Sentences with phrase «powerful constituency»

Before that ruling, Catholics were a solid, reliable Democratic voting block, «one of the most powerful constituencies in the Democratic party,» says Brinkley.

He writes, «American schools and educational policy are structured to enhance the opportunities of culturally, economically, and politically powerful constituencies at the expense of families who lack this human capital.»

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.

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.

Bill de Blasio doesn't want to upset a powerful constituency, especially right before an election, and so whether explicitly or implicitly, the investigation is dragging on without a conclusion.

Each of those items has a powerful constituency behind it, however, capable of big - money pressure to which the Legislature and previous governors have long succumbed.

But other Democrats and teachers unions, a powerful constituency within the party, have railed against charters, which operate free of many district constraints and usually have non-unionized teachers.

«Parents can be a powerful constituency of voters with influence over elected officials.

There is no powerful constituency of people who want to kill cats and dogs.

Acknowledge evolution, and you provide fodder for the evangelicals to drive a wedge between the candidate and a powerful constituency.

Mann said that had the investigation been permitted to continue, «it would have opened the floodgates for others» to use similar methods to harass scientists whose findings threatened a powerful constituency.