Sentence examples for leftist members from inspiring English sources

Even some centrist and leftist members of the Knesset objected.

Like the Vatican, his own Christian Democrats opposed the legislation, while leftist members of the coalition demanded it.

Not a natural linguist, Peter had as his primary aim liaising clandestinely with leftist members of Charter 77 and offering support for their struggle.

What "The Lawrence Summers Mess" (Editorial Observer, Feb. 28) illustrates is the threat to academic freedom posed by politically correct (meaning leftist) members of university faculties.

The leftist members of the Peronist youth league join Ignacio, but their discipline is, initially, worse than that of a group of raw Cub Scouts.

It was alleged that as Argentina's most senior Jesuit, Father Bergoglio had betrayed two leftist members of the order, allowing them to be arrested and tortured by the dictators who took power in 1976.

"This base is a provocation to all of the irregular forces in Colombia," Antonio Posso, an influential leftist member of Congress, said in an interview in Quito, the capital.

Subhi Hadidi, a leftist member of the opposition who fled Syria in the late eighties, told me, "Sattouf is faithful to what he sees, and he doesn't beautify reality".

Yossi Beilin, for example, who left politics in 2008 after years as a leftist member of Parliament and government minister, said Friday that the Obama administration was wrong to set a one-year goal without consequences.

"This is not a swipe at the armed forces, but a historic and courageous step that will make military expenditures transparent for the first time," said Antonio Posso, a leftist member of Congress and main sponsor of the legislation.

At the time, in January, Avshalom Vilan, then a leftist member of Parliament, accused the rabbi of having "turned the Israeli military's activity from fighting out of necessity into a holy war".