Sentence examples for majority constituency from inspiring English sources

He was really trying to reassure both sides that, precious as the right is to Palestinians, actualizing it would not mean the end of Israel; that, on both sides, a majority constituency for a two-state solution remained to be tapped.

"The repression has certainly radicalized a part of this potentially majority constituency, which means that not only the regime, but also the anti-regime, is more divided than the demonstrations that followed the elections," said a European diplomat with years of service in Iran who asked not to be identified in accordance with diplomatic protocol.

Respectfully, Your majority constituency.

While the party has not declared its candidates for the other two Muslim majority constituencies, in Seelampur in East Delhi and Mustafabad in Northeast Delhi, there is little doubt that the debutante party is no mood to put up non-Muslim candidates in these areas.

Such a move would almost certainly lead to months of constitutional crisis.Mr Karzai is staying his hand only because the IEC balked at accepting the astonishing results from Ghazni, a Pushtun-majority constituency where preliminary counts gave all 11 seats to the Hazara ethnic minority.

For weeks diplomats have feared that Mr Karzai would annul the election, thus guaranteeing months of wrenching constitutional crisis.Mr Karzai is staying his hand because the IEC has yet to certify the astonishing results from Ghazni, a Pushtun-majority constituency where preliminary counts gave all 11 seats to the Hazara minority, traditionally at odds with the Pushtuns.

So are a majority of constituency parties.

Because it is due to win the large majority of constituency seats in each region, the PR system will allocate more or all list seats to all its rivals.

With polling consistently placing the SNP at about 50%, the nationalists are expected to win the majority of constituency seats, with Labour and the Conservatives locked in an unprecedented battle for second place over the remaining regional list seats.

Since then a large majority of constituencies with seats to fill have chosen men.

His own apparent probity was a contrast with an administration increasingly known for graft and nepotism, which had failed, too, to deliver benefits of brisk economic growth to Rajapaksa's key voters in Sri Lanka: the conservative Sinhala-majority rural constituency.