Sentence examples for centrist line from inspiring English sources

Brown was walking his habitual centrist line.

"Like most recent Democratic politicians, Obama nodded in a progressive direction while campaigning but toed a more centrist line when it came time to govern".

I bumped into Hisham Akkam, one of the steering committee members of the Justice Party, which aims to run a centrist line between liberal and Islamist, promoting neutral technocratic solutions.

As judges and journalists investigated the scandals the resulting tension was called "la crispación".Its prime victim proved to be the Socialist government led by Felipe Gonzalez, a former lawyer who had persuaded the Spanish Socialist Workers Partyy (PSOE) to adopt a more centrist line.

Brown, who previously governed California from 1975 to 1983, has toed a centrist line since taking the helm again in 2011.

As Lula's first finance minister he was credited with reinventing the former trade-unionist along more centrist lines and persuading him of the merits of fiscal responsibility.

He was also known to disagree with the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, on some important issues, generally taking a more centrist, New Labour line.

While Mr. Simitis's socialist party, Pasok, has shed much of the left-wing populism of the past and toed a more centrist, pro-European line, along with the opposition party, the Greek Orthodox Church has filled the vacuum.

"His image has been enhanced on the left, and that was the problem before," Bonnet said of the mood of mistrust created when Hollande in early 2014 adopted a more centrist, pro-business line than that taken during his 2012 campaign.

Mr. Rutelli wants to project himself as a "third way" centrist along the lines of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.

At this point, the Senate is deliberating over its second iteration of Obamacare repeal that has been ever-so-slightly modified to pick up the support of both centrist and hard-line conservative skeptics.