Further, vocal local constituencies can block or slow permitting by pointing to visual impact, environmental, and perceived health concerns.

Without personal experience to guide him, Romney is catering to the most vocal constituencies in the national-security wing of the GOP.

The art of Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), although never lacking for a strong and vocal constituency, remains poorly known by a large part of the art public.

AIDS was a sudden plague, very visible in its choice of victims, and it has a vocal constituency in rich countries.

And now an increasingly vocal constituency is saying that maybe the world has changed.

Ms. Ireland said her group was aware of the city's vocal political constituencies.

These inside-the-Beltway issues and their small, but vocal, constituencies make this election Bill Clinton's to lose.

The legislation splits hunters and environmentalists, two vocal constituencies who often share common goals and who have both supported the wildlife refuge system in the past.

Conservationists sided with Pinchot, and Taft alienated yet another vocal constituency.

The growing number of apartment owners who now receive tax bills directly (as opposed to renters) has established an important and vocal constituency for implementing tax rate changes.