What is "constituents"

Usage examples of "constituents".

Whether the appropriating agent be cell or nucleus, or a structureless solid like the intercellular substance of cartilage, the fact of its presence determines the separation of its proper constituents from the circulating fluid, so that even when we are wounded bone is replaced by bone, skin by skin, and nerve by nerve.

Under fire from angry constituents, legislators are fumbling around with a sham responsea whopping three-day waiting period.

Jefferson proposed that members of Congress adjourn at once and go home to consult their constituents on the great crisis.

The blood cells may be too few in number or the oxygencarrying red constituents of the blood cells may be deficient.

The teeth, no less than bones, flesh and sinews, must be supplied with their requisite inorganic constituents if decay is to be prevented and a healthy state preserved.

But when it comes to substances alien to the healthy system, which never belong to it as normal constituents, the case is very different.

He invited them to join him in a political adventure, to build for a better world and in particular for a better world for the constituents of Hoopwestern.

Amongst the Representatives there were several Constituents, and at their head Bastide.

Wilson was not to persuade this fairly intelligent Massachusetts politician to abandon the opinion of most of his constituents, but to lay the groundwork for his toleration of opposing views later.

The phenomena of isomerism, or identity of composition and proportions of constituents with difference of qualities, and of isomorphism, or identity of form in crystals which have one element substituted for another, were equally surprises to science.

All I can say is that they weren't dealing with a trusted and proven benevolent tyranny: and since I knew he meant me the opposite of harm, I took the envelope of money and spent it in the Brighton shops on clothes I thought his constituents would have voted for if they'd been judging a candidate by his teenage son's appearance.

Biair's purpose in arguing with Wilson was not to persuade this fairly intelligent Massachusetts politician to abandon the opinion of most of his constituents, but to lay the groundwork for his toleration of opposing views later.