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  • On the first Tuesday of October, Swaney would have a fresh chance to let his constituents know what sort of town Clarkston was becoming.†   (source)
  • The bands of color reach so high, seem at times to separate into their constituent parts.†   (source)
  • Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together.†   (source)
  • Even when he profits modestly for himself, his wife, and his kids, the disparities between his life and those of his constituents grow so wide that fingers point at him.†   (source)
  • Howe, a member of Parliament and a Whig, had earlier told his Nottingham constituents that if it came to war in America and he were offered a command, he would decline.†   (source)
  • Farmer would write, "The most striking thing about move san disorder is the lurid extremity of its symbolism: two of the body's most vital constituents, blood and milk, are turned to poisons.†   (source)
  • All he had to do was buffalo his constituents into electing him.†   (source)
  • Adams argued that the rule was an abomination upon the Constitutional rights of not only the members of the House, but also of their constituents.†   (source)
  • The agreement was that voters would elect four hundred representatives to a constituent assembly, which wouldboth write a new constitution and serve as a parliament.†   (source)
  • Everything, it seems, has slowed to its constituent elements.†   (source)
  • His campaign manager had done the preliminary work, and Chalmers was now on his way to face his future constituents for the first time at an over publicized rally in San Francisco tomorrow night.†   (source)
  • An army, Eragon had learned, was a ravenous, insatiable beast that would soon die and separate into its constituent elements unless massive amounts of food were shoveled into its many thousands of stomachs upon a regular basis.†   (source)
  • John Kwang had taught him the words so that he could properly greet the large number of Korean constituents and visitors to our Flushing office.†   (source)
  • As patriotic cheering fills the house, he honors his constituents by standing at the edge of the box and bowing twice.†   (source)
  • The proportion of representatives to their constituents is larger in the small republic.†   (source)
  • Within this past year alone this Department has received no less than thirty-seven memoranda from Members of the House of Commons, all expressing the deep concern of their constituents that we ought to do something about the wolf.†   (source)
  • If all these animals were kept in stalls or pens throughout the year and the manure carefully saved, the approximate value of the fertilizing constituents of the manure produced by each horse or mule annually would be $27, by each head of cattle $20, by each hog $8, and by each sheep $2.†   (source)
  • Oh, and a detail I almost forgot-he's a Social Revolutionary and was elected regional deputy to the Constituent Assembly.†   (source)
  • For their very concept of the Senate, in contrast to the House, was of a body which would not be subject to constituent pressures.†   (source)
  • Their constituents wondered what they were hiding, and their electoral doom was all but assured.†   (source)
  • Are not those independence enough for my beloved constituents?†   (source)
  • So we cut deals and make compromises and hope our constituents will look favorably on us.†   (source)
  • Very large and very small populations should have different representative to constituent ratios.†   (source)
  • Several things assure us that the Representatives will be faithful to their constituents.†   (source)
  • You relate well to strangers and constituents.†   (source)
  • Senators will promote the interests of their constituents.†   (source)
  • And the less he acts like his predecessor, the more his constituents will like him.†   (source)
  • Of course, a representative should know about his constituents.†   (source)
  • I believe national rulers will need to fulfill the reasonable expectations of their constituents.†   (source)
  • When they begin to serve, they will have at least a temporary affection for their constituents.†   (source)
  • Third, the representative is also tied to his constituents for selfish reasons.†   (source)
  • To be effective, constituents must be able to see and judge the operations of that power.†   (source)
  • If the elected representatives betray their constituents, self-defense is the only option.†   (source)
  • In the Senate he frequently broke not only with his party but with his constituents as well.†   (source)
  • It's the army of the Siberian Government; it's fighting to restore the Constituent Assembly.†   (source)
  • As I identified its constituents through a hand lens, I noted the information in my record book.†   (source)
  • Could Norris possibly desert his party, his state and his constituents under such circumstances?†   (source)
  • Few politicians have had the distinction of being scourged by such talented constituents.†   (source)
  • Representatives from the five zones of each of the five regions, twenty-five in all, speaking for the various moons, planets, and stations in the Garseddai system, had surrendered in the name of their constituents, and were separately on their way to Sword of Amaat to meet Anaander Mianaai, Lord of the Radch, and beg for the lives of their people.†   (source)
  • Individual Americans also offered to help, including Senator John Kerry, a rich man who had visited Pakistan many times, and Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman who had been shot in the head while meeting constituents at a shopping mall in Arizona.†   (source)
  • He was sure to fail at that task—Clarkston was changing more every day, as new refugee families arrived—and he was equally sure to disappoint his constituents, who had counted on him to succeed in preserving their town's identity.†   (source)
  • For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.†   (source)
  • Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real challenges of their biggest constituents.†   (source)
  • I watched lobbyists come and go and overheard the senator and his staff debate whether a particular bill was good for his constituents, good for his state, or good for both.†   (source)
  • The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding?†   (source)
  • The fourth question was preceded by a sober instruction: Imagine the White House wanted the unfiltered opinion of its constituents.†   (source)
  • Now, with 90 percent of Washington transparent, and the remaining 10 percent wilting under the suspi6on of their colleagues and constituents, the question beat down on them like an angry sun: What are you hiding?†   (source)
  • She stayed at CE until five, when she showed her watchers the newest Clarification, the governor of Arizona, and enjoyed the surprise transparency of the governor's entire staff—something that many officials were doing, to ensure to their constituents that deals were not being done, in darkness, outside the light of the clear leader.†   (source)
  • The culture of ascent was characterized by intense competition and undiluted machismo, but for the most part, its constituents were concerned with impressing only one another.†   (source)
  • They dissolved, as the saying goes, in laughter, they practically disappeared into their constituent elements, into atoms and molecules, a couple of girls in a gangster Packard, blown forward in time, and Klara stood on the roof sipping tepid wine and hearing people say, We need theater, and she knew she would tell this story to Miles and she also knew she could never again have a friend like Rochelle or a mother like her mother for that matte†   (source)
  • "What in the name of Common Sense are you gentlemen of the Continental Congress about?" demanded a constituent writing from Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • That, plus the fact that the Grants aren't going, makes Lincoln's obligation all the more urgent—he knows his constituents will be deeply disappointed if both of America's two most famous men fail to appear.†   (source)
  • We advocated the creation of a multiparty negotiating conference to set up the interim government and set out the guiding principles for the functioning of a constituent assembly.†   (source)
  • When it came to constitutional issues, we told the government we were demanding an elected constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution; we believed that the men and women creating the constitution should be the choice of the people themselves.†   (source)
  • Jefferson proposed that members of Congress adjourn at once and go home to consult their constituents on the great crisis.†   (source)
  • The question now was how many of the rest who were in league with Dickinson would on the morrow continue, in Adams's words, to "vote point blank against the known and declared sense of their constituents.†   (source)
  • With Richard Henry Lee, he put forth a resolution recommending that the individual colonies assume all powers of government—to secure "the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general."†   (source)
  • Representative/Constituent Ratio†   (source)
  • Constituent/Legislator Ratios†   (source)
  • In other words, there is only one representative to maintain the rights and represent 28,670 constituents.†   (source)
  • With such a large number of constituents, Representatives will not know enough about the local circumstances.†   (source)
  • Would not one man be able to see the atrocious conspiracy, or bold or honest enough to tell his constituents of their danger?†   (source)
  • A foreign power might help an ambitious man make his own aggrandizement the price of his treachery to his constituents.†   (source)
  • But it will increase if he has established himself in the esteem and good will of his constituents during his time in office.†   (source)
  • If it is dependent on the people, that dependence will restrain schemes obnoxious to their constituents.†   (source)
  • Would every man elected to the national Senate or House of Representatives instantly become a traitor to his constituents and his country?†   (source)
  • The House of Representatives needs to both depend on the people and sympathize with their constituents.†   (source)
  • When a representative has too few constituents, his worry about local issues will make him unfit to understand and pursue national issues.†   (source)
  • When a representative has too many constituents, it will be difficult for him to know all the local issues.†   (source)
  • Whether either side increases its area of power at the expense of the other will depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents, not which is more ambitious or where it is located.†   (source)
  • However, we will not deduct the large number of representatives who do not live among their constituents, are very little connected with them, and have little knowledge of their affairs.†   (source)
  • If the public good is being sacrificed, he will act because his constituents, who would normally agree with the legislative body, would probably support the veto.†   (source)
  • If foreign gold could easily corrupt our federal rulers, enabling them to ensnare and betray their constituents, why are we currently free and independent?†   (source)
  • With nearly the same size population, Pennsylvania's legislature is 1/5 the size of Massachusetts with a representative for every 4 or 5,000 constituents.†   (source)
  • Or one set of federal representatives would be contending against thirteen sets of State representatives, with all of their common constituents on the side of the latter.†   (source)
  • They say more members are needed to represent all different classes of citizens, the interests of every part of the community, and to produce sympathy between the representative body and its constituents.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he went to the staff headquarters, which were in the building where Komuch —the Constituent Assembly Army-used to have its headquarters.†   (source)
  • What had become an almost solid mass of a hundred or more animals broke up into its constituent small bands again, and each went galloping off on its own course.†   (source)
  • Those political forces that are still faithful to the Provisional Government and the disbanded Constituent Assembly are concentrating in the Maritime Province on the Pacific coast.†   (source)
  • But one example indicates that even the President feels the pressures of constituent and special interests.†   (source)
  • Between those who make my life a misery because my son is a Red, a Bolshevik, the people's favorite, and those who want to know why I was elected to the Constituent Assembly: Nobody is pleased, I have no one to turn to.†   (source)
  • The people cherished the hope of enjoying the conquests of the revolution in peace, but the party of the Bolsheviks, in the pay of foreign capital, dispersed the Constituent Assembly, which was the people's highest hope, by brute force of bayonets, and now the blood of the defenseless flows in rivers.†   (source)
  • Of these, only Daniel Webster was to share with Benton and Houston the ignominy of constituent wrath and the humiliation of political downfall at the hands of the states they had loved and championed.†   (source)
  • The examples of constituent passions unfairly condemning a man of principle are not unanswerable arguments against permitting the widest participation in the electoral process.†   (source)
  • This may mean that we must on occasion lead, inform, correct and sometimes even ignore constituent opinion, if we are to exercise fully that judgment for which we were elected.†   (source)
  • But as the Senate shed its role as executive council and entered on a more equal basis with the House into the legislative process, it also became apparent that no Constitutional safeguards, however nobly created, could prevent political and constituent pressures from entering those deliberations.†   (source)
  • Since first reading—long before I entered the Senate—an account of John Quincy Adams and his struggle with the Federalist party, I have been interested in the problems of political courage in the face of constituent pressures, and the light shed on those problems by the lives of past statesmen.†   (source)
  • I wish all my friends and constituents to understand that I, and not they, am sitting in judgment upon the President.†   (source)
  • Paying but little heed to the demands of his constituents, he exhausted all available treatises on both sides of the controversy.†   (source)
  • And if such interests are ever to be abandoned in favor of the national good, let the constituents—not the Senator—decide when and to what extent.†   (source)
  • The newspapers came daily filled with not a few threats of violence upon their return to their constituents.†   (source)
  • Yet his intentional and stunningly courageous disobedience to the will of his constituents was not wholly in vain.†   (source)
  • If we tell our constituents frankly that we can do nothing, they feel we are unsympathetic or inadequate.†   (source)
  • Are we rightfully entitled to ignore the demands of our constituents even if we are able and willing to do so?†   (source)
  • They were warned in the party press, harangued by their constituents, and sent dire warnings threatening political ostracism and even assassination.†   (source)
  • His principles usually led him to conclusions which a substantial percentage of his constituents and political associates were willing to support.†   (source)
  • Fate had borne out the wisdom of Benton's last report to his constituents as Senator: "I value solid popularity—the esteem of good men for good action.†   (source)
  • His background and life were investigated from top to bottom, and his constituents and colleagues pursued him throughout Washington to gain some inkling of his opinion.†   (source)
  • But he did believe that he was in a better position as a Member of the United States Senate to judge what was best for the interests of his constituents.†   (source)
  • But it is a little easier to dismiss one's obligations to local interests and party ties than to face squarely the problem of one's responsibility to the will of his constituents.†   (source)
  • His constituents and Massachusetts newspapers admonished him strongly not to waver in his consistent anti-slavery stand, and many urged him to employ still tougher tones against the South.†   (source)
  • ....It is indeed a heavy cross to lay upon the heart of a public man to have to take a stand which causes the love and confidence of his constituents to flow away from him.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I question whether any Senator, before we vote on a measure, can state with certainty exactly how the majority of his constituents feel on the issue as it is presented to the Senate.†   (source)
  • But it was not until 1807 that the split between party and Senator became irreparable, and Adams was denounced by the great majority of his constituents, as well as the party chiefs.†   (source)
  • Indeed it is frequently the compromisers and conciliators who are faced with the severest tests of political courage as they oppose the extremist views of their constituents.†   (source)
  • Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority; but most of them were not.†   (source)
  • Many Senators before and after 1804 have combatted the ill-effects of being termed a political heretic by their party chieftains by building strong personal popularity among their constituents.†   (source)
  • In short, according to this school of thought, if I am to be properly responsive to the will of my constituents, it is my duty to place their principles, not mine, above all else.†   (source)
  • Some of them may havebeen actually advancing the long-range interests of their states in opposition to the shortsighted and narrow prejudices of their constituents; but some of them were not.†   (source)
  • We realize, moreover, that our influence in the club—and the extent to which we can accomplish our objectives and those of our constituents—are dependent in some measure on the esteem with which we are regarded by other Senators.†   (source)
  • We have noted the pressures that make political courage a difficult course—let us turn now to those Constitutional and more theoretical obligations which cast doubt upon the propriety of such a course—obligations to our state and section, to our party and, above all, to our constituents.†   (source)
  • It may take courage to battle one's President, one's party or the overwhelming sentiment of one's nation; but these do not compare, it seems to me, to the courage required of the Senator defying the angry power of the very constituents who control his future.†   (source)
  • Although even the Federalists of Kentucky found it necessary to oppose President Washington on the issue, Marshall bluntly told his constituents: In considering the objections to this Treaty, I am frequently ready to exclaim: Ah!†   (source)
  • All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung—the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarefied atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.†   (source)
  • Those in the South who sought to demonstrate to the nation that the fanatical sectionalism of their region had been forgotten—men like Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar of Mississippi—were attacked by their constituents as deserters to the conquering enemy.†   (source)
  • Local prejudices, said Hamilton, were to be forgotten on the Senate floor, else it would simply be a repetition of the Continental Congress where "the first question has been 'how will such a measure affect my constituents and ....my re-election.'†   (source)
  • These problems do not even concern politics alone—for the same basic choice of courage or compliance continually faces us all, whether we fear the anger of constituents, friends, a board of directors or our union, whenever we stand against the flow of opinion on strongly contested issues.†   (source)
  • Others predicted that agitators would be scattered throughout the audience to make presentation of his arguments impossible, and told the Senator that the torpedoing of three more American merchant ships since the filibuster had further intensified the anger of his constituents.†   (source)
  • The founding fathers could not have envisioned service in the Senate as providing an opportunity for "political courage," whereby men would endanger or end their careers by resisting the will of their constituents.†   (source)
  • As the contest for the State Legislature that would name his successor raged in Missouri, Senator Benton stood fast by his post in Washington, outspoken to the end in his condemna-tion of the views his constituents now embraced.†   (source)
  • To refuse either to obey or to resign the office, so that his constituents "might select someone else who might truly represent them," was to deny, said Davis, that the people had the requisite amount of intelligence to govern!†   (source)
  • But whenparty and officeholder differ as to how the national interest is to be served, we must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences.†   (source)
  • The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular—not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately.†   (source)
  • As sentiment grew overwhelmingly in favor of secession during the heated Presidental campaign of 1860, Governor Houston could only implore his impatient constituents to wait and see what Mr. Lincoln's attitude would be, if elected.†   (source)
  • Thus, perhaps without realizing it, some Senators tend to take the easier, less troublesome path to harmonize or rationalize what at first appears to be a conflict between their conscience—or the result of their deliberations—and the majority opinion of their constituents.†   (source)
  • Thus, unwilling to "represent the people of Nebraska if they did not want me," he came to a dramatic decision—he would offer to resign from the Senate and submit to a special recall election, "to let my constituents decide whether I was representing them or misrepresenting them in Washington."†   (source)
  • He cannot ignore the pressure groups, his constituents, his party, the comradeship of his colleagues, the needs of his family, his own pride in office, the necessity for compromise and the importance of remaining in office.†   (source)
  • Summoning for the last time that spellbinding oratorical ability, he abandoned his previous opposition to slavery in the territories, abandoned his constituents' abhorrence of the Fugitive Slave Law, abandoned his own place in the history and hearts of his countrymen and abandoned his last chance for the goal that had eluded him for over twenty years—the Presidency.†   (source)
  • But had his own vote in the Senate been necessary to save Jefferson's foreign policy, Adams wrote to those who criticized his departure at such a critical time, then "highly as I reverenced the authority of my constituents, and bitter as would have been the cup of resistance to their declared will ....I would have defended their interests against their inclinations, and incurred every possible addition to their resentment, to save them from the vassalage of their own delusions.†   (source)
  • If yousay I must come down, I will obey without a murmur, for you cannot make me lie to you; but if you return me, I can only say that I will be true to love of country, truth, and God...I have always thought that the first duty of a public man in a Republic founded upon the sovereignty of the people is a frank and sincere expression of his opinions to his constituents.†   (source)
  • But he could not have foreseen that this nation's role in the world would bring constantly recurring crises and troublesome problems to the floor of the United States Senate, crises which would force men like George Norris to choose between conscience and constituents, problems which would force men like Bob Taft to choose between principles and popularity.†   (source)
  • When a Southern antagonist taunted him on the Senate floor that his vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill had now insured his defeat, Houstonmerely replied with a graceful smile that it was true "that I have received an earnest and gratifying assurance from my constituents that they intend to relieve me of further service here..."†   (source)
  • They expect—and not without considerable trepidation—their constituents to be the final judges of the wisdom of their course; but they have faith that those constituents—today, tomorrow or even in another generation—will at least respect the principles that motivated their independent stand.†   (source)
  • The Texas Treaty was popular in Missouri, despite Benton's assertion that he did not know whether his constituents really were opposed to his position:if they were, and I knew it, I should resign my place; for I could neither violate their known wishes in voting against it, nor violate my own sense of constitutional or moral duty in voting for it.†   (source)
  • An editorial in a Kansas newspaper screamed: On Saturday last Edmund G. Ross, United States Senator from Kansas, sold himself, and betrayed his constituents; stultified his own record, basely lied to his friends, shamefully violated his solemn pledge ....and to the utmost of his poor ability signed the death warrant of his country's liberty.†   (source)
  • He denied the duty of elected representatives "to be palsied by the will of their constituents"; and he refused to achieve success by becoming what he termed a "patriot by profession," by pretending "extraordinary solicitude for the people, by flattering their prejudices, by ministering to their passions, and by humoring their transient and changeable opinions."†   (source)
  • One of my Southern colleagues told me that a similar group visited him not long ago with the same requests—but further urging that he take steps to (1) end the low-wage competition from Japan and (2) prevent the Congress from ending—through a higher minimum wage—the low-wage advantage they themselves enjoy to the dismay of my constituents.†   (source)
  • On January 30, the State Legislature adopted a Memorial omitting all mention of Lamar but—in an obvious and deliberate slap—congratulating and thanking his colleague (to whom the white Democratic legislators normally were bitterly opposed) for voting the opposite way and thus reflecting "the sentiment and will of his constituents."†   (source)
  • At no time did he, who has properly been termed the most gifted statesman given by the South to the nation from the close of the Civil War to the turn of the century, ever veer from the deep conviction he had expressed while under bitter attack in 1878: The liberty of this country and its great interests will never be secure if its public men become mere menials to do the biddings of their constituents instead of being representatives in the true sense of the word, looking to the lasting prosperity and future interests of the whole country.†   (source)
  • Sam Houston must have known the bill would pass, he must have known that not a single other Southern Democratwould join him, he must have known that, as rumor of his position had spread the previous week, the Richmond Enquirer had spoken for his constituents in declaring, "Nothing can justify this treachery; nor can anything save the traitor from the deep damnation which such treason may merit."†   (source)
  • So, I believe, are the stories of other Senators of courage—men whose abiding loyalty to their nation triumphed over all personal and political considerations, men who showed the real meaning of courage and a real faith in democracy, men who made the Senate of the United States something more than a mere collection of robots dutifully recording the views of their constituents, or a gathering of time-servers skilled only in predicting and following the tides of public sentiment.†   (source)
  • Speaking to thousands of people in crowded halls and open fields, Lamar stated frankly that he was well aware that he had not pleased his constituents; that he was equally well aware that the easier path was to exploit that sectional cause to which he had always been devoted; but that it was his intention to help create a feeling of confidence and mutuality between North and South by voting in the national interest without regard to sectional pressures.†   (source)
  • I despise the bubble popularity that is won without merit and lost without crime...I have been Senator 30 years...I sometimes had to act against the preconceived opinions and first impressions of my constituents; but always with full reliance upon their intelligence to understand me and their equity to do me justice—and I have never been disappointed.†   (source)
  • State legislatures, which would become increasingly responsive to those previously scorned "masses" as property qualifications for voting were removed, transmitted the political pressures of their own constituents to their Senators through "instructions" (a device which in this country apparently had originated in the old Puritan town meetings, which had instructed their deputies to the Massachusetts General Court on such measures as "removing the Capital from the wicked city of Boston," taking any steps possible "to exterminate the legal profession,†   (source)
  • And, finally, I am convinced that we have criticized those who have followed the crowd—and at the same time criticized those who have defied it—because we have not fully understood the responsibility of a Senator to his constituents or recognized the difficulty facing a politician conscientiously desiring, in Webster's words, "to push [his] skiff from the shore alone" into a hostile and turbulent sea.†   (source)
  • Then with a little start she would wake up again-wake up to the aquarium antics of the Tennis Champions, to the Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana rendering of "Hug me till you drug me, honey," to the warm draught of verbena that came blowing through the ventilator above her head-would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of infantile contentment.†   (source)
  • Then he addressed them: "And now, O priests, I take my leave of you; all the constituents of being are transitory; work out your salvation with diligence."†   (source)
  • The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.†   (source)
  • Besides, because of what the newspapers had said of her coming east to aid her son and the picture that she herself presented in her homely garb, it was assumed by most ministers that she was one of those erratic persons, not a constituent of any definite sect, or schooled theology, who tended by her very appearance to cast contempt on true and pure religion.†   (source)
  • Spectrum analysis of the black powder points unmistakably to the presence of an unknown element with a brilliant group of three lines in the green, and it is possible that it combines with argon to form a compound which acts at once with deadly effect upon some constituent in the blood.†   (source)
  • Little arduous as his professional duties were, he would have been convicted of frivolity by the whole Mingott clan if he had suggested asking for a holiday in mid-winter; and he accepted May's departure with the resignation which he perceived would have to be one of the principal constituents of married life.†   (source)
  • Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't.†   (source)
  • The normal day was carefully organized and neatly divided into its constituent parts; one quickly fell in with the routine and learned to move with its turning gears.†   (source)
  • The constituent element of his love, therefore, was not the amiable, tender melancholy found in our little song.†   (source)
  • It was by its very nature composed of many elements, and however legitimate this instinct was when regarded as a whole, each of its constituent elements was a perversion.†   (source)
  • I believe, in fact, we spoke about life and death, about the dignity of death, to the extent that it is a constituent and prerequisite of life, and about how it can degenerate into something grotesque if we commit the abominable error of isolating it as an intellectual principle.†   (source)
  • The only healthy and noble and indeed, let me expressly point out, the only religious way in which to regard death is to perceive and feel it as a constituent part of life, as life's holy prerequisite, and not to separate it intellectually, to set it up in opposition to life, or, worse, to play it off against life in some disgusting fashion— for that is indeed the antithesis of a healthy, noble, reasonable, and religious view.†   (source)
  • All such matters were not only foreign and of no significance to religion as such, but also inimical to it; for they were the constituents of life, or so-called health, which was to say, ultraphilistine, utter bourgeois existence—to which the religious world was ordained to be the absolute opposite, indeed the very genius of opposition.†   (source)
  • Finally, the deputies returned abashed to their constituents, pronouncing the matter too weighty to be handled, except by a council of the churches, if, indeed, it might not require a general synod.†   (source)
  • 'Will you do me the favour to present my compliments to the constituent body, and acquaint them with this circumstance?†   (source)
  • For dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening—if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.†   (source)
  • One day, in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list of the Constituent Assembly.†   (source)
  • I see; to your domestics you are 'my lord,' the journalists style you 'monsieur,' while your constituents call you 'citizen.'†   (source)
  • His only aspirations were to hold out at poker, at his club, to know the names of all the cocottes, to shake hands all round, to ply his rosy gullet with truffles and champagne, and to create uncomfortable eddies and obstructions among the constituent atoms of the American colony.†   (source)
  • Origin of the first Union—Its weakness—Congress appeals to the constituent authority—Interval of two years between this appeal and the promulgation of the new Constitution.†   (source)
  • Occasionally a member of Congress recruited his pocket by the sale of his constituents; and I was assured that public officers have often sold their country at very moderate prices.†   (source)
  • Ginger-nuts are so called because they contain ginger as one of their peculiar constituents, and the final flavoring one.†   (source)
  • What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes its only one!†   (source)
  • His own vanity is not the only stimulant which urges him on in this course, but that of his constituents, and the continual necessity of propitiating them.†   (source)
  • "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of the States where slavery exists are to regulate it is for their own consideration, under the responsibility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and justice, and to God.†   (source)
  • My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.†   (source)
  • Now these habits, opinions, customs, and convictions are precisely the constituent elements of that which I have denominated manners.†   (source)
  • Although the Americans infuse into their legislation infinitely more general ideas than the English, and although they pay much more attention than the latter people to the adjustment of the practice of affairs to theory, no political bodies in the United States have ever shown so warm an attachment to general ideas as the Constituent Assembly and the Convention in France.†   (source)
  • It—that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, terror, misunderstanding, the unknown— had facing it the Constituent Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the Marseillaise.†   (source)
  • 'I am very sorry to be here, sir,' said Mr Pugstyles; 'but your conduct, Mr Gregsbury, has rendered this deputation from your constituents imperatively necessary.'†   (source)
  • Constituents, however, do not think so.†   (source)
  • 'I am requested, sir, to express a hope,' said Mr Pugstyles, with a distant bow, 'that on receiving a requisition to that effect from a great majority of your constituents, you will not object at once to resign your seat in favour of some candidate whom they think they can better trust.'†   (source)
  • It was already on the verge of destruction, when it officially proclaimed its inability to conduct the government, and appealed to the constituent authority of the nation.†   (source)
  • In a democratic country like the United States a Representative has hardly ever a lasting hold on the minds of his constituents.†   (source)
  • If we only consider religious institutions in a purely human point of view, they may be said to derive an inexhaustible element of strength from man himself, since they belong to one of the constituent principles of human nature.†   (source)
  • In England the Parliament has an acknowledged right to modify the constitution; as, therefore, the constitution may undergo perpetual changes, it does not in reality exist; the Parliament is at once a legislative and a constituent assembly.†   (source)
  • But what ought to be said to gratify constituents is not always what ought to be said in order to serve the party to which Representatives profess to belong.†   (source)
  • As men appear greater in proportion to the littleness of the objects by which they are surrounded, it may be assumed that the opinion entertained of the delegate will be so much the higher as talents are more rare among his constituents.†   (source)
  • *w This double election rendered a majority probable, though not certain; for it was possible that as many differences might exist between the electors as between their constituents.†   (source)
  • The greater number of the Constitutions of the States assign one year for the duration of the House of Representatives, and two years for that of the Senate; so that members of the legislative body are constantly and narrowly tied down by the slightest desires of their constituents.†   (source)
  • It will therefore frequently happen that the less constituents have to expect from their representative, the more they will anticipate from him; and, however incompetent he may be, they will not fail to call upon him for signal exertions, corresponding to the rank they have conferred upon him.†   (source)
  • The Americans determined that the members of the legislature should be elected by the people immediately, and for a very brief term, in order to subject them, not only to the general convictions, but even to the daily passion, of their constituents.†   (source)
  • Thus it is natural that in democratic countries the members of political assemblies think more of their constituents than of their party, whilst in aristocracies they think more of their party than of their constituents.†   (source)
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