Sentence examples for prosperous constituency from inspiring English sources

The collapse of the UUP was at its most pronounced in North Down, the most prosperous constituency in Northern Ireland and a former bastion for the party.

The lobby's leaders this week portrayed their prosperous constituency as an underdog, in a moral struggle against Goliath: American farmers and corporations bent on doing business with Castro.

Ian Murray, in the prosperous constituency of Edinburgh South, was the only Labour MP left after the party's disastrous defeat to the Scottish National party in May's general election.

The prosperous consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers is being sold to Hewlett-Packard for $18 billion.Congress, which has never been known for valuing straightforward accounting but which does appreciate the value of a well-heeled constituency, has been heavily lobbied on this issue and may soon intervene on behalf of the poor bean-counters (see article).

This was in a sense historic the prosperous south Nottinghamshire constituency has now given the Tories their first by-election victory while in office since 1989.

Rochester is just the sort of somewhat-prosperous southern English constituency it held in its New Labour pomp; the constituency has low unemployment and its household incomes are close to the national average.

Last week, at the doors of a Tesco store in Ballybrack, the poorer end of the otherwise prosperous Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency in south county Dublin, shoppers' bitter resentment towards the outgoing government was stark.

The present boundaries tend to work in favour of the Labour Party, because seats in Wales, Scotland, and in the English inner cities on average have smaller electoral rolls than the more prosperous, Tory-voting English constituencies.

The constituency is a leafy, prosperous suburb in south Birmingham.

The result contrasts with other recent constituency polls in this prosperous pocket of South Yorkshire, which sprawls out to the west beyond Sheffield into the Peak District.

During the interview, he denied suggestions it was being harder hit than more prosperous areas, such as his Oxfordshire constituency, and said he was proud to lead a government that "generously supports areas with greater needs".