Sentence examples for mainstream left from inspiring English sources

In simultaneous elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony in January, the party earned just 0.9percentand1.5percentcent of the vote, while the surging far-left — but increasingly mainstream — Left Party leapt over the 5 percent hurdle for representation in the state Parliaments in all three places.

The vote exposed "a huge gap between the mainstream left and the radical secular left" as Gianluca Mezzofiore, a journalist from Bologna, put it.Between the extremes of piety and secularism, many Italians are somewhere in between, torn between affection for the Catholic church and exasperation with its failings.

The mainstream left was weakened by the rise of the hard left.

If only the mainstream left acted the same way!

See articleA grand-coalition government of the mainstream left and right took office in Austria.

The mainstream left was beholden to its militants, union friends and class warriors.

This doesn't surprise me - her outline programme has a largely mainstream left-of-centre feel.

All over Europe, whether it is the Socialists in France or Labor in Great Britain, mainstream left-wing parties have appeared to struggle of late.

(TED is generally aligned with mainstream left-of-center views, but any policy positions it leans toward tend to be framed in terms of broad and undeniable goods: education, environmental sustainability, equal rights).

But she is all the while leaning on old-style socialist policies that have been ditched by almost every other mainstream left-wing party in Europe.The contradiction was exposed last weekend in a packed conference hall outside Paris, where Ms Royal finally unveiled her "presidential pact".

Once my trust in the mainstream intellectual establishment was broken, I became depressed for two years as I re-evaluated the entire mainstream left-liberal worldview.