Sentence examples for support to left from inspiring English sources
Historically, haredi parties exploited divisions over Israel's territorial future to become free-agent kingmakers, selling their support to left- or right-leaning governing coalitions in exchange for massive communal subsidies.
Women tended to vote more for conservative parties in the 1970s, while in the new millennium they have given higher support to left parties.
Even in the less baleful economic conditions of Germany, Angela Merkel's grand coalition with the Social Democrats is leaking support to both left and right — including to the benefit of the Left party, which is about to deliver the country's first socialist regional premier since reunification.
And, though their approach was hardly parliamentarist, many students lent tactical support to the left party Québec Solidaire in the federal elections, which helped shift the balance of forces in parliament to the left; more so than the far-from-impressive vote for the winning Quebec nationalist party would have.
Mr Kirchner has sought support to the left of his party.
If he'd looked up he would have seen Qu Bo in support to his left, but he instead hits a tired shot which Lonnis saves well.
New Democracy and the main opposition socialist party, Pasok, lost support to the left and extreme right in the vote on Sunday, after public anger over the handling of deadly forest fires last month.
In September 1965 the party lent its support to other left-wing parties to form the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (Fédération de la Gauche Démocrate et Socialiste).
The Social Democrats, meanwhile, are losing support to smaller left-wing parties, though not enough to dethrone it as the left's leader.
Further, if this coalition had broken apart over the withdrawal plan, Mr. Sharon could have turned for support to the left-of-center Labor Party.
But leaders of those parties will have to weigh whether they will have more influence over the plan's realization by staying, or by leaving and watching Mr. Sharon inevitably turn for support to the left-leaning Labor Party.
