Quotes about constituent (16 Quotes)


    The situation is not an alarming one. It is a concern that we have a constituent in the groundwater that should not be there, but we don't see this as a large-spread contamination. We believe it is in a small area that we're able to control and do corrective action.


    The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

    Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.





    Roles of the various university constituent groups are either ill- or undefined, the By-Laws of the Board of Trustees are replete with implied invitations to conflict and micro-management, and the Presidency is effectively compromised. In such circumstances, a kind of anarchy invariably becomes the order of the day.

    As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism all meld together to provide nurturance. Try to separate the various aspects into their constituent parts grant any one of them the status of fundamental gardening definition and one soon skews the entire process. Put them back together again in the service of the twoway street called nurturance, and we express the state of grace called gardening.

    Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

    I have used a political action committee . . . to support Democratic candidates and good causes, and to cover political expenses of mine that are not related to a campaign or to constituent services, and are not appropriate to charge to taxpayers.

    The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.



    I have always believed that public service is a noble calling. Each day I served in the Assembly confirmed my belief. I am confident my constituents will send to the Assembly another representative who hears that call. In the meantime, it is my intention to wrap up my remaining constituent cases by March 21 so that I can then devote my full attention to my wife and three young children.

    People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.



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