Sentence examples for supportive constituency from inspiring English sources

"Why would you want to very expensively expand the programs like this if the evidence of effectiveness is not really sound?" Mr. Coulson said the president's preschool plan appeared to require highly paid preschool teachers and that Mr. Obama wanted to expand "a very strong, very consistently supportive constituency".

Certainly, the country has a supportive constituency in the United States, although this "Israel lobby" doesn't have the magical powers that some would ascribe to it.

City jobs were often patronage positions, doled out by politicians to supportive constituencies, but black leaders had trouble winning their fair share.

And supportive constituencies matter if you want to do more ambitious things, given that warnings about long-term climate impacts are beyond many politicians' time horizons and pale next to the desire for economic growth.

Mr. Malloy, a Democrat, cast himself as a governor focused on educational innovation in a state with the nation's largest achievement gap between largely white suburban students and largely minority urban ones, even if that put him at odds with traditionally supportive constituencies, like teachers' unions.

Second, mechanisms like the CDM build domestic constituencies supportive of ever stronger action on climate change.

Moreover, in a foolishly ostentatious way, they have seized on the crisis as an opportunity to loot the public treasury and enrich constituencies supportive of their party–and for this politically they will pay and pay.

Mr. Paul is a libertarian-leaning first-term senator who was catapulted into office by passionate Tea Party enthusiasts, the constituency most supportive of the Republicans' hard-line stance on the shutdown.

There may be no constituency more supportive of Mr Spitzer than the rank and file including the former rank and file of many banks: he is seen as the only public official bold enough to take action to bring people to account.

Despite these overtures to a constituency not usually supportive of the Republican Party, this year's GOP platform is one of the most anti-LGBT ever. .

These constituencies are, for instance, not always supportive of the introduction and implementation of local environmental protection measures (Caulfield 2006) such as prohibitions on the use of wetlands or forests.