Sentence examples for leftists for the from inspiring English sources

Some gay conservatives even blame the leftists for the enduring image of homosexual men in the minds of some people as effeminate, louche, odd-balls who wear leather jockstraps.A swing to the rightSuch charges are to be found in "Beyond Queer", a series of essays edited by Bruce Bawer (Free Press; $25).

Kong Weidong, vice secretary of the International Confucius Descendants Reunion Association, who says he is a 75th-generation descendant of the sage, blamed powerful "leftists" for orchestrating the statue's removal.

He switched parties as his views were too leftist for the Liberals, declaring "They got rather nasty with me and wouldn't give me a fair go, so I resigned and joined the Labor Party".

He also set in motion investigations and trials that led to the jailing of military leaders and some leftists for crimes during the "dirty war" of the 1970s.

With Fonda's seed money, he knitted together a feisty statewide campaign, but he found himself attacked by some leftists for working within the system.

They were both leftists, radicals for the time.

"There have been a lot of contradictory statements regarding the threat the leftists represent for the eurozone," he added.

In the 2012 election, leftists voted for the largest centre-left party, Labour (PvdA), in opposition to austerity and the dismantling of the welfare state.

Since then, an uneasy peace has settled on the southern colonial city, after months of civil strife between the government and leftists calling for the governor to resign.

By republicans, she was referring to Spanish leftists nostalgic for the Spanish republic that was defeated by Franco in 1939.

After death threats were issued against his friend Salman Rushdie in 1989 following allegations about the sacrilegious nature of Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses (1988)—Hitchens publicly defended him, citing his right to freedom of expression and excoriating fellow leftists for failing to do the same.