Sentence examples for basic constituencies from inspiring English sources

To provide some practical suggestions, it is necessary to break down the settlers' movement into its three basic constituencies.

Marketing the surf look beyond its basic constituency is tricky.

Labour needs to get back to catering for its basic constituency, the poor and the deprived.

"Our basic constituency is the rural poor," insisted Mohammad Salim, a veteran member of Parliament in the party.

As prime minister he improved Turkey's ties with its NATO allies and instituted development programs for his basic constituency, the Turkish peasantry.

"I think there is a basic constituency that Lucas established for these films, and even though they spend much less on advertising than other big tent-pole pictures, they nonetheless have this constituency that they can glom onto and ride," said Peter Bart, editor of Variety.

"He went into 1980 with a tremendous base — it was the beginning of the 'religious right.' He had the basic Republican constituency of economic conservatives and he picked up a bunch of disaffected Democrats".

Constituency, basic electoral unit into which eligible electors are organized to elect representatives to a legislative or other public body.

If politicians show a lack of basic knowledge of the constituency they're trying to win over while on the campaign trail, it could cost them dearly.

Mr. Blumenauer may be out of step with his natural political constituencies, but his basic argument here places him squarely in a tradition of mainstream Democratic thinkers.

More than 6 in 10 of Maryland's uninsured are low- or middle-income people who are not eligible for Medicaid and other government health plans, and officials say these people are a natural constituency for a basic insurance policy.