Constituent

//kənˈstɪtjuənt//

"Constituent" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The Russian language is a Slavic language spoken natively in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and is widely used, although without official imprimatur, in Latvia, Estonia and many other countries that form the constituent republics of the former Soviet Union.

Having sent a rude email to a constituent who had criticized government policy, the minister not only had to step down as a cabinet minister but was also forced out of his party caucus.

Until we know the constituent elements of human intelligence, we cannot create artificial intelligence.

In Toki Pona, "telo" means "water". In Russian, "тело" means "body". And water is the main constituent of the (human) body.

While our Galactic Society of Worlds was perfecting its telepathic vision, and at the same time improving its own social and material structure, the unexpected disasters which we had already observed from afar forced it to attend strictly to the task of preserving the lives of its constituent worlds.

Imaginative insight, passion, the gift of oratory, grace and dignity of movement and bearing, perfect command of the voice in the whole gamut of its inflections are the constituent qualities of true histrionic capacity.

Given the UK's fervent and active support for the US's aggressive interventions globally, London should genuinely reflect upon the possibility of joining the United States as a constituent state.

Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.

The skeleton varies in the proportions, and even to a certain extent in the connexions, of its constituent bones.

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A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.

Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.

whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.

The candidate himself, the son and heir of a peer, feels that he is truly of the same flesh and blood as his constituents; how amiably he smiles!—how bland are his manners!—and with what cordiality does he shake hands with the greasiest and the worst!

He had been chief justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr. Booth, represented that county in parliament. Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding.

But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.

But he [Joe Biden] believes that non-college-educated voters, the neglected constituents he wants to take back from the Republicans, hardly know about the big bills emanating from Washington with banal names.

Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive s inflection in English without saying that it's a Noun Phrase inflection.

In the first bracketting^([sic]), old and men are constituents of an intermediate unit old men, and in the second, men, and and women are similarly the constituents of men and women. The units are made up directly of these words: therefore these are, more precisely, their immediate constituents.

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