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He said he would take a tougher stand against Hamas than the ruling centrist Kadima party has done.

If she votes in favor of the bill, she will look more like a centrist and be in good standing with the voters during the next election year.

He came in second in recent parliamentary elections. Netanyahu wants centrist rivals to join him in a unity coalition.

Again, that's what a supposedly centrist Republican, a member of the Gang of Six trying to devise a bipartisan health plan, sounds like.

With weakened allies in Congress, he would have to be a centrist president or an outright failure.

The next day, in Washington, DC, another group of centrist Democrats called the Hamilton Project offered a complementary set of proposals.

And I think Obama came back after the midterm elections, after taking a drubbing, and said, "I'm going to play centrist with you. "

Oh, and let me give a special shout-out to "centrist" pundits who won't admit that President Obama has already given them what they want.

Netanyahu wants centrist rivals to join him in a unity coalition.

Centrist politicians said they expected Mr Monti to give his answer within a week.

Fifteen years ago, an azzurro represented Italy in international sporting competitions and a moderato was a centrist.

JORGE CASTANEDA: The protestors, by staking out an extremist position, make a more regulatory position more centrist, and that's fine.

If these newscasters weren't centrist, staffers for one of the campaign teams would have objected and insisted on other moderators.

Rob McKenna, the state's boyish attorney-general and a likely Republican candidate for governor, also declares himself proudly centrist.

Centrist Republicans may calculate that it would be easier to wait four years, when the Tea Party's appeal may have ebbed.

But he could not do it without subordinating his own views, advocating more centrist solutions, and breaking with the left.

Meeting that goal "would be a significant achievement, " said David Kendall, an analyst with Third Way, a centrist think tank.

Centrist groups like Third Way and No Labels decry the extreme partisanship and call for a new consensus to deal with the crisis.

Unfortunately, a few centrist Democrats are joining the conservative stampede to extend the Bush tax cuts for this sliver of households.

But the reality of Clintonomics was more centrist and less ambitious than promised.

Mr Obama also unveiled the main elements of his own centrist reform plan for the first time.

Jobbik and Ataka grew out of a collapse in support for centrist parties.

The centrist Liberals lost more than half their seats, and were replaced as the official opposition by the leftish New Democrats.

As a right-winger, he has made smart centrist moves by proposing reforms to health care, one of Labor's traditional issues.

Mr Penn is a committed centrist who thinks elections are won by wooing swing voters rather than revving up the base.

The notion of the president as a centrist reformer may look fairly unlikely.

Most centrist politicians are opportunists rather than policy innovators. The party's leading think-tanks are all on the right.

During the Democratic primaries, Sen. Clinton positioned herself as a centrist on U. S. foreign policy.

Although she is on her party's left, centrist Democrats find her a good listener.

REGULATION On this topic, he still sounds like a centrist Democrat.

In the end, the bill that passed was anything but a socialist scheme. It was centrist through and through.

After the disgrace of Mr. Teng, Hua Kuo-feng, regarded as a centrist, was made Prime Minister and First Deputy Chairman of the party.

That voters who turned away from Ms Rousseff chose Ms Silva is bad news for Mr Serra's centrist Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB).

But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.

But a large number of centrist Democrats representing conservative districts in the South and the mountain West are also likely to lose.

OLLANTA HUMALA won Peru's presidential election earlier this month by recasting himself as a centrist.

She has remodelled herself as an impeccably centrist senator, co-sponsoring bills with prominent conservatives.

This time members of Fatah, small centrist parties and independents have been given key ministries.

ois Bayrou, a centrist leader, who kicked off his campaign by publishing a vitriolic book entitled "Abuse of Power" .

The Democratic congressman is Baron Hill, a leader of the centrist Blue Dog Democratic coalition in Congress.

Several centrist leaders did well in a repudiation of the Kirchners' populist economic policies.

Kohl's centrist policies included modest cuts in government spending and strong support for West German commitments to NATO.

That has appalled centrist Democrats, who blame their poor showing in the election in part on Mrs Pelosi's high and highly liberal profile.

Initial results show the centrist Nepal Congress Party leading in about half of the districts in the capital.

He urged Livni to bring her centrist Kadima party into the coalition, but she flatly refused.

Had he owned and campaigned for those centrist outcomes, the left would have been no angrier than it is anyway.

Support for Mr. Obama and his party is declining among centrist, independent voters.

Mr Obama has a pragmatic streak, but unlike Bill Clinton, who faced a similar setback in 1994, he is no instinctive centrist.

Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist.

Europe makes even centrist voters cross in Britain, yet centrists on the continent are overwhelmingly pro-EU.

Ms Tsai hoped to distance the DPP from its past radicalism and woo centrist voters.

Mr Kenny now heads a centrist coalition with Labour that has Ireland's biggest-ever parliamentary majority.

And now, give or take a couple of relative unknowns, he is the most centrist member of Labour's shadow cabinet.

Centrist "blue-dog" Democrats, many of them in Republican-leaning districts, fared especially poorly.

She may pick up support from centrist candidates who have been eliminated from the race.

The Israeli centrist majority views a Palestinian state with deep ambivalence.

Mr Capriles, of the centrist Justice First party, now leads the primary field.

A centrist Conservative MP makes a matching observation about the youthful circle around Mr Cameron.

The fact is that the Senate bill is a centrist document, which moderate Republicans should find entirely acceptable.

Centrist opinion may rally behind whichever man, Mr Toledo or Mr Kuczynski, seems more likely to win.

It is shifting the presidency to the left, annoying centrist voters who worry about the swelling government debt.

He wants Mr Netanyahu to swap his hardline partners for Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party.

But those centrist voters soon let him down: a series of reforms were easily defeated by the big public-sector unions in 2005.

He is also the centrist who has made it safe for other centrist Democrats to move to the left.

Former Communists dominated the government until 1996, when they were swept from power by a fractious coalition of centrist parties.

They are right that AV would probably favour consensus-seeking, centrist candidates.

Centrist "blue-dog" Democrats, many of them in Republican-leaning districts, [color=#000]fared especially poorly.

But in the more centrist region around Orlando and Tampa, those positions are suspect.

Mr Sarkozy is unpopular because of his maverick, divisive style, which has aliented centrist voters.

Both are centrist democrats, but opposite in virtually all else.

We must place priority on reducing the deficit, say Republicans and "centrist" Democrats.

Though he campaigned as a centrist and promised an era of post-partisan government, that's not how he has behaved.

But Mr Funes's centrist approach has won over voters who had tired of El Salvador's polarised politics.

He is a Clintonian centrist who has championed welfare reform, free trade and even a slightly flatter tax code.

Most of all, though, he showed how tough it is to be a centrist.

The squad sent to Miranda is led by Mr Jaua, who frequently calls the centrist Mr Capriles a "fascist" .

Franç ois Bayrou, a centrist, bagged just 8. 4%, ten points less than in the first round of the 2007 presidential poll.

He has just published a new book, "Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future" (University of California Press).

It is already clear that his government will be more technocratic and more centrist than Mr Uribe's populist conservatism.

He heads a rump centrist party, the UDF.

You see, admitting that one side is willing to make concessions, while the other isn't, would tarnish one's centrist credentials.

And it seems a strange way to combat the threat from the centrist Mr Bayrou.

What is more, some say their centrist role is overstated.

He has embraced a solution to America's immigration mess that is both centrist and sensible.

Dogged by student protests and allegations of corruption, the centrist Liberals are trying to keep the separatists at bay one more time

A new form of radical centrist politics is needed to tackle inequality without hurting economic growth

Time, a centrist magazine, judged Mr Specter one of America's ten best senators in

The young black senator is better at appealing to the centrist voters who like Mr McCain;

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