Sentence examples for socialist convictions from inspiring English sources

She steered him away from his early Conservative Party enthusiasm to her socialist convictions.

Asked about his radical socialist convictions, he somewhat evasively talks of a rightward shift in past ANC policy documents.

It was adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play "Candida," about an officious minister with Socialist convictions, his ebullient wife and a dreamy, dangerous young man who idolizes her.

Some opposition politicians took to Twitter suggesting that he should have the courage of his socialist convictions and retire on his 60th birthday.

She is able one moment to pick holes in the arguments of those who have accused Castro of abusing human rights, while admitting that, had she been born in Cuba, she would probably not "have had the courage of my socialist convictions... at the cost of my freedom to write and travel".

In 1980 the idealistic socialist convictions of her youth, long undermined by the regime's hypocrisy, finally crystallised into ardent opposition.She differed from cultured dissidents elsewhere in the communist world: it was not her work that angered the authorities, but the authorities that angered her.

Surrealism in particular attracted him, because its freedom from the constraints of old-style realism made possible a liberated vision that pointed his own socialist, republican convictions.

The Beautiful Tree misleads the reader – Tooley insists this was unintentional and blames the editors – into thinking that, in 2000, he was still a socialist by conviction who had somehow drifted into working for the World Bank and was converted in Hyderabad to the glories of private education.

"Hugo Chavez was a socialist out of conviction and leaves a divided country behind.

Mr Ortega, who pays lip-service to socialist rhetoric with barely more conviction than he does to the Catholic God, is converting Nicaragua into a banana caricature of that cruel place Orwell envisioned where "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

In the early and middle part of the 20th century, such a conviction made a person a socialist.