Sentence examples for constituencies open from inspiring English sources

Six of its 10 members in the 60-member legislature represent geographic constituencies open to voting by the general public, which has turned out huge demonstrations against the bill.

The constitution stipulates that 475 members of the 500-seat parliament are needed to convene parliament and the protesters have already prevented candidates from registering in 28 out of the 375 constituencies open to direct elections.Thailand's political crisis, in other words, will only grow.

And although the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile stretch of road that slices through Meadows' constituency, remains open, more than 80% of park service staff have been furloughed.

At the time May made clear her support for moves in her own Maidenhead constituency to open a similar satellite grammar school.

He drove up the M1 towards his Sheffield constituency and opened his ministerial red box.

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.

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.

He also included a proposal not likely to go down with a conservative constituency -- "to open our culture to the world" by granting the vote in local elections to immigrants.

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 reality is we've been a northern punchbag in this parliament and when people in my constituency won't open a shop because the business rates are three times more than the rent then you know ministers are not on the side of enterprise.