leftward

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Examples

• The leftward shift that helped build a suburban Democratic supermajority in the legislature and has blunted Republicans running statewide has become a wall for recall supporters to climb.

• The leftward push fell short in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, when Cuomo handily defeated Cynthia Nixon not only statewide but in New York City, where Cuomo won 66 percent of the vote to Nixon’s 33 percent.

• Swearing off Dominion money has been a point of pride for many of the state’s Democrats in recent years, as the party has shifted leftward and has become less accommodating to the utility giant.

• The country has moved leftward culturally, though the culture wars are far from over.

• Not that the calls for her to get in, even just to pull Clinton leftward in a primary clash, are likely to quiet.

• So will Generation Obama lean leftward forever, or does this Harvard poll show that the spell may be broken?

• Suddenly, instead of falling slightly as you'd expect, they climb back above their leftward neighbors.

• The leftward shift by tech firms is a fairly recent development.

• We passed round the leftward edge of the brown hill and joined our infantry in a broad green valley.

• Below the small kopje were tents and waggons; from the leftward shoulder of the big one flashed once more the Boer guns.

• Down a black-powder gun was popping on the film-cut ridge of Bluebank.