Despite Torres' best intentions, his marked leftward drift did not stabilize the country.

Still, in fits and starts, the Administration communicated a leftward drift.

Lafayette, the head of the National Guard, was becoming alarmed by the leftward drift of the revolution.

Formed in 1981 by Labor politicians united in their aversion to the continuing leftward drift of that party, the Social Democrats are now deeply divided.

After the 1979 election, Mitchell felt increasingly uneasy with the leftward drift of the Labour Party.

The New Criterion offered itself as an alternative to this "leftward drift" in our cultural life.

He believed that his leftward drift as a result of the Iraq War and the actions of the Bush administration was not appreciated by the senior editorial staff.

One Republican with ties to the Pataki administration joked that the transformation was the logical extension of the Republican Party's leftward drift in recent years.

For New York's Republican Party, patronage, plus incumbency and vigilant adaptation to the state's leftward drift, have sufficed for a decade.

Zelaya's leftward drift during his presidency (which included raising the minimum wage by 60%) culminated in a plan to hold a Constitutional Assembly to write a new constitution.