Sentence examples for centrist from from inspiring English sources

"If Kerry was a centrist from the Midwest or South, the next six or eight months would be intense.

The junior senator for New York is following exactly the same strategy as the former governor of Texas—exploiting her celebrity to vault over the pander-fest of the party primary and instead run as a centrist from the beginning.

It may seem surprising that the job of taking back the House — Democrats need 25 seats to do so — has fallen not to a bloodthirsty partisan, but to the easygoing Mr. Israel: an unassuming centrist from Long Island who once voted with President George W. Bush nearly half of the time and has barely made a mark after a decade in Congress.

Mr. Lieberman, a centrist from Connecticut who made history as the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a major party, delayed announcing that he was entering the 2004 presidential race until last January, when he was certain Mr. Gore was not running again.

Senator Bob Graham -- really running for V.P.? He said he was a centrist, "from the electable wing of the Democratic Party" -- a play on Dean's leftist "Democratic wing" -- and he stressed that only Democratic Southerners (L.B.J., Carter, Clinton) have won recently.

The senator, a centrist from Maine who is no stranger to breaking with her party on policy, said she was still working out the answer, though she said the August recess had led her to believe that Congress might have to scale back its health care expectations.

They brushed aside objections from an unusual coalition of Tea Party activists, liberals and centrists from both parties.

The Egyptian centrists from Tahrir Square now need to show that they can form parties to get good stuff done.

These are tough centrists from the Washington-Wall Street axis who would be heroes in any crisis.

Nonetheless, the concerns that briefly brought together liberals, Tea Party members and longtime centrists from both parties should send a message to the White House and the Senate.

Supporters included three Republican centrists from the Northeast, Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Susan Collins of Maine and Olympia J. Snowe, also of Maine.