Sentence examples for small constituencies of from inspiring English sources

At present, half of the 60-member legislature is chosen by mostly small constituencies of business and professional interests whose representatives are elected unopposed.

He quickly became leader of the Labour group on Newcastle upon Tyne council, entering parliament in 1951 for the small constituency of Newcastle Central.

Year after year the Blue Dogs shovel billions of dollars to their small constituency of rich farmers concentrated in only twenty-one of the 435 congressional districts.

Then upon winning the seat in Parliament for her small constituency of Bell End & Lickey, her voters would line the streets to wave her off triumphantly to London, filmed from the air by a BBC News helicopter.

Many of the voters who chose him -- conservative and liberal whites, Latinos, a smaller constituency of blacks -- were seriously alienated by Mark Green and the Democrats.

We tout our "democracy" throughout the world, and at every election cycle its praises are sung, yet a handful of senators acting outside the mainstream, apparently in line with their small constituencies, can thwart the will of the vast majority of Americans, denying in the process, or limiting, a fundamental right of all: a healthy life.

The House of Representatives is made up of congressmen and women who represent small constituencies and a small percentage of these are controlled by the vocal minority known as the tea party.

It eliminated "rotten boroughs": small constituencies controlled by a handful of voters.

These programmes are diverse and often have small constituencies.

To give candidates with small constituencies a better chance to win seats, the votes were tallied under a complicated system of proportional representation.

These are no small constituencies.