political constituency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliticalandconstituency
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political
adjective
uk/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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constituency
noun[C]
uk/kənˈstɪtʃ.u.ən.si/us/kənˈstɪtʃ.u.ən.si/
one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandconstituencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Given a large budget, ministers and civil servants can erect many programmes and cater to (or build) a broadpoliticalconstituency.
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Nature's responsibility was given apoliticalconstituencyby the fiscal conservatives who did not want to spend money on public works.
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Second, through the strength of peak associations farmers became a keypoliticalconstituencyin both countries.
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The prime minister was not elected and did not represent a social orpoliticalconstituency.
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Carey in his closing years still had the intellectual courage to follow his autarkic vision to its logical conclusion, even though he lost his naturalpoliticalconstituency.
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The figures we stated were maxima, and nopoliticalconstituencyassociation ought to apply for more petrol than it needs for its minimum requirements.
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My problem in this matter is excessivepoliticalconstituency.
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The make-up of the federation is designed with similarity topoliticalconstituency.
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Basic to this assumption is the idea that glbtq people constitute a legitimatepoliticalconstituencydeserving of equal rights and representation.
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However, the idea was unfamiliar, had nopoliticalconstituency, and failed to gain traction.
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They also increase the political influence of political constituencies who favour more stringent regulatory policies and reduce the influence of business.
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A critic must note that ethnic interests expressed through ethnic-based party organisations encourage narrow political constituencies and tend not to favour aggregation of interests.
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As it tries to straddle different political constituencies, it is difficult to associate it with any particular political and economic agenda or ideology.
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Investment in high-profile and highspeed projects, which had been costed to please political constituencies, as well as large-scale rationalisation programme did not lead to increases in revenue.
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They also all had political constituencies in their respective countries to whom they were answerable, or which they needed to convince of the appropriateness of their decisions.
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It is designed not only to alter irrevocably and on a drastic scale local democratic government for more than 8 million people, but to redraw political constituencies.
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For the government then, it was not only a matter of saving money, but that there was significant opposition and little support from political constituencies.
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He was known as a moderate voice who could build support across political constituencies.
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They were, instead, a series of informal personal groupings with no formal links to political constituencies.
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