In a campaign that pitted him against George Smitherman, an urbane, gay politician who had given up a cabinet post in the centre-left Liberal provincial government to run, Mr Ford won votes by promising both to cut taxes and improve services for Toronto's 2.5m residents.
In what has become the meme of all European and international left-liberal salons, the only good Jews in the mini-series are the ones who died in the Holocaust.
Most prominent political groups, from the left-liberal April 6th Movement to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and even the more extreme Salafists, condemned the violence, though the Islamists were evasive about the entry into the building.
"Universal health care" was neither already established nor inevitable, and we thought the foundation had made a serious philosophical and strategic error in accepting rather than disputing the left-liberal notion that the provision of "quality, affordable health care" to everyone was a proper role of government.
Democracy is in peril: That is an emerging theme of the liberal left's response to the Obama scandals.
Today's liberal left conceives of itself as being on the side of all that is good, right and reasonable.
Mr. Gingrich left the small liberal arts college in 1977 after seven years and after he was denied tenure.
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When he was referring to the liberal left media in support of him.
Arguably, this refusal of the liberal left to distinguish between the two very different strains within Orthodoxy is tragically short-sighted.
The Nation magazine's John Nichols sums up the liberal left's anger at the prospect of losing the public option.
If that does happen it may be left to the Liberal Democrats to offer a different vision for the health service.
It oversimplifies matters only slightly to say the liberal left owes its cultural authority to three events in the 1960s and 1970s.
That echoes trenchant criticisms of the industry by Franco Debenedetti, a liberal left-wing senator who has campaigned to reform the electricity industry.
Opposing cuts will attract left-leaning Liberal Democrats angry about their party's collaboration with the Tories (the polls say their migration to Labour has begun).
So, the liberal left and labor unions poured a lot of money in for Rodriguez this year, thinking that they may overturn what happened two years ago.
But I think Tom DeLay's very good at shifting the focus away from him, and he can say, look, Nick Lampson is a favorite of Barbara Streisand and George Soros and the liberal left.
In their disdain for that Iraq project, the Democrats and the liberal left had insisted that Iraq was an artificial state put together by colonial fiat, and that it was a fool's errand to try to make it whole and intact.
More Americans consider themselves conservative than liberal (left-wing), while independent voters lean to the middle.
Many Tories, who sense a liberal-left slant at the BBC, want a tougher line.
For the moderate left, political or liberal constitutional democracy is only understood in the context of social justice.
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As it is, the most conservative Democrat votes to the left of the most liberal Republican, according to CQ Roll Call, part of The Economist Group.
At the same time, this disproves the liberal-left argument that communism was inherently unstable and bound to fall with or without Mr Reagan in the White House.
In one of the most progressive countries in this region, left-wing and liberal groups are also worried about the rising influence of more hard-line Islamist Salafist groups.
So this is not a right or left, conservative-liberal situation.
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The text was rushed through by a constituent assembly dominated by Islamists and boycotted by liberal and left-wing members, and facing a threat of dissolution by the country's top court.
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Until the facts are known, the impression left is of a liberal-minded cabinet that has ditched one of its number because of a private predilection with no bearing on his public job.
Liberal and left-wing Israelis were shaken earlier this year by the stridency of a countrywide campaign against an old-established charity, the New Israel Fund, active in liberal causes among both Jews and Arabs.
To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.
The other four presidential candidates are not along the liberal, democratic left but rather along the chauvinist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic right.
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