Sentence examples for centrist figures from inspiring English sources
While extremist or fringe movements might emerge in other countries, American political culture, by contrast, would be dominated by sensible centrist figures, like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
It has led to the election of sensible centrist figures in Asia like Narendra Modi in India (May 2014), Joko Widodo in Indonesia (July 2014) and Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore (September 2015).
Mirvis is a highly able and likable centrist figure.
The state's chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, is a moderate, centrist figure whom some suggest could one day lead the BJP nationally, if there were ever a vacancy.
If any of them run, they would probably campaign to the left of Clinton, a centrist figure whose hawkish foreign policy is resented by some in the party.
The cleric, who has risen from being a centrist figure to the country's president-elect, was supported by Iran's battered reformist movement.
Several years later, a much more centrist figure, President Jimmy Carter, would lament the "inordinate fear of Communism" that he said dominated public discussion of foreign policy.
Insiders suggest the Queen Mother, who died in 2002, was much more of an admirer of the Conservative Prime Minister's politics than the Queen, a more consensual and centrist figure by instinct.
If and when this happens it has been agreed that the new minister will be a member of neither the DUP nor Sinn Fein, but instead be a centrist figure acceptable to both.
British officials had resigned themselves to BP overshadowing some of Cameron's efforts to forge a strong personal relationship with Obama and start making a political mark in Washington as a much needed new substantial centrist figure from Europe.
The British political figures he speaks well of are David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Party prime minister; the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was in his time a centrist figure; and Roy Jenkins, a Labour politician who left the party because it had moved too far left.
