Examples of rightward in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The caucuses' reputation has been damaged by high barriers to participation, a dearth of racial diversity, the rightward drift in the state's electorate and a leftward drift in the Democratic participants. — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021 Recent Republican turnover in the Congress has continued the party’s rightward drive. — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021 Cartwright, however, has been a top target for Republicans for years -- the party eager to seize on the rightward lean of the district to gain another seat in House. — Dan Merica, CNN, 5 Sep. 2021 But the new selections signal an end to the circuit’s rightward shift under Trump, who appointed 10 judges to a court that had previously been among the most liberal of the nation’s appellate courts. — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021 Much of the scholarship on the rightward shift of the late twentieth century has focused on the growing power of the conservative mobilization. — Kim Phillips-fein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2021 And with the Supreme Court’s rightward shift, many in the movement sense their moment has arrived. — Sarah Varney, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021 Can the rightward forty-five per cent of the country at this point be talked to? — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 29 June 2021 Saar or Bennett, if given the chance to form a governing coalition, would be more likely to include moderate parties, giving them more room to make nice with Democrats despite their own rightward leanings, political analysts say. — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021

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