Sentence examples for a leftward drift from inspiring English sources

Conservative Christian leaders in Washington acknowledge a "leftward drift" among evangelicals, said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and the movement's chief advocate in Washington.

Pricing the past The last laugh Reprints Related items Bagehot: The last laughSep 17th 2009 Teaching assistants: Unintended consequencesSep 10th 2009All this may herald a leftward drift as dramatic as the last time Labour entered opposition in 1979.

Mr. Gingrich sounds the alarm about a leftward drift "in our newsrooms; a drift in our colleges and universities; a drift with our judges; and a drift among elected politicians".

"Specifically," he and his colleagues reported, "the firing rate of a neuron associated with a leftward movement was a linear function of the probability that the leftward movement would yield the juice reward".

Others hoped that the votes could stall what they called Colorado's leftward drift — a shift exemplified by recent votes on gun control, tuition benefits for illegal immigrants and civil unions for same-sex couples.

But the leftward drift of a swing justice can make a big difference, as in the cases of Justice O'Connor and the court's current fulcrum, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

The conventional view is that his leftward drift was a bitter disappointment to his sponsors.

Hu Deping, a reform-minded former government official who has met Mr. Xi, recently issued a public warning about the leftward drift.

Second, the Republican Party will, over time, struggle to develop a coherent moral stance that does not conflict with the leftward drift, both in values and behavior, of the electorate.

Instead of looking like a loser, he could recast himself as another conservative victim, and, alongside the new grassroots Republican movement, as a force that had arrived to correct the party's errant leftward drift.

Mr. Pence's ties to the Kochs and their political work reach back to Mr. Bush's presidency, when the billionaire brothers and a handful of like-minded executives lamented what they considered the president's leftward drift.