Sentence examples for smallest constituency from inspiring English sources

This is one reason why settlers count for so much in Israeli elections, where proportional representation gives undue political leverage to even the smallest constituency.

In this, the second smallest constituency in the country, divided between two very distinct island communities, the local member of parliament has a far higher profile personally and plays a far more significant public role than an urban MP in, for example, Glasgow.

To elected officials, the unemployed are a relatively small constituency.

Alas, my mother was preaching to a very small constituency.

The construction industry provision looks like "a political payoff to satisfy the desires of a small constituency," the letter said.

However, the small constituency that is primarily served by the reconstructed party cannot provide votes, so they have to turn elsewhere.

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.

What this means is that there will be only a small constituency for repealing the estate tax and a much larger one for retaining the estate tax but keeping the $4 million exemption and the protection from capital gains taxes.

As a rightwinger, he naturally attracted leftwing opposition, particularly from Militant, whose Trotskyist members made a tremendous effort in the 1980s to penetrate and capture small constituency Labour parties.

In Brookhaven and North Hempstead, the creation of districts not only made town board members more directly accountable to a smaller constituency, it also helped eliminate strict one-party rule.

There is a small constituency in Canada that supports Black to this day, even though he gave up his Canadian citizenship to become a UK life peer in 1999.