"The debacle of Copenhagen is also Barack Obama's debacle, " editorialized Der Spiegel, a left-of-center publication.
Avaaz is a global political action group, organizing petitions and campaigns on mostly left-of-center issues.
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After I wrote about the issue, I expected many left-of-center policy types to share my concern.
But once he is in office the overwhelming motivation of a left-of-center President slowly morphs toward getting reelected.
In the sixties and seventies, Southern-conservative control was broken by a coalition of left-of-center Democrats and moderate Republicans.
What caused so many influential, left-of-center policy leaders to take up their pens and blurb a book so exuberantly?
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Hasan, who shares Congress's left-of-center perspective, seems to approve of this double orientation.
There is a small cohort of left-of-center health policy analysts who remain in denial about the poor health outcomes caused by Medicaid.
But the story refused to die, thanks to the doggedness of the left-of-center newspaper The Guardian which published a series of stories about the scandal.
Although none of those poets had urged violence against a president, Bush canceled the event after left-of-center poets protested and threatened to disrupt the event.
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Yet, despite these advantages, Minnesota itself has an upscale, left-of-center orientation that seems to put it beyond the reach of Republicans, Pawlenty or no Pawlenty.
Mr. Kagan, lately we've seen populist, left-of-center, socialist leaders elected, in many cases in landslides, in countries like Brazil, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia.
And these numbers are from the left-of-center Congressional Budget Office.
Meanwhile, left-of-center thinkers tended to accentuate the negative, arguing that the lot of the average worker has barely improved at all, and may have actually declined, since the 1970s.
Obviously, I am more than happy to write for a mainstream news outlet where differing opinions are allowed to flourish, but I am less comfortable with the notion of being permanently affiliated with an overtly left-of-center (sometimes activist) outlet.
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Thilo Sarrazin, a governor of the Bundesbank (and it's worth mentioning, a member of the left-of-center Social Democratic party) was pressured to resign his post in September after publishing a book arguing the failure of Germany's absorption of immigrants.
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In order to staff the National Security Council, it was therefore compelled to rely heavily upon detailees from the State Department and CIA, organizations riddled with career civil servants whose left-of-center leanings were greatly exacerbated by hiring and promotion practices during the Clinton years.
The most recent edition of HWR, hosted by Jared Rhoads of the Lucidicus Project, contains the work of a number of left-of-center health policy types (and a few market-oriented types to boot), who often have interesting perspectives on health care because they are directly involved in the field.
We hesitate to bring up anything to do with the ongoing debacle that is SPOT, but the guys over at Microsoft's most left-of-center division helped popularize the concept of "glanceable" information -- ubiquitous, high-demand data (weather reports, for instance) that can be gleaned quickly and with little or no user input.
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The so-called Five-Star Movement is currently polling third among voters ahead of the coming elections, after the center-left Democrats of the Left and center-right People of Freedom parties.
The 2005 NRW election gave rise to the Left, exhibited low voter turnout, and left the traditional catch-all parties straddling right-and-left of center.
In a third round of voting on Friday, top officials of Italy's center-right coalition rejected the center-left presidential candidacy of former prime minister and European Commission president Romano Prodi.
Then, there is Dan Restrepo, yet-another problematic product of John Podesta's left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) - an organization whose staffing of and influence over the Obama administration is extremely worrisome.
Pedro Hernandez relieved, and Buck drove a full-count pitch into the second deck of seats above left-center field to stretch the lead to 10-2.
Bersani could have possibly led his party to a far stronger showing if he had allowed Matteo Renzi, the 38-year-old mayor of Florence and center-left darling to run in his place.
Letta, a center-left politician, has 18 ministers -- two of whom are members of the center-right People of Freedom Party led by three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Jones opened a three-run second with a double to left-center, the first of four straight hits off Marcum.
The bickering over the president reflects the divisions that lawmakers have been unable to overcome since the Feb. 24-25 national elections that saw the center-left win control of the lower Chamber of Deputies but fail to do so in the Senate.
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