Sentence examples for to be centrist from inspiring English sources

Nidaa Tounes claims to be centrist, but opposition to Islamists is part of its raison d'être.

The Ownership Society idea allows Bush to be centrist and conservative at the same time.

Labor voters have generally considered Labor to be centrist with a small move to the left from 2001 to 2013.

The problem, though, is that it's a little odd for an incumbent to try to win re-election by promising to be centrist and mainstream and moderate in his second term.

But this also means that an anti-Bloombergist politics — populist rather than technocratic, more culturally conservative but also less reflexively pro-rich — would have an equally plausible claim to be centrist.

Trotsky considered those organisations to be centrist.

Among the 14 judges on the FISA court or its review panel, two others were Democratic appointees, and both are also considered to be centrists or conservative-leaning.

Voters of all stripes are angry and cynical about the political establishment in this country, and the politicians and pundits who claim to be centrists have all too often simply become flag carriers for the corporate lobbyists who fund their campaigns.

How can it be "centrist" to defeat the public option, which was supported by 51% of Republicans and a decisive majority of all voters?

How can it be "centrist" to oppose tighter bank regulations when a poll taken earlier this year showed that 69% of voters (and 56% of Republicans) support them?

What the country needs, according to Mr. Bloomberg, is "centrist solutions to our toughest economic problems".