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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So this is not a right or left, conservative-liberal situation.
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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.
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.
While the Liberal Democrats are left licking their wounds over their losses at the local elections, there was further bad news to come.
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Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood, and Jonathan Edwards, the new Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP, urged "left-leaning or disillusioned Liberal Democrat supporters in Wales to switch their allegiance".
The parliament's new members will mostly sit in vaguely like-minded groupings, like the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the Party of European Socialists (centre-left) and the European Liberal Democrats (socially, and sometimes economically, liberal).
Since she became chancellor, whether in coalition with the centre-left SPD or with the liberal FDP, Mrs Merkel has been poaching the ideas of others, such as family policy from the SPD or exit from nuclear energy from the Greens.
The Republicans highlighted the veto to paint Dukakis as a liberal of the far left variety.
Economists -- liberal, conservative, left, right, the economists that advised John McCain's presidential campaign -- believed what we needed was a robust Recovery Act.
Victor Ponta became Romania's third prime minister in less than six months when his left-wing-dominated Social Liberal Union (USL) alliance took charge in May 2012.
Even as Obama takes fire from liberal friends on the left, Warren is taking his share of criticism from conservative supporters on the right who can't believe he is even associating with Obama, let alone appearing at his inauguration.
The good new is, is that our problems are imminently solvable and does not necessarily fall into the classic ideological divisions between left and right, conservative, liberal, but are just smart things to do to respond to a historic challenge that we face as a country.
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Mr Duncan Smith accused the Liberal Democrats of being a left-wing party "that pretends to be moderate when it suits them".
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