Leftward \Left"ward\ (-w[~e]rd), adv. Toward or on the left side.
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. --Southey.
The meeting of the leadership council, formed by conservative and moderate Democrats to counter the party's purported leftward drift, occurs as the party's governing Democratic National Committee continues its spring meeting in Indianapolis.
U.S. officials worry about a leftward tilt in Mexico.
Named director of finance was Melissa Moss, who has been principal fund raiser for the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of elected officials who banded together in 1985 to counter what they believed was the leftward drift of the national party.
Despite the leftward tilt of the primary campaign, however, Mr. From still isn't conceding victory to George Bush.
The Greens, who with 8.3% of the vote grew fastest in the last election, are steering leftward.
While the right-wing Liberal Front and Democratic Social Party also did well in a few towns, the strongest trend was the leftward lurch in the major centers of industrial and financial activity.
The DLC was formed four years ago by officeholders determined to stem what they saw as the national party's leftward drift.
When the Cuban Revolution tilted leftward, Dr. Bosch turned against Mr. Castro and helped organize an insurgency against him, former Bosch associates say.
For two decades all the momentum in Democratic presidential contests has been leftward.
While Mrs. Thatcher was running the most conservative government her country has seen in this century, Britain's Labor Party spent much of her first two terms lurching leftward.
Bush had repeatedly taunted Dukakis with the "L word" during the fall campaign, saying the Democrat has tried to hide his leftward leanings.
If they don't, some analysts think they could be forced to rely on the Communist coalition for support in parliament, potentially heralding a leftward shift in economic policies.
But work in front of cameras dried up for the versatile Gilford during the McCarthy era, as it did for numerous show-business people with leftward political sentiments.
The DLC was formed in 1985 with the avowed purpose of stopping what many of its founders considered the party's leftward drift.