Sentence examples for significant constituency from inspiring English sources

Behind the 1998 accord that has brought stability to Northern Ireland is a conviction that these people, once perpetrators of mayhem, can be a significant constituency for calm.

AB & ZM: We certainly engage this narrative in the sense that unemployed or underemployed youth were a significant constituency of all the protests we examined.

What's encouraging about these moments is that they show a significant constituency is receptive to a more humane kind of politics.

The early leader is Zalmay Rassoul, a polished former foreign minister who would be welcome in any Western capital but lacks a significant constituency in Afghanistan.

While Mr. Stringer said he was not doing so for political gain, it could raise his standing among gay and lesbian voters, a significant constituency in the city.

Despite winning several significant constituency battles in Edinburgh Southern, Dumbarton and East Lothian, the party's poor performance left it with 22 seats, 15 down on its result in 2011.

But there are significant constituencies in America who are not yet interested in holding men accountable for abusive behavior.

"There are not many wars in Africa with significant constituencies in the United States," said J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research organization in Washington.

His vow to pare down the French state was bound to anger significant constituencies in a country where state spending is 56percentt of gross domestic product, the highest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's advanced economies.

Its current season includes only one war horse, Puccini's "Tosca," and a few less-traveled works, like Handel's "Agrippina" and Britten's "Midsummer Night's Dream," that have significant constituencies.

While UN recognition will undoubtedly mark an important stage in the Palestinian struggle, there is a clear and growing realisation that this will neither fulfil Palestinian national aspirations nor address the needs of significant constituencies such as the diaspora and Israel's Arab citizens – together a majority of the Palestinian people.