Sentence examples for country constituency from inspiring English sources

He unsuccessfully contested a byelection in the Black Country constituency of Wednesbury in 1957 before narrowly winning the normally Labour seat of Nottingham West in the "never had it so good" Tory landslide election of 1959.

At Tulle, Hollande's former country constituency, the Socialist mayor Bernard Combes, a friend and adviser to the president, was re-elected with, reportedly, just over 65% of the vote.

From Labour MP David Winnick: Having witnessed the misery and the devastation that occurred in my Black Country constituency during the Tory years, as elsewhere, all the indications you have given today is that there's going to be a repeat – and that the people who will suffer the most will be those on the lowest incomes.

In the town and country constituency of the Vale of Glamorgan though, exploring for underground gas and the fear of fracking have galvanised some areas around Cowbridge.

While a chairperson was elected for GAVI's Governing Board, all participating actors agreed on an equal representation of board members and diversity of opinion [ 64], and also, that no country, constituency or organization should have control of the board.

They say that in a trial run involving 10,000 people in five West Country constituencies two months ago, about half of the people telephoned took part in some, if not all, of the call.

Sir Edward Phelips died in 1614, leaving his family wealthy and landed; he was succeeded by his son, Sir Robert Phelips, who represented various West Country constituencies in Parliament.

"The interests of its rich-country constituencies and its poor-country borrowers are diverging," Pritchett says.

In part this is because in many countries constituencies are vast and parties run a "closed list" system in which their leaders, not voters, choose who gets seats.

On the one hand are the technocratic views of those who see the near-automatic membership rules of the monetary union as a means of facilitating economic reforms that, although in theory could be accomplished in isolation by individual countries, in practice would never prevail with home-country constituencies.

Although the country's constituency for democracy is vast and growing, the regime has a constituency, too, and it is passionately loyal and heavily armed.