Sentence examples for disadvantaged constituencies from inspiring English sources

Kotkin makes the case that the celebrated Obama coalition uniting well-educated, often upscale liberals, with such struggling, often disadvantaged constituencies as single women, racial and ethnic minorities, and the young is fragile at best: The class issue so cleverly exploited by the president in the election could prove the potential Achilles heel of today's gentry progressivism.

President Obama's capitulation on tax cuts for the very wealthy and his proposed cuts in anti-poverty programs combined with the reluctance of progressive nonprofits to fight for their disadvantaged constituencies have placed low income and working class people in an increasingly tenuous position.

Prof Ron Johnston of Bristol University, who has advised the government about boundary changes, said the existing structure of constituencies had disadvantaged the Tories.

Among them, a number associated with the Conservative party are convinced that they have been disadvantaged at recent general elections because of variations in constituency size that favour Labour.

He began working for Blunkett in 1993 and was elected to Sheffield City Council in 2000, becoming a passionate campaigner for the city's disadvantaged, living in one of the most deprived areas of the constituency he came to represent.

If pruning and evening out the constituencies leads to more Tories, then it is clear they were disadvantaged to start with.

In the weeks running up to polling day, the Lib Dems were consistently critical of constituency polling from Lord Ashcroft, which did not mention the name of the local candidate in its questioning, something the Lib Dems said disadvantaged them.

Americans call such schools "disadvantaged".

I realized I was disadvantaged.

It was biomechanically disadvantaged.

You are disadvantaged already.