"I think it's paranoia between libertarians and the hard left that is unjustified, " Graham said.
So Mr Zapatero may have to look elsewhere, to the hard left or the Catalan nationalists, for backing.
Vigorous anti-monarchism was associated with the hard left, and has atrophied with it.
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When he challenged Mr Ortega, whose politics remain those of the hard left, he was kicked out of the party.
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He resisted that tendency, and was often criticized by the hard left.
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The new pontiff has walked a fine line politically in a country that has often been sharply divided between hard left and hard right.
But his attempts to push this policy agenda were drowned out by his battles with the hard left and what were seen as his ineffective and stumbling performances on television and in the Commons.
But the "hard left" remained a problem and its champion Tony Benn - regarded by Mr Kinnock's supporters as a "clear liability to the new model Labour Party" - was seeking the Labour nomination for the Chesterfield by-election.
Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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Apart from the two biggest parties in the incumbent coalition (which will govern until a new team is formed), the other winners were the Green Left (who doubled their votes to 7%) and the hard-left Socialist Party.
And the hard-left junior partner is deeply uncomfortable with the austerity it is being asked to endorse.
Horn said he'd be a hard worker and then, to prove his intensity, hit the wall so hard it left a dent.
This is not the only parallel with the rise of Syriza, the hard-left party in Greece that opposes that country's bail-out programme.
Syriza, an opposition hard-left alliance, stands every chance of gaining support.
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Latin America has a few asset-seizing hard-left governments, notably Argentina and Venezuela, but inequality has also fallen in countries following a more orthodox economic course, such as Chile and Colombia.
The bad news is that the main beneficiary of public disillusionment is Alexis Tsipras, leader of the intransigent hard-left Syriza, who claims to "listen to the people" while rejecting the kind of unity government that more than 70% of Greeks said they wanted.
Mr Jospin came to power last June on a hard-left, Euro-hesitant programme promising the creation of 350, 000 public-sector jobs, a cut in the working week from 39 to 35 hours without loss of pay, big increases in wages and social benefits, a halt to privatisation, a rise in the wealth tax, a rejection of the single currency's stability pact and so on.
The business aviation community banded together to assist, providing supplies and aid areas left hard to reach by power and road outages.
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Tejada replaced the Dodgers' Ramirez at third in the sixth and made a diving catch in the bullpen area in which he landed hard on his left side and came up grimacing.
The Hawks' Kyle Korver saw Anthony shoot 8-for-10 from the three-point line without dribbling at all, only to see Anthony drive hard to his left past Josh Smith for a game-winning layup.
There's still some hard-court season left, and Nadal has been grousing about it, feeling the surface agitates his worn knees.
And he beat the boogie so hard there was nothing left of the hymn, nothing but the sounds of the Holy Ghost that inspired it.
This would raise the federal share of spending to 25% after years of decline, which left the hard-pressed and increasingly grumpy provincial governments to pick up the bill.
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This past week we found out that 100, 000 commodities traders did not know what had become of their hard-earned money left in segregated customers accounts at MF Global, a commodities dealing house now bankrupt.
But, as is often the case in such difficult matters, Congress left the hard work to the regulators: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was told to write rules describing exactly what steps developers had to take to gain this valuable liability protection.
Once again the participant working hard on their jobs were left seeking out answers.
Such devices have an extra lead that uses a circuitous route to reach the otherwise hard-to-reach left ventricle.
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