But at the summit meeting, both leaders will be under pressure from wary domestic constituencies and will need to be seen as bargaining from a position of strength.
She needs to defend herself at a public meeting in her constituency and she needs to do that soon".
Every public official is constantly wrestling with the tension between the demands of his immediate constituency and the needs of the larger society.
She has to carefully balance her hard line which appeals to her domestic constituency and the need to maintain consensus among her EU partners as the French, Italian and even the European Central Bank lean toward greater flexibility.
In these first years of heightened change, the most important duty of admission leadership will be to educate college constituencies that the look, feel and needs of new admission classes will likely be remarkably different inside and outside the classroom.
Many tribes circulate within this increasingly crowded global ecosystem — filmmakers, critics, buyers, sellers, programmers, sponsors and, of course, the paying public — and each is a constituency with its own interests and needs.
Despite her public image as a "rogue" conservative, in fact, she's clearly tried to position herself as a party power-broker – someone who can "anoint" individual candidates, build bridges between warring and disaffected party constituencies, and perhaps, should the need arise, help ensure the victory of one presidential candidate over another.
Some of this was almost inevitable: Mr Osborne is a very political chancellor, with a good nose for which constituencies he needs to shore up, and how to press their buttons.
The focus will be on a range of constituencies that need and deserve better relationships with law enforcement, including Latino communities; victims of crime, including domestic violence and sexual assault; youth; and the LGBQTI community.
"The idea is that as a public servant, as a public agency, we have a constituency, and they have needs.
