Sentences with word «leftward»

I'm not for one moment suggesting the Theresa May means any of this, or that Owen Smith means any of this, but surely it must be recognised that the fact that the Tory Prime Minister and the right - wing challenger for the Labour leadership feel it politically necessary to engage in such «progressive» sounding rhetoric is clear evidence of a significant leftward shift in mainstream political discourse.

But Teachout, who ran for Congress last year against Rep. John Faso, represents the party's increasingly leftward tilt in both policy and its organizing politics.

But beginning in the mid «1990s, he began to move leftward on the political spectrum.

But Cuomo has been making (another) leftward lean of late, championing key WFP issues like a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and Paid Family Leave, leading party leaders to take some credit for their role in pushing the Democrats — not just in New York, but across the nation — to the left.

Statewide the Party has forged strong links to the Republicans and Democrats of compatible views and has helped prevent a complete leftward drift of state government.

Even with Corbyn moving his party leftwards on many fronts I am reminded of an interview with Neil Kinnock in 1988 when he was seeking to change his party's policy on defence.

Until his elevation to the Assembly's top job, he was an «obscure assemblyman,» «soft - spoken and a political moderate with leftward leanings.»

Also, patients with schizophrenia demonstrated a specific leftward asymmetry for globus pallidus volume.

Most notably, Populorum Progressio is often mentioned as an outlier in leftward direction.

Higher education today gives analysts, policymakers, and critics so much to fret about — cost, free speech, leftward lurching faculty, politically trendy majors — that we haven't been paying nearly enough heed to the quality and value of the product itself.

But simply opposing Trump isn't enough for some Democrats, who have sought to turn the party leftward with the Sanders platform.

Our analysis of Stephen Twigg's recent speech on education (cleared by the party hierarchy, remember) suggests that those who care about public services - from education to health - should think about dropping the hopeful belief that Labour policy makers can be convinced or that the party can be pulled leftward from within (or even from without).

Downward and leftward movements reduce both median retirement costs, as well as worst - case retirement costs.

«Hillary may not implode, but if she does, Andrew is already making course corrections to position himself more favorably to the national Democrats in light of the rapid leftward turn of the grass roots,» said the source.

At an unrelated press conference today, Mr. de Blasio was even more blunt: he declared that he will use his «bully pulpit» to make the presidential race about his pet issue, income inequality, and nudge the candidates leftward as much as possible.

It's worth noting he has already shown the intention to shift leftward for this campaign.

A Japanese research group found that patients with schizophrenia demonstrated a specific leftward volumetric asymmetry for the globus pallidus, one of the basal ganglia of the brain.

For example, Inaba et al. (2013) measured movements and ground reaction forces while subjects performed leftward side - steps for nine different distances from 20 — 100 % of their body height.

Greenberg says the numbers indicate unrest among the most leftward leaning democrats.

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party.

* It's telling of the modern Liberals» more leftward tilt that Trudeau refers to the anti-pipeline side, rather than the pro- side, as his friends.

(The Liberals, with Justin Trudeau and a decidedly leftward shift, easily snuffed out those chances, reducing the 95 - member caucus to 44).

He is no doubt right that, in authoritative Jewish tradition, tikkun olam refers to the right ordering of the Jewish community, and not, as the very leftward magazine called Tikkun would have it, to a generalized command to «build a better world.»

And just on proportional representation for Westminster - wouldn't that usher in a whole new culture where the centre of gravity in politics and the media would be moved slightly leftwards, so that politicians didn't have to in election campaigns play to marginal seats and the rightwing press.

ALBANY — In a «60 Minutes» profile that aired Sunday evening, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's tried to explain the significant leftward shifts in her positions on gun control and immigration that followed her 2009 appointment to the Senate.

At other times it travels leftward from the settingsun, putting it low in the sky and forcing us to view it through theobscuring atmosphere.

Also, the group found that patients with schizophrenia demonstrated a specific leftward volumetric asymmetry for the globus pallidus.

Slide the gear selector lever leftward into the + / - gate and it goes into S (Sport) mode.

De Blasio helped broker the agreement, and since his election last year has pulled Democratic politics leftward from the course set by Governor Andrew Cuomo, a relative centrist who has gone out of his way to work with Skelos and the Republicans.

At this point, a Williams bid for the speakership would count on the Council continuing along the same leftward trajectory it set out on in 2013.

Her trip leftward began when she became a senator and found herself representing a state dominated by the liberal politics of New York City and some of its suburbs.

A careful analysis of his tenure shows that Scalia was almost never the most conservative justice on the court, and in fact moved leftward during the second half of his 30 years on the bench.

Mr. Cuomo's embrace of the millionaires» tax comes after years of cutting other types of taxes — including those on businesses and in manufacturing — and was coupled with a plan to slice rates on the middle class, part of a recent leftward tilt that has prompted speculation about his future plans.

Ball points to the Ford Foundation as one example of a major charity that, in her view, drifted leftward over time and away from the ideals of man who started it, industrialist Edsel Ford.

The United Church, whose politics lean sharply leftward, is demonstrating its good faith by demonstrating it has little faith in its clergy.

Thomas Frank kindles enthusiasm in the most leftward ranks of Democrats, but he hardly represents the party's vital center.

Some denominations adopted guidelines (like the Methodists), but most of those movements declined as mainline denominations moved leftward theologically.

Many religious leaders and thinkers combined these ostensibly rightward and leftward commitments in creative ways.

♦ An Eleanor Kleinhans of Bernardsville, NJ, writes the very leftward Christianity and Crisis to thank the editors for an article bashing U.S. imperialism.

This site traffics in mostly software specialists (more than polticos) and it slants leftward on most issues.

As was said in the opening paragraph of this series, a well - rehearsed interpretation of UKIP is that they are a grouping to the right of the current Conservative party, dissatisfied with the old party's failure to stand up to Europe and its perceived leftwards shift under Cameron.

For his part, Smith made it clear that he would not have any hesitation looking leftwards in a bid to win over Corbyn supporters.

This is another reason why the Corbyn critique isn't going to cut through in any meaningful way, and why the Conservatives should stop obsessing about a supposed leftward shift.

The Republicans allowed Cuomo to keep a lid on damaging taxes that could hurt him in the suburbs, while Cuomo simultaneously huddled up to IDC Leader Jeff Klein and his fellow renegade Democrats on progressive initiatives like the $ 15 minimum wage and Paid Family Leave to pull those same Republicans leftward.

We need mainstream politicians who deliberately want to shift the overton window leftwards.