Too much detail can build counter-constituencies because it's bound to irritate someone.
Even when the elections were held, critics assert, the constituencies were gerrymandered to counter the influence of his land's Palestinian majority -- centered in the capital, Amman -- and to strengthen his tribal followers.
Gingrich thinks about ideas strategically, as a way of countering his opponents or wooing new constituencies, and this is something Republicans have failed to do almost from the day he left Capitol Hill.
Conservative Texas, for example, is gaining four seats in the reapportionment set in train by last year's census; liberal New York is losing two.But Democrats counter that the growth the Republicans are celebrating comes from natural Democratic constituencies.
In larger constituencies where there is an MP to make the counter-case, the story might be different, it is said.
He cannot count on enthusiastic support from the GOP's traditional religious and economic constituencies, and his appeal to upscale independents is more than countered by Obama's.
In spite of widespread rumours that Gordon Brown has been abducted by aliens (or absent from London, which amounts to the same thing), or perhaps to counter them, I have been invited to spend a day in his constituency, shadowing him.
Republicans, especially Dr. Frist, have been harshly criticized by conservative activists for not doing enough to counter the Democrats' filibusters, and the marathon debate was in part aimed to satisfy that constituency, as well.
The remaining 56 MSPs, called "List MSPs", are elected by an additional members system, which seeks to make the overall results more proportional, countering any distortions in the constituency results.
Constituencies were comprehensively gerrymandered.
Officers and directors counter that the critics are trying to keep the Athenaeum to themselves by blocking a sale that would open the doors to a broader constituency.
