shift to the left in a sentence
Examples
- But sensing just enough room, and feeling a slight wind shift to the left, Conner called for the tack without consulting either tactician Tom Whidden or helsman Paul Cayard.
- Former union boss Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won Brazil's presidential election runoff by a landslide Sunday, marking a historic shift to the left for Latin America's largest country.
- Some see Davis'actions as the righting of Wilson's overly conservative policies or simply political payback to his supporters-- and not an indication of a sharp shift to the left.
- On Thursday, former Communist Party member Derek Simpson narrowly defeated Sir Ken Jackson to head the manufacturing union Amicus, the latest shift to the left in union leadership, Quinn said.
- The governing Social Democrats rode a pledge to expand Sweden's huge welfare programs to a thin victory Sunday night in a national election that signaled a shift to the left.
- The result is a maximum profit associated with a lower price ( the max profit shifts to the left a bit, as a result of the profit curve moving ).
- A victory by Silva, who led by a wide margin in pre-election polls, would mark a historic shift to the left for Brazil, which has never elected a leftist president.
- They lost the 2015 election to the NDP, signalling a possible shift to the left in the province, also indicated by the election of progressive mayors in both of Alberta's major cities.
- Conservatives began their ascent in the Sixties, as the white majority rejected what it saw as the Democrats'shift to the left . They had money, ideology and political dominance on their side.
- On hemispheric relations, Powell acknowledged Monday night there has been a shift to the left in several South American countries but said he is " not deeply troubled by it at all.