Sentence examples for populist ground from inspiring English sources

Another amendment, which tried to make the Soviet-style dairy programme a bit less wasteful, lost the bill some Republican votes though they opposed it on the populist ground that it would raise the price of milk in the shops.The House may now consider a new farm bill, or offer a straight vote on the version that emerged from its agriculture committee.

With the Left Party seizing the populist ground and the Christian Democratic Union led by Mrs. Merkel increasingly centrist in its approach, the Social Democratic Party "has found itself caught between two hard rocks," said John C. Kornblum, a former American ambassador to Germany who now works as a banker in Berlin.

Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb has tried to stake out populist ground to Warren's right, inveighing against a "moneyed aristocracy" but opposing higher income taxes.

But the finance minister floating the idea used to work for the Fund herself, and her decision seems to rest more on financial than populist grounds.

I should note that none of this precludes legitimate and profound criticism of the current President and his party on populist grounds.

Mr. Blair's government, smarting from recent opposition moves to seize the populist high ground, saw an opportunity to revive its Laborite credentials.

But it's too late to change the legislation: what matters now is finding the right people to lay down the institutional memory of a job that could yet be a force for good, but might all too easily turn policing into a race to the populist high ground of authoritarianism.

All of this has made it easy for McCaskill to seize the populist high ground, and she's done just that.

Progressives have seen the electoral consequences of the tea-party movement's successful occupation of the populist low-ground, and they'd like to occupy it for a little while, too, perhaps to similar electoral effect.

The populist parties gaining ground in Europe are by varying degrees violent, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, sexist, anti-democratic, extremist, and racist.

Mr. Monti warned repeatedly last year that anti-European populists would gain ground in the south unless the euro zone did more to support his efforts and those of the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, by bringing borrowing costs down.