Sentence examples for centrist style from inspiring English sources

Democrats sense a parallel to their own recent history when an increasingly liberal party seen as losing touch with mainstream America was defeated in three consecutive presidential elections, in 1980 , 1984 and 1988 before Bill Clinton, who practiced a centrist style of politics, won two terms.

A one-time $39 splurge for one bottle each from the '97 vintage for an experimental tasting will illustrate a simple style; a centrist style that's partly simple, partly woody and complex; and a densely oaky (but in this case agreeable) style.

Although he seems unlikely to embrace the "radical centrist" styling of Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va)., McDonnell could find himself in a position similar to the popular former governor's, whose business background alienates him from some elements of his own party, said Bob Holsworth, a longtime Richmond political observer.

The juxtaposition made clearer than ever the more centrist governing style Mr. Obama has adopted since his party's big losses in November and his recapture-the-middle strategy for winning a second term.

But his "heir to Blair" approach — a self-conscious imitation of the centrist political style of Tony Blair, the Labour prime minister for 10 years until 2007 — did not always sit easily with the Conservative heartland.

The founders of Americans Elect evidently hope to bring forward a centrist, good-government-style ticket.

One of his early decisions as prime minister was to scrap Delhi's Planning Commission, a relic of Soviet-style centrist policymaking.

EVER since Joe Manchin, an old-style centrist Democrat from West Virginia, arrived in the Senate in 2010, he found himself puzzled by colleagues who adore the institution, when its partisan paralysis drives him to despair.

Specter is an old-style centrist, one of the last of an aging and embattled breed of Republican moderates in a party that has moved steadily to the right in recent years.

(His numbers rose shortly afterward). But he continued to govern as a Penn-style "centrist," leading his party to another stunning set of midterm losses in 2014.

But in many ways he's still an '80s and '90s-style "centrist" Democrat, with all the attendant forms of blindness that conveys.