Sentence examples for centrist that from inspiring English sources

Rockefeller's legacy lives on mostly as a reminder of something lost: like an anthropological curiosity, "Rockefeller Republican" is the label attached to a breed of East-Coast gentry centrist that has no home in today's conservative movement.

And Representative Marge Roukema, the dean of the state's Congressional delegation, is so much of a centrist that she regularly has to knock down a challenger from the right before she can run again every two years.

There is another view of her years in the Senate, one suggested by a few associates who have grown wary of Clinton the politician: that she's learned the lessons of the nineties all too well and become the same careful centrist that electoral setbacks led her husband to become.

It's as if the media collectively pauses a moment to say, Actually, the lazy Beltway media terms like "centrist" that we use to describe the values of people in safe six-figure salaries near the locus of American power are actually highly unrepresentative of the average American's interests.

"Just what evidence do you have," Sowell replied when I asked, shortly before the election, whether he considered Obama a centrist, "that he's anything but a hard-left ideologue?" The second implication?

Throughout the 2008 campaign Silicon Valley Obama supporters told me that Obama is really an economic centrist, that I should forget his liberal Senate record and career as a community activist, as well as his grounding in Chicago-style hard-nosed politics.

The simple dream of centrists, that somehow a hung parliament would produce the golden chance of securing a path to power, was not going to happen.

The Blue and White alliance, the political centrists that had posed the greatest threat to Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party, conceded the election on Wednesday evening, acknowledging that it did not have the votes to take control of the government.

Suozzi was a prominent member The Problem Solvers, a bipartisan group of centrists that tried to pull Pelosi to the right during her campaign to become speaker.

From the perspectives of mainstream centrists, that is.

"We're a long way from talking about a fatal blow, but the vote is indeed a wake-up call to the centrists that they have to make a better case for Europe," Berman said.