Sentence examples for socialist shift from inspiring English sources

If the on-the-ground experience of socialism can vary so much in South America, what would a socialist shift look like in the US?

Since the early 1990s, as a nominally socialist regime shifted to free-market authoritarianism, the Chinese Communist Party has turned to nationalism as a playing card to maintain its control.

In the 20th century, Russian feminists, inspired by socialist doctrine, shifted their focus from philanthropic works to organizing among peasants and factory workers.

Will a win for Hollande and the Socialists mean a shift in the relationship between France and the United States?

While Lanotte, a Flemish socialist, doubts it will shift the current political dynamic, he says the football has nonetheless already changed attitudes in one significant area: change how Belgians see minorities.

On Monday, authorities launched a new, supply-and-demand-based exchange system for the dollar, in what some analysts see as a radical shift from socialist policy and an admission that currency controls enacted by Hugo Chávez more than a decade ago — which pegged the bolivar, the local currency, to the U.S. dollar, and limited exchange — have failed.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking in Berlin on Monday, rejected the notion that Europe was on the brink of a major policy shift after Socialist Francois Hollande defeated her fellow conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Greek voters punished ruling parties who slashed spending to secure a foreign bailout.

In a major shift, the Socialists, who dominated for decades and were in power when Greece asked for foreign aid in 2010, appeared to have only 14 percent of the vote, or 42 seats — down significantly from their 44 percent share in 2009.

The votes attracted by the latter two parties – newcomers to a political scene that has been dominated for decades by the conservatives and the socialists – revealed a profound shift among an electorate that has been buffeted by Spain's economic crisis and angered by a series of corruption scandals that have engulfed the PP in recent years.

The latest Mr Papandreou to become prime minister is a moderate socialist who has worked to shift the party towards the centre, in spite of opposition from hardline nationalists.

City planners have shifted from a socialist vision of liberalism to a yuppified one, rooting out squatters and shrinking the red-light district while courting multinational corporations with favourable tax conditions.