rightwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Kishida, who hails from Hiroshima, the first city to ever suffer an atomic bombing, was on the more dovish side of the LDP, but has since tacked rightwards.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2022
Pecresse, a moderate within a conservative party that has lurched rightwards, would be France's first woman president if she wins the election.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2022
The old trope is that the young begin as naive leftists then drift rightwards with age.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2018
One of his closest friends, the novelist Anthony Powell, suggested in his journals that Orwell's politics would have drifted rightwards.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2013
Referring to the valve, you will see that it has opened an appreciable amount, though the piston has not yet started on its rightwards journey.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald
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