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
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 Russell, Bertrand
