Sentence examples for an open constituency from inspiring English sources

In 1774 Burke was elected a member of Parliament for Bristol, then the second city of the kingdom and an open constituency requiring a genuine election contest.

A legitimate question, you might say, if it's true the 73-year-old Labour member for Middlesbrough hasn't held an open constituency surgery for 14 years, and allegedly won't return phone calls - Bell says he meets regularly with his constituents by appointment and has no record of the alleged calls.

The problem for the Opposition in 1734 was that there were few such populous, open constituencies but very many rotten borough seats such as Malmesbury.

Although public opinion aided Pitt in the open constituencies, it is nevertheless misleading to say that he was "the choice of the people"; he was the dispenser of royal patronage.

The envelope was kept in a safe at Loughner's home alongside a letter from Giffords in 2007 thanking him for attending an earlier open air constituency meeting of the kind he attacked on Saturday.

Senior Conservatives warned Kirkbride that she must defend herself at an open meeting in her constituency after she admitted employing her sister to work part-time for her, even though she works more than 100 miles from her Bromsgrove constituency.

But they are throwing the kitchen sink at winning Rochester - spending tens of thousands of pounds paying for an open primary in which every voter in the constituency is invited to help choose their by-election candidate.

Whether Europe can reach across constituencies to create consensus, however, has been an open, and suddenly pressing, question.

Mr Cameron says the contest is a "two horse race" between his party and UKIP - and has visited the constituency five times to support the Conservatives' candidate Kelly Tolhurst, a local councillor selected for the party in an open postal primary.

While many of these incentives made little sense, the photo opportunity for a politician to open a factory in a marginal constituency proved a powerful driver.

The festival grew out of the post-hippie jam-band scene, which has traditionally been an open-minded, loyal and not terribly fickle audience: an ideal constituency for an annual festival that relies on repeat customers.