Sentence examples for chunk of support from inspiring English sources

OK, I am going to stick my neck out and say Clegg made a serious strategic error by indicating he would prefer a coalition with Cameron to one with Brown, and kissed goodbye to a big chunk of support he might have won from disgruntled Labour supporters.

And that was a significant chunk of support that basically wanted to be associated with any party that didn't have the remotest sniff of power.

He certainly needs one: after losing a big chunk of support to Labour which will not come back, the Liberal Democrats will need to appeal to "soft" Tory voters in 2015.

In fact, if the book's second, third and fourth chapters were distributed in isolation (no pun intended) to Democratic primary voters, Buchanan might find himself with a surprising chunk of support.

Two recent national surveys of voters show Gary Johnson, a libertarian who is far from a household name, is carving out a sizeable chunk of support from both of the major party candidates who are hovering in a statistical tie in many recent polls.

And Hoyer's opponent for the post of Whip, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C ., still has a substantial chunk of support -- enough to keep the contest in D-S.C .

The very act of entering into a coalition with one of the larger parties was always going to lose us a big chunk of our support.

This multidisciplinary festival lost a sizable chunk of financial support from the city this year, so the sixth annual event was cut to two weeks from three.

And, partly because Britain gets a budget rebate, no British government has ever backed the sensible idea put forward by Italy and others that a chunk of CAP support should be switched from Brussels to national governments.

I guess I'm having trouble drawing a line between the liberal movements of the nineteen-sixties and today's pro-life movement because its public face is mostly white and a good chunk of its support base — white ethnics and white southerners, especially those who moved out to the suburbs — are not exactly the people we'd generally, now or then, associate with the civil-rights movement.

While liberal Democrats make up a big chunk of Sanders' support, many other backers are independents.