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- adjective Having
opinions that aremoderately moreconservative thansocialist .
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Examples
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In an analysis for Civitas, the right-of-centre thinktank, Sir David Varney warns that scrapping England's 152 primary care trusts in order to make £20bn of efficiency savings is highly risky at a time when the NHS is meant to be delivering unprecedented productivity gains.
NHS shakeup could set patients against their GPs, warns report 2011
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This period in politics is a profoundly conservative moment and right-of-centre parties are flourishing across the globe.
We Tories must conserve our compassion | Tim Mongomerie 2011
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Until recently, most European countries were dominated by two main parties that addressed the majority of the electorate: a right-of-centre party (Christian Democrat, liberal-conservative, people's) and a left-of-centre party (socialist, social-democratic), with smaller parties (ecologists, communists) addressing a narrower electorate.
Liberal multiculturalism masks an old barbarism with a human face Slavoj Zizek 2010
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Predictably for a right-of-centre administration, there has been an increased emphasis on the private sector's contribution to development.
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The Tax Payers 'Alliance, right-of-centre thinktanks and the conservative media have weighed in aggressively on his side.
We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor Will Hutton 2010
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But the right-of-centre voters of Barnsley Report, 4 March have decided Ukip is a respectable way of voting Tory without having to vote Conservative and left-leaning voters are no longer fooled by the Lib Dems.
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Many right-of-centre thinktanks have opposed its special treatment, arguing that Canada's budgetary restraint in the 1990s – considered a blueprint for deficit reduction – did not have any no-go areas.
Don't spare the NHS from cuts, says leftwing thinktank Larry Elliott 2010
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The book could not have come at a worse time for Sarkozy, whose ruling right-of-centre UMP party is facing an onslaught by the extreme-right Front National in cantonal elections today.
Book on Nicolas Sarkozy reveals what he really thinks about his ministers 2011
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Mark Littlewood has been director general of the Institute for Economic Affairs, a right-of-centre thinktank, since 2009.
Is capitalism broken... and what is the world going to do to fix it? 2011
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Yes, there are some stupid, supremely ideological Tories and Tory supporters, some of whom festoon the opinion pages of Britain's right-of-centre press, but the leadership of the party is more willing to duck and dive as events unfold.
We know what Labour's against. Now let us hear what it is for | Will Hutton 2011
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