Sentence examples for centrist cost from inspiring English sources

When modern Democrats are centrist, Cost judges them to be more closely attuned to the public interest; when they are more liberal, he finds them to have fallen prey to clientelism.

By staying above the fray, Obama preserved his image as a centrist — but at considerable cost.

The commentariat's preferred solution: a Swiss Army knife speech that will patch the differences between liberal and centrist Democrats, slice the cost of his program and put a cork on the death panel talk and other rumor-mongering, along with 23 other things.

That might help his centrist image but it could cost his coalition badly needed leftist votes in some regions.

So those were the options as of last week: A massive policy giveaway that won Obama some centrist credibility at immense substantive cost, or else let the economy get killed.

For months, centrist Democrats have been saying that cost containment was one of their biggest priorities, but they had not done much to help the cause.

On cost control, the bill is similarly centrist.

The first appointment to his economic team looks set to be Peter Orszag, a brainy centrist who is particularly concerned about the exploding cost of entitlements.

The cost of loyalty — reconciling his own centrist, pragmatic instincts with the demands of a conservative party — seems to weigh on him.

The consumerist Western Europe of the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-sixties, the Europe of cars and refrigerators, generous welfare benefits and centrist politics, was purchased at a terrible moral cost, and no one wanted to think about the bill.

While the leftwing provincial government commits to completing the city's ring road (at astronomical costs), Nenshi pushes forward with pragmatic centrist plans for new LRT and Bus Rapid Transit BRTT) lines.