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- adjective Having
opinions that aremoderately moresocialist thanconservative .
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Examples
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Mieville routinely brings his left-of-centre political views into his writing.
Book Awards 2009
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Mieville routinely brings his left-of-centre political views into his writing.
February 2009 2009
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But she will acknowledge that the party's left-of-centre economic and social agenda is not universally popular: We've continued to say things the others won't, and call for policies that put people off.
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Essentially, then, the fight is between two left-of-centre parties which share the same vision about fighting poverty and maintaining public services as best they can.
The SNP mustn't waste time on separatism | Kevin McKenna 2011
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But the decades-old dominance of British political journalism by rightwing newspapers, with their rigid assumptions about how little left-of-centre thinking the British electorate and economy will tolerate, has shortened the shelf lives of Labour leaders in particular.
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In "Plan B: A Good Economy for a Good Society", published by Compass, a left-of-centre pressure group, the extent of Plan A's cuts is described as "an act of economic sadomasochism".
The economy: we need Plan B and we need it now | Observer editorial 2011
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Detecting a certain ennui sweeping across Belfast's healthy but slightly stale, generic dance music-dominated gay scene just over a year ago, Niamh Rowan, Mairead Hughes and Stephen Dorothy launched Eclektric, offering a fusion of left-of-centre electronica, indie and pop with an equally quirky dose of live-mixed visuals.
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The Islamist Ennahda Party won the most seats and partnered with the liberal Congress for the Republic and the left-of-centre Ettakatol Party to form a ruling coalition and divide up the top posts between them.
Tunisia's election winners form interim government after uprising 2011
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Sometimes it seems like half the exciting, left-of-centre acts to visit the city are first encountered via their enthusiastic efforts.
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Aileen Colleran, one of the most influential Labour councillors in Glasgow, was dismayed by the timbre of the Labour campaign: We came across as tribal, and with an obsessive hatred of the SNP, when they are a democratic, left-of-centre party like ourselves.
Alex Salmond can do no wrong after biggest victory margin in Scottish political history 2011
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