adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a left-wing/right-wing etc coalition
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The left-wing coalition was led by the former guerrilla movement.
a left-wing/right-wing government
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The new left-wing government restructured the economy.
a left-wing/right-wing politician
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He had been under attack from right-wing politicians for some time.
a right-wing/left-wing party
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Support for the right-wing parties was strongest among young working-class men.
right-wing/left-wing
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the students’ extreme left-wing views
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
government
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Such utterances, especially from a supposedly left-wing government , are revolutionary.
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They didn't want a new left-wing government sitting on the canal-bank.
group
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The government blamed the unrest on the activities of several small left-wing groups intent on creating general instability.
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A left-wing group , the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Union, also claimed responsibility.
guerrilla
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Navarro's participation also marginalized the remaining left-wing guerrilla forces, who reportedly impeded voting in some towns.
opposition
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In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition .
party
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On June 3 between six and eight members of left-wing parties were reported to have been arrested.
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Even the left-wing parties that may yet form the government have a record of economic reform at state level.
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Secondly, a left-wing party must avoid succumbing to the notion that politics is primarily a matter of institutional government.
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Some of its leaders fear a revival of left-wing parties waving the banner of social justice.
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That might help to produce a radical left-wing party with policies that could rebuild the shattered inner-city area of Tottenham.
politics
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Hayling's left-wing politics were to a large extent the result of his background.
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Branson had long felt that the greatest drawback to Time Out was its left-wing politics .
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The Tory critics object that the Church is peddling left-wing politics as a religious message, while failing to assert moral values.
sympathies
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Jackson was well disposed towards journalists of left-wing sympathies .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a left-wing politician
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A lot of colleagues were put off by her left-wing opinions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
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Another approach is to group together the readers of various right-wing papers and contrast them with readers of left-wing papers.
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Certainly Mosley's constant harping on the theme of left-wing intimidation was a fairly effective recruiting ploy throughout the 1930s.
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Despite the presence of some 37,000 police in the capital, left-wing radicals attempted to disrupt the coronation.
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Even among left-wing clergy the idea of endowing one man with absolute power is abhorrent.
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On the face of it, such activity would seem to be more expressive of right-wing rather than left-wing sentiments.
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Some of its leaders fear a revival of left-wing parties waving the banner of social justice.