Sentence examples for popular constituency from inspiring English sources

Fox himself, however, was reelected for the great popular constituency of Westminster, defeating the ministerial candidate.

It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work.

In the Clinton years, the hope was that, once NAFTA took effect, its benefits would strengthen its popular constituency.

Not only do they propose, as a way to arrest the decline, a third party, with no clear policies, programs, popular constituency, or potential leaders; they also present every problem as one confronted by a uniform "we".

But he has struggled to build a popular constituency on his home turf and became a target for senior Fatah figures resentful of his power, and who blamed him for all the authority's problems.

Specifically it suggests that a popular constituency for action on the social determinants of health is unlikely to eventuate from the current popular understandings of possible policy levers.

In what is shaping up as a smackdown between two of the least popular constituencies out there — airlines and corporate chieftains — the argument over the delays plaguing airports across America this summer is quickly taking a populist turn.

It was a reminder that the truly public uses of public lands, which the Bundys wanted to return to logging and ranching, have their own popular constituencies — which is why an elected government, not an ad-hoc occupation, gets to resolve disagreements over public lands.

But the proliferation of laws designed to restrain protest and strike action, the growth of a centralised and militarised policing apparatus and the boom in prison construction, all beginning during her reign, not only transformed the relationship of citizens to the state but in so doing weakened popular constituencies relative to dominant business elites.

What's more, opposing Heathrow expansion is popular in the constituency.

"I think Esther will hang on, she is popular in the constituency, people respect what she has achieved and I hope that will be more than enough to get her over the line," he says.