Sentence examples for formidable constituencies from inspiring English sources

He did so even though it meant taking on formidable constituencies like the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, the sugar barons in the Florida Everglades, the big utilities and automobile companies that chafed under clean-air regulations, and the oil companies that wanted to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Sudan had already attracted an unusually formidable constituency in Washington.

Young lovers, particularly in South Korea, are a formidable constituency.

And that was what brought Kirori Lal Meena, a lower-caste member of Parliament with a formidable constituency in the state of Rajasthan, to the writers' lounge at Diggi Palace.

The agents are a formidable constituency.

"Beyond his enthusiasts - a formidable constituency given that many are donors - opinions range from indifference to open hostility".

That's a formidable constituency to cross by wrecking the federal exchanges.

With more than 6 million ballots cast in 2008, LGBT voters ranked as a formidable constituency.

Much as evangelical voters in the U.S. form a formidable constituency, so too do Turkey's practicing Muslims; and CHP has done little to address their concerns.

A formidable political constituency, they will not allow the government to inflate away the value of these claims.

The only serious blow to Welsh Labour's election night equilibrium came in Rhondda, a totemic heartland seat housing a formidable Labour constituency operation that nonetheless fell to Plaid leader Leanne Wood's determined assault.