Sentence examples for ethnic constituencies from inspiring English sources

Legislative representatives were elected from Indian and Fijian rolls (called communal rolls) and from cross-voting rolls, which presented candidates as members of their ethnic constituencies who were then elected by voters of all ethnicities.

In many ways, the Hispanic respondents questioned over the course of two weeks mirrored traditional Democratic ethnic constituencies.

Many political parties seek to represent specific ethnic constituencies but there is nothing in the constitution to say that political parties have to be ethnically based.

Metropolitan Jonah pursued a unified Orthodox identity among the various ethnic constituencies (e.g., Romanian, Albanian, and Russian) within the OCA and in other North American Orthodox denominations.

That calculation has a second half -- that the special interests, from ethnic constituencies to labor groups, seem not only to appreciate the pandering, but also to demand it.

By going overboard to achieve a "balanced jury," he acted more like a politician with a mandate to satisfy ethnic constituencies than an impartial judge.

First, he has behind him an enormous ethnic constituency.

It had no substantial ethnic constituency to keep in mind for electoral gain.

Hudson was avowedly Republican, but he fretted that the Party was blind to its Catholic opportunity, mistaking Catholics for an ethnic constituency satisfied by Columbus Day speeches and St. Patrick's Day parades.

Even Mr. Karzai's own Pashtun ethnic constituency is divided, with some supporting the special court and others — primarily those who won seats — insisting that they want the Parliament to be inaugurated now.

By that time John Huang appeared on the scene, the line between commerce and politics was blurred... Huang quickly showed that he could raise millions of dollars from a new ethnic constituency--Asian-American-sometimes by offering a prospective donor the chance to be photographed with the President..