Sentence examples for solid constituencies from inspiring English sources

It enshrines one of the most regressive tax codes in the nation and puts enormous power in the hands of the Legislature, thus creating solid constituencies against change.

For now, the public deserves to see Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore lay out the substantial differences between them, without interference from third- or fourth-party candidates who have not built solid constituencies.

The West, Turkey and the Arabs want time to shape the opposition, divided by bickering and lacking a solid constituency within Syria, into a credible alternative government.

The political genius of universal entitlements like Medicare and social security is that their beneficiaries are rich and poor alike, and thus form a rock solid constituency: people like you and me, whoever you and me happen to be.

It was off-target because Hamid Karzai lacks the qualities or assets that empower the leaders of Myanmar and Turkmenistan to effectively control their territory: a solid constituency (not necessarily a majority) of powerful political groups that back them, and total control over a ruthless and cohesive military.

The migration to the suburbs had thinned the church's solid constituency, especially among the Irish, and neither the new Hispanic immigrants nor the grandchildren of the older Irish and Italian ones were as likely to defer to the hierarchy's judgments.

"Probably a majority [of Democrats] in the House and the Senate are still with us, but there's a solid constituency who aren't".

All this is to say, Gabbard doesn't appear to have a solid constituency anywhere within the national Democratic Party, thus making her bid for the nomination dead on arrival.

Whilst Major and Blair, Brown and Cameron fought for the middle ground, those solid Labour constituencies were left to rot and fester with fewer and fewer people voting and a cycle of deprivation trapping generations into a ghetto of social stasis.

It sounds technical, but it just so happens that the programme "disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters – with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races".

A huge number of votes for the Scottish Nationalists over Labour has led to some historic voting swings in formerly solid Labour constituencies.