Sentence examples for influential constituencies from inspiring English sources

Some targets are hardy perennials, surviving because of influential constituencies.

Facing a record budget deficit, Bush administration officials say they have drafted an election-year budget that will rein in the growth of domestic spending without alienating politically influential constituencies.

The bipartisan immigration proposal being taken up by Congress is putting pressure on the leading presidential candidates to take a position on the issue, which could set them up for confrontations with influential constituencies within the two parties.

In the campaign, Ms. Shaheen has focused on appealing to several influential constituencies: Republican-leaning women who support abortion rights; older voters concerned about health care; environmentalists, and small-business operators who have been hurt by the sluggish economy.

3 NATIONAL 10-17 Bush's Budget for 2005 Reins In Domestic Costs Bush administration officials say they have drafted an election-year budget that will rein in the growth of domestic spending without alienating politically influential constituencies.

Here's the opening sentence of a recent New York Times article on the administration's budget plans: "Facing a record budget deficit, Bush administration officials say they have drafted an election-year budget that will rein in the growth of domestic spending without alienating politically influential constituencies".

The country's powerful businessmen, the only new element on Egypt's otherwise dormant political scene, were Gamal's most influential constituency.

His visit here, which took less time than his flight from New York, reflected the strong ties between Israel and New York City, which is arguably the most important center of Jewish life outside Israel and has a large, influential constituency of Jewish voters.

In many blue states, what makes the current fiscal picture unsustainable are mostly the promises that legislators have made to public-sector unions — a powerful and influential constituency, to be sure, but ultimately just one constituency, which can be successfully isolated and cast as an enemy of the common good.

Arab-Americans are not an influential constituency in the United States, which may partly explain why public reaction to the restrictions of liberty has been muted.David Cole, a civil-rights lawyer, is a professor at Georgetown University and a broadcaster on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".

(And the politically influential constituency of Ogden apparently has its eyes on the entire Carpenter building).