Sentence examples for rightward trend from inspiring English sources

The only region to buck the rightward trend was Paris itself, where the Socialists registered gains.

Obama resisted the national rightward trend of the mid-nineties in other small ways.

Nevertheless, his conservative positions in this predominately social democratic province appeared to reflect a rightward trend among young voters more interested in mortgage payments than in independence.

That rightward trend, some commentators said, could have a more fundamental effect on the campaign dynamic, leaving some centrist Likud voters shopping for alternatives.

My point is, particularly in the wake of Trump, the Labour party has to offer resistance to a general rightward trend on race and immigration because I think it could be a downward spiral.

Had the Israeli ambassador reported to his Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Gerald Kaufman had recalled in the Commons last week her worry about the "rightward" trend in Israel's politics and her tacit advice to its citizens to vote Labour in the late 1980s?

The British Social Attitudes survey showed leftward as well as rightward trends during the 80s; her share of the vote at general elections was middling by postwar standards; and her iron majorities were in large part the products of splits and weaknesses among her opponents.

For that reason some experienced observers of European politics say the rightward drift by the Dutch may be more important as a harbinger of trends on the Continent than for its practical impact.

It will be a rightward drift".

The rightward movement of these triangles indicates rising drilling activity.

Many Liberals believe that Canada is shifting rightward, joining a trend that has marked American and British politics in recent years.