Sentence examples for a major base of support from inspiring English sources

It remains plausible that the G.O.P. nominee in 2016 could rely on religious conservatives as a major base of support in the primaries while also appealing to other groups within the party — a model that worked successfully for George W. Bush in 2000.

During the American Civil War, Indianapolis, the state capital of Indiana, was a major base of support for the Union.

Pro-government "redshirts" offered on Wednesday to provide offices and security personnel to the embattled government should it wish to move up to Chiang Mai, Yingluck's hometown and a major base of voter support.

"Islamists use the M.U.I. as a major base of operations, coordinating support for the Islamist agenda," said Holland Taylor, founder of LibForAll Foundation, an American and Indonesian nongovernmental group that promotes religious pluralism.

The sport's TV ratings and attendance have dropped as its popularity has reached a plateau, coincidentally much like the Republican Party's, with its major base of support in the nation's southeast and those fans being overwhelming male and White.

He said that group, which is supported by Iran, uses the villages of the south as a major base of operations, which deeply concerns Israel.

Sanchez, who has served in Congress for two decades, was relying on Latinos to be one of her major bases of support.

The action follows an order by the Pentagon on Friday to pull out the families of defense personnel and other employees at a major base here that supports the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet, which operates in the Persian Gulf.

Does Qaddafi have a stronger base of support in Tripoli?

He also had a natural base of support.

I've got a huge base of support in Silicon Valley for a lot of reasons.