Sentence examples for mining constituencies from inspiring English sources

But the plan was introduced with little warning, angering industry giants and voters in important mining constituencies, who worried that the new tax would cost jobs and slow the economy.

Elsewhere in the county, attention is focused on the rise of the fortunes of the UK Independence Party in South Yorkshire on the back of a succession of scandals involving Labour politicians which have seen the party come under extreme pressure in historically safe steel and mining constituencies.

It was a mining constituency and miner followed miner as the MP.

The whiff of Geoff Hoon, hit by expenses and then by "cash for consultancies" revelations this spring which led to his suspension from the Parliamentary Labour party, was not easily erased in Ashfield, the former mining constituency in Nottinghamshire.

The objective of protesters in Majaz is to kill the project while it is in the exploration phase -- before, presumably, a pro-mine constituency can develop in the area.

Then, he said, they are looking for voters further afield, "mining different sub-constituencies they can tap into".

I know there are Labour MPs with constituencies like mine, with beliefs like mine and with desires for a better society like mine.

In many constituencies, like mine, there are always more votes for the progressive parties combined than for the Tory incumbent.

The choice is stark: back to warlord-controlled Afghanistan, the maelstrom of "liberated" Iraq, reverse ethnically cleansed Yugoslavia, or beg, steal or borrow in constituencies like mine.

In former industrial constituencies like mine, ladders of support to help young people get on in life are being systematically kicked away.

"My concern is that a divisive list of this kind does nothing to help us take on the Tories and get back into Government or tackle the real issues adversely affecting constituencies like mine".