The race is between Councilman Greg Nickels and city attorney Mark Sidran, both Democrats, though Sidran has been blasted in some quarters as leaning too far to the right for many in this left-leaning city.

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This left-leaning, pro-union bias explains the party's silence on liberalisation and deregulation of medical and other services that would boost productivity and help create the demand and jobs that Japan badly needs.

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This gathering of left-leaning, activist-sympathetic lawyers is an odd place for a Forbes journalist to show up, but they wanted a full range of views for the panel on securities litigation.

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This infighting has exasperated left-leaning voters: opinion polls say that more and more have simply had enough.

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But left-leaning advocacy groups said this was all about politics.

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As Eugene Steuerle of the left-leaning Urban Institute points out, this system would treat two workers with the same total compensation whatever the mix of cash wages and benefits very differently.

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In most cases, they will remain in their chosen comfort zone, either in adoration or abhorrence of a candidate, within this French bubble, where web activists are predominantly left-leaning , with a small proportion of them on the extreme right, but significantly fewer still on the right.

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Some parties attempted to boycott this initiative, but the Popular Christian Party and many left-leaning parties participated in the election.

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Left-leaning economists argue that the solution to this problem is simple: the Fred should import extra shipments of canned food during hurricane season.

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One reason so many Greeks have told me this route is impossible is because there is no Kirchner - no left-leaning autarchic politician who can pose as the tribune of the nation and create a narrative around the default process, as Nestor Kirchner did in Argentina.

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On discovering that this Ross Perot-style insurgency was getting him nowhere, he then became a left-leaning Democrat.

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