The goal was to be the centrist alternative to a separate effort, initiated by Barbara Boxer, a liberal from California and the chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee.

The Christian Democrats: a centrist alternative?

It is sometimes considered a centrist alternative to the Manhattan Institute.

The SDP formed an alliance with the Liberal Party which contested the 1983 and 1987 general elections as a centrist alternative to Labour and the Conservatives.

Mr. Chernomyrdin's party was crafted to act as a centrist alternative to Communists and ultra-nationalists in next December's parliamentary elections.

He offered himself as a centrist alternative between the old-style Democrats and the new-style Republicans who have promised in their "Contract With America" to take a sword to social programs.

The polarization may be due in part to the elimination of candidates who said they were offering a more centrist alternative.

Mr. Murayama, who led the Socialists in abandoning their entire platform of leftist policies, has been struggling to halt a movement to disband and recreate the party as a centrist alternative.

The transition marks the failure of almost a decade of American efforts to build up the Christian Democratic Party of President Duarte as a centrist alternative to political extremes.

She portrayed herself as a centrist alternative to her three right-wing opponents-Hudak, Klees and Randy Hillier.