You have, I think, consistently, as an advocate, took a point of view that was left of center.
They tend to be more moderate, voting more to the left of center, but rarely to any extreme.
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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.
Santos and Mockus will compete in a mid-June runoff, in which Mr. Santos could well face united opposition from all left of center parties and factions.
It also shows something equally important to the future of our culture: that there is no inherent need for good TV to be left of center.
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Unlike past contests in which one party would lean mildly left of center and the other somewhat to the right, this one will be unprecedentedly hard-core.
They ended up slightly left of center in the fourth row above the center aisle that divides the lower seats close to the screen from the upper section.
The artist himself may look out at us just to the left of center, and most scholars agree that his young son, Jorge (identified by the birth date inscribed on his pocket square), points with a didactic gesture to the mystical event in the foreground.
What makes the success of "Clybourne Park" so interesting is that American theater is a monoculture, a thick-walled bubble in which you'll look long and hard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.
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In the sixties and seventies, Southern-conservative control was broken by a coalition of left-of-center Democrats and moderate Republicans.
There is a small cohort of left-of-center health policy analysts who remain in denial about the poor health outcomes caused by Medicaid.
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.
But once he is in office the overwhelming motivation of a left-of-center President slowly morphs toward getting reelected.
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.
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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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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"The debacle of Copenhagen is also Barack Obama's debacle, " editorialized Der Spiegel, a left-of-center publication.
Be of no illusion, this coalition of Center Left and Center Right will start off in a mood of sweetness and light.
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.
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.
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.
Using a thumb to control the navigational buttons as most would do, I found myself to accidentally press down or left instead of the center Select button.
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.
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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