be a constituent
Example Sentences
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Beth Ehrbar, a Berea resident who works at the university and used to be a constituent of Kasich’s during his time as a Columbus-area Congressman, declared herself “very excited!”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016
Standard & Poor’s said yesterday that Sino-Forest no longer qualifies to be a constituent of the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 31, 2011
Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent.
From Time Magazine Archive
One reason for not believing the denotation to be a constituent of the proposition is that we may know the proposition even when we are not acquainted with the denotation.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
In this case, if he made a judgement about himself, he himself might be a constituent of the judgement.
From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
