Sentences with phrase «powerful constituencies in»

The Alliance wanted to limit that liability, but trial lawyers, a powerful constituency in the state, defeated that effort.

The first President Bush watched fundamentalist and evangelical voters emerge as a powerful constituency in 1990 and 1991.

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If you govern in a real way, which entails making difficult choices and saying no to powerful constituencies, then you will have enemies by year eight.

Harman, whose Peckham constituency neighboured Jowell's seat, added: «She had a unique personal style, she befriended people who were struggling, who were having difficulties, who were powerless who she felt she could support, but she also befriended the powerful in order to get them to back her progressive causes.

Had the commission been able to develop as a real alternative to local authorization, larger numbers of charter schools could have been established, and that likely would have created a powerful political constituency in support of charter schools, capable of resisting jealous attacks from the public education establishment.

While it is true that failing to endorse Malloy could have led to Malloy banning the union leadership from the «rooms of power,» not endorsing Malloy would have sent a powerful message to elected officials, in Connecticut and around the nation, that walking away from the values and constituencies of the Democratic Party has real and severe consequences.