Sentence examples for centrist state from inspiring English sources
In other words, being a swinging or centrist state causes better governance.
Hugo Chávez was re-elected as president of Venezuela, beating Henrique Capriles, a centrist state governor, by 55% to 44%.
After years of internal divisions and political irrelevance, they held a primary and united around Mr Capriles, a centrist state governor.
He was elected to the Senate in 1994, the first Republican in more than two decades to take a seat from that centrist state.
The retirement of Representative Ralph Regula after 18 terms presented an opening for Mr. Boccieri, a centrist state senator who had been a minor-league outfielder and an Air Force Reserve pilot with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Carney, a moderate from a centrist state, said that during the first few months of his tenure here he "had been trying to find someone on the other side to talk to".
"Connecticut is a centrist moderate state, and we respect independence a great deal," said Mr. Shays, who backed Mr. Bush in 2000.
Other governors, in more centrist states, made less headway this year in overcoming opposition generated by efforts to contain health costs and to raise the revenues needed to subsidize premiums.
Japan has continued to act as an ethno-centrist state with tight border and immigration controls.
In the area of immigration policies it was shown that even though Germany evolved from an ethno-centrist state to a country of immigration with open borders it has continued to promote essentialist notions of German lead culture (i.e. subscribe to the Christian roots of European civilization).
Lyle Larson, a centrist Republican state representative from San Antonio, told me, "Some of the most egregious violations are in the governor's office.
