Sentence examples for centrist nation from inspiring English sources

He readily acknowledges that he thinks the United States "dodged a bullet in 2012," and that in re-electing Barack Obama and rejecting the Republicans' "extremist" views, America reaffirmed its identity as an essentially "centrist nation".

It has won a huge audience in a centrist nation where a majority favor stricter gun control and 80percentthinknk abortion should be sometimes or always legal, according to recent Gallup and CNN/USA Today polls.

Mr. Uribe's rising fortunes are also significant because Colombia has in the recent past been a centrist nation, rejecting right-wing and left-wing candidates, especially those who, like Mr. Uribe, run outside the two-party system.

The election takes place with the centrist state suffering from the recession and its wake and voters divided over the direction of the nation.

May's Davos speech largely played up her soft, "centrist" one-nation side: the side that, when she first came to power, tricked broadsheet hacks into thinking she was a "safe pair of hands".

Fine Gael, ( Irish: "Irish Race" or "Gaelic Nation") centrist political party that has provided the major political opposition to the Fianna Fáil party in Ireland.

Whether that would be a chunk of the euro-frothing right joining Ukip in despair at the lack of an immediate referendum, or a mass of centrists leaving to form a One-Nation centrist party in despair at the growing dominance of the nutters, feels irrelevant.

Instead there seems to be a broad, but vague, consensus that he is a one-nation centrist leader in the Harold Macmillan mould, while someone called "Clegg" has tripled the fees for students and a figure known as "Lansley" leads a reckless revolution in the NHS.

Many have argued that Mr. Bush, having lost the popular vote and won Florida (if he has) in a way that leaves his legitimacy in doubt, will try to calm the nation with centrist policies.

Via David Dayen, the favored candidate of those who believe we need a smart centrist to solve our nation's problems reveals himself to be completely ignorant about the causes of our economic crisis, someone who just swallows right-wing propaganda whole: "I hear your complaints," Bloomberg said.

Eagle and a host of other shadow cabinet ministers including Benn and the deputy leader, Tom Watson, believe that supporting Trident renewal is a vital part of assuring centrist voters that the nation's security would be safe in Labour's hands.