baker next bumps into Chris Huhne, his successor as the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman.” said Nigel Morris “Mr Huhne spent £3,284 on car mileage - but only £176 on train tickets, even though his Hampshire constituency is easily reached by rail.” Norman Baker Cheats On Campaign Funding
But the matriarch is the glue that binds the entire family together and the inheritor of the late Jindals political constituency. India's Savitri Jindal
Wives are employed, as are the sons and daughters of colleagues, occasionally doing party political campaigning work when they are paid only to do constituency and parliamentary work.
He continues to express a long-felt pride and affection for his constituency and voters.
The constituency fell to Labour at the last election, after ten years of Conservative rule.
Mr Jones has a natural constituency among steel workers.
He remains devastated by the defeat, after 18 years representing the constituency.
If the mayor has limited clout on the council, it's partly because he has little constituency support in the city.
The constituency are voting tomorrow.
These astute restaurateurs have tailored their products to an undiscerning constituency that sees ‘curry’ as something you go for after too many pints.
The party needs to appeal to a broader constituency.
Her wild, rash and unprecedented bombast was a shameful act of utter disrespect, not only to her constituency but also to the nation.
Mulayam set the condition in his Lok Sabha constituency of Mainpuri amid surging confidence in his camp that the SP with at least 20 Lok Sabha seats would be in a position to extract its pound of flesh from aspirants to the Delhi gaddi. India News Digest: JLR's Talks With UK Govt Close to collapse
It's clear Howard is seeking to woo the Catholic constituency this year.
Constituency body of voters represented by an elected legislator or official.
Half of the 400 national representatives would be elected on a constituency basis and the other half by proportional representation.
The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party.
Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity. THE GUARDSMEN
He was deselected by his local constituency party because he didn't support the Prime Minister.
The constituency I live in is a safe Labour seat.
Not only did he not renounce and deject -- er ... denounce and reject -- the comments from his now "good friend" GW Bush and Rove and the rest of that ilk, he didn't apologize then for his vote and lack of support for the MLK holiday and any number of other bills and issues that would matter to the African-Americans in his constituency. McCain: I Was Wrong To Vote Against Making MLK Day A Holiday
In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward. Times, Sunday Times
Other party officials say that on the ground there is immense hostility to him and he has few supporters left in the constituency.
That was a devastating blow from which the constituency is struggling to recover.
Next time around this constituency, with its now rapidly changing demographics, will no longer be a safe unionist seat.
Instead, she is fighting the marginal constituency of Stourbridge. Times, Sunday Times
Careers are about personal advancement when the purpose of an MP is to represent his constituency and the nation at large. Times, Sunday Times
He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered.
Even for an expert in double-think - Jowell recently joined a campaign to keep open a post office in her constituency, despite having voted in the Commons to shut it - this is a logical breakdown too far. Archive 2008-04-01
In coordinate dependency, however, the order of clausal constituency seems to be intimately related to that of affixation.
Donald's love of sport was not some kind of affectation designed to bring him street credibility in constituency walkabouts.
More than 80 percent of the voters in the constituency are landless peasants or poor farmers.
There are some people in that music scene who are defining a political constituency and using it as a voting bloc to effect social change.
In future, the hon. Gentleman should acknowledge the dramatic reduction in unemployment in his constituency during this Parliament.
‘Oh well, you know how busy she is, being a minister’, simpers her constituency apparatchik when you try to contact her.
That will have a fantastic effect on local housing and the lack of facilities in my constituency.
There are 15 declared candidates in the Mayo constituency for the General Election and I have met every one of them over the years.
A private care home in my constituency accepted an elderly lady for respite care.
Mr Baxter has travelled thousands of miles criss-crossing the constituency.
Personally, and you can call me naively optimistic, but I'm disappointed he made it back into his "pigsty" of a constituency. The grannie's on...
Growing up in a PNM-loyal family, I have been a supporter all my life in the Couva North constituency.
Unemployment is high in her constituency.
They are running two candidates again, one from each end of the constituency.
A student radical and a trade union official before he became a TD, Rabbitte has represented the constituency of Dublin South West since he was first elected in 1989.
Indeed, it was the pressure from this large and disadvantaged constituency that helped to establish vernacular literary education.
There is a strong constituency of support for his proposal.
All I ask now is that I be allowed to continue my constituency and Parliamentary work and responsibilities as a backbencher.
That was a devastating blow from which the constituency is struggling to recover.
The party also says he is available to talk to the media at regular intervals during his constituency tours around the country.
Kerry let me remind you is the former constituency of Dick Spring, former leader of the Labour Party and the current constituency of former IRA commander Martin Ferris TD, a man who was once caught red-handed shipping a cargo Libyan supplied arms and the home of gombeen Jackie Healey-Rae, a man who would make a St. Patrick's Day leprauchan blush with shame at his shameless stage Oirish paddywackery. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
He will have to broaden that appeal beyond his core constituency of white male voters to prevail. Times, Sunday Times
In France, farmers are a powerful political constituency.
If Smith is such a great constituency Member of Parliament, why did he not get off his chuff and write to the Minister about the issues of which he speaks?
A 33-year-old widow with four children in my constituency lost free school meals and housing benefit - a total loss of ￡25.
Israel justifies this on national security, many people do not accept that in the rest of the world but there is a fiar constituency in NY which does. Matthew Yglesias » Debate Wrap-Up
Among the eight contestants in the constituency, five are backed by parties and most are political heavyweights.
She now has to explain her housing claims to her constituency party. Times, Sunday Times
As the 1998 midterm elections approached, Republican lawmakers had no desire to alienate the conservatives who formed their core constituency.
He was born to serve and served his primary constituency diligently.
Their analysis illustrates a dramatic increase in Conservative party spending at the constituency level in francophone ridings (Carty and Eagles).
The conference approved a series of structural reforms giving constituency parties and the unions more power over the appointment of the leader.
It's not unreasonable for a sharp-eyed psephologist to have foreseen that Andrew Wilson had pushed that constituency as hard as the SNP could have hoped for in 2003 so the swing was always going to go in Labour's direction in 2007, despite Jamie Hepburn's best efforts. Can you predict elections?
In those days, and indicating very starkly that they had and have absolutely nothing in common with New Labour (who were doing the deselecting at the time), those with the gravest reservations about mandatory reselection feared that it would give too much power to vocal cliques within Constituency Labour Parties, and argued that a CLP should be at least one twelfth the size of the Labour vote at the preceding General Election. John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
I am currently trying to assist a company in my constituency with export credit guarantees.
I worked in the constituency office of John McDonnell as a volunteer and was there when the original prototype ansafone message you are referring to was recorded, just saying to ring between eleven and one on weekdays with queries and for appointments and we left the ansafone on that line the rest of the time. Post Taken Down
People have talked dismissively of gimmicks but these gimmicks are going down well in my constituency.
Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity. THE GUARDSMEN
When it rains, it will wet a wide, diverse constituency.
The Minister, who represents the Hacketstown constituency, expressed his delight that the project was now completed.
Hustlers who bonnet a man and beat his breath out of him and empty his pockets before he knows what is the matter with him, -- the Burglars, with their "jimmies" in their pockets, -- the fighting robbers, with their brass knuckles, -- the whole set in a vast thief-constituency, thick as rats in sewers, -- these were the disputants whom the emissaries of the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Both parties are courting this constituency like a nerd trying to con a cheerleader into attending the senior prom.
He admitted the election in his constituency was likely to be a close-run thing as the seat was traditionally hard fought.
Because he was sending messages to a particular constituency, not actually leading. Times, Sunday Times
Conservative MPs, the constituency associations, and the party bureaucracy at Central Office are now united in a single organization.
Let x be the percentage of a region's constituency seats won by any one party.
My husband is planning to start a factory for manufacturing green environment friendly condoms in the Minister's constituency.
The constituency fell to Labour at the last election, after ten years of Conservative rule.
The constituency has 873,000 voters who also seem to be divided in their loyalties.
This connection provided the moral justification for foreign adventurism as well as a binding identity that linked it to a monarchist constituency at home.
Meanwhile there is increasing acceptance that the task of representing a constituency can fairly be considered to constitute a full-time job.
They rather spend more time on their personal business and respective interests in the constituency from where they hail.
The high proportion of young voters among the rejectionists was particularly notable: it looks as if the EU is in danger of losing its future constituency.
He promised to work to the best of his ability for all of the people of the constituency.
But he still lost, to an independent candidate from a nonfeudal middle-class background named Amir Varan, who received 57,000 votes and ousted the Owaisi family from control of the constituency for the first time since they entered politics in the elections of 1975. A New Deal in Pakistan
Michael Booth: So does his Blackburn with Darwen constituency - but I doubt we'll get it until he takes his seat in the Lords to be replaced with another Labour placeman. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
That's not a small constituency of "actives"; one that continues to grow. Dennis Santiago: For Biggest Banks, Deposits Remain Sticky
I assure the House that money is not the problem for the old people's homes in my constituency.
The new constituency would stretch from Port Isaac bay in Cornwall to Bideford bar, a sandbank in the Taw-Torridge estuary in Devon. Cornwall-Devon boundary may change
In his constituency, power has passed to the party caucus which chose him, supports him and could replace him. Times, Sunday Times
The days of Trots taking over constituency Labour parties did Labour no good.
Within four years, he was elected as the Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside, and continues to represent this constituency today.
Mr Baxter has travelled thousands of miles criss-crossing the constituency.
An official may also exploit press coverage in order to establish his agency's credibility with constituency groups, or to bring pressure to bear on other government agencies.
She thanked voters in the Bolton West constituency for the support they had shown for her campaign.
Economic necessity or opportunity often forces them to make decisions that favor a particular constituency over its counterparts.
Astonishingly the Commission failed to realize that its proposed ratio of one additional member for three constituency members would be inadequate.
Bringing farmers back onto the dole shrinks the constituency for limited government and tax cuts.
Staff travel is limited to official business and the Commons bankrolls some free travel between the constituency and London for family members.
His constituency is commutable and on rare occasions he could take a hotel in London like ordinary folk who work late in the capital do. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
He pledged that the cash obtained from five sublets of his constituency offices when he was a Westminster MP would be paid back if the Commons instructed him.

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