Sentence examples for being leftist from inspiring English sources
About 5,000 people suspected of being leftist dissidents were held at the clandestine detention center.
The West Coast association, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, is known for being leftist and active in politics.
15 civilians accused of being leftist supporters of the FARC were murdered by the AUC paramilitary group with support from members of the Colombian Army (Revista Semana 2008).
DAVID GREGORY: Although the President took on this idea of it being leftist policies on health care, indicating that it was in fact a move to the center and cost containment that cost him some of the support among within his own party.
"They were leftist, but they were bourgeois, not militant".
They are leftist politicians whose anti-corruption platform brought them surging to power.
"His ideas are leftist," sniffed Noël Pantalacci, the president of the Parti Bonapartiste.
At the stadium no one cares who is leftist or rightist".
The Bush administration insists expression of such fears is leftist saber-rattling.
The other opposing tendency was leftist: it continued to view any U.S. military action as imperialist.
A few weeks ago a Republican congressman, on the floor of the House, charged that Public Broadcasting was leftist.
