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Example sentences for: constituency
How can you use “constituency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Liberals charge that President Clinton sold out his core constituency by agreeing to deep cuts in domestic spending.
On the NYT Op-Ed page, Garry Wills argues that the true test of a presidential candidate is not temperament or virtue but the shrewd ability to communicate with a constituency.
"Just as soccer moms were the constituency everyone was trying to reach in the 1996 election, Internet users will play the same role this year."
If you begin with the recent election to Congress of Ron Paul, a former Libertarian presidential candidate; note the emergence of cyberlibertarians as a political constituency; factor in the collapse of communism; and quote Bill Clinton's admission that "the era of big government is over," you have what sounds like a compelling case.
My guess is that it will achieve, at the very least, a kind of status that is going to be conferred on more and more English locutions as time goes on: the status of a native idiomatic expression whose constituency is in fact an international group of English speakers.