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rightwards

/ ˈraɪtwədz /

adverb

  1. towards or on the right

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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When the Telegraph of all news organs heralded what it called "a welcome Rightwards shift," then perhaps it is little wonder that some on the party's soft Left as well as hard Left might be jittery.

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Frederiksen's critics see her 'rightwards swing' as a cynical ploy to get into, and then stay in, power.

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Others will argue that a rightwards shift by mainstream parties could simply bolster the AfD's arguments.

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But ever since the demonstrations started, EU politics on agriculture and climate have shifted rightwards, outraging many of the center right’s old allies with whom it set up the Green Deal.

Only when the court shifted rightwards, following the appointments of conservative justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and Clarence Thomas, did O'Connor start to break ranks more frequently.

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