Sentence examples for open constituency from inspiring English sources

In 1774 Burke was elected a member of Parliament for Bristol, then the second city of the kingdom and an open constituency requiring a genuine election contest.

A legitimate question, you might say, if it's true the 73-year-old Labour member for Middlesbrough hasn't held an open constituency surgery for 14 years, and allegedly won't return phone calls - Bell says he meets regularly with his constituents by appointment and has no record of the alleged calls.

The problem for the Opposition in 1734 was that there were few such populous, open constituencies but very many rotten borough seats such as Malmesbury.

The envelope was kept in a safe at Loughner's home alongside a letter from Giffords in 2007 thanking him for attending an earlier open air constituency meeting of the kind he attacked on Saturday.

Six of its 10 members in the 60-member legislature represent geographic constituencies open to voting by the general public, which has turned out huge demonstrations against the bill.

A facetious observer might describe Mr Brown as the Scottish Obama or Mr Obama as "the Black Gordon".As for the idea that Britain could use more of that American drama: it is true that more town-hall meetings and debates among leaders, and open "primaries" in constituencies, would enliven elections.

The constitution stipulates that 475 members of the 500-seat parliament are needed to convene parliament and the protesters have already prevented candidates from registering in 28 out of the 375 constituencies open to direct elections.Thailand's political crisis, in other words, will only grow.

At the time May made clear her support for moves in her own Maidenhead constituency to open a similar satellite grammar school.

Later announced he would not contest the next election after a hostile open meeting in his constituency.

And although the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile stretch of road that slices through Meadows' constituency, remains open, more than 80% of park service staff have been furloughed.

Senior Conservatives warned Kirkbride that she must defend herself at an open meeting in her constituency after she admitted employing her sister to work part-time for her, even though she works more than 100 miles from her Bromsgrove constituency.