leftwards BrE
leftward AmE

His initial stance was with the General Zionists, but as time went on moved leftward.

A normally developed aorta is a single arch that leaves the heart and moves leftward.

The underlined clause is taken to have moved leftward in the second sentence, the blank marking its starting position.

Some political commentators say that an administration that includes Labor and tilts leftward may emerge.

As it bends leftward, it forces the neighboring air molecules together on the left, creating a small area of high pressure.

The reproach might have weight if the Norwegian Parliament had tilted consistently eastward or leftward.

In raising the cost, either the demand curve shifts leftward, or the supply curve shifts upward.

The chariot of the ages and its hiss-breathing goats veer leftward as they rumble down toward the temple.

Meanwhile, the liberal actor Warren Beatty has been making noises about seeking the party nomination as a way of pressuring the Democrats to move leftward.

It is a fact of our cultural life - noted with all due qualifications and exceptions - that documentary filmmaking tilts leftward, much as cable news and AM talk radio skew right.

If the Free Democrats' gains tend to pull the Kohl Government toward the political center, some commentators said that the Green Party's rise appears to put pressure on the Social Democrats to move leftward.

But in passive systems, component lineages should develop no skew because increases and decreases in individual species should be equally common梩hat is, as many species should move leftward to less complexity as rightward to more elaboration.

As the party shifts leftward, a gap has opened between this base and the theoretically inclined professional politicians in Bonn who, it is argued, are out of touch with the concerns of the working class and increasingly tempted by ideas popularized by the Greens.

With the rapid acceleration that makes him such a dangerous striker, Klose moved leftward along the Swedish defensive line and then laid the ball back into the center in Podolski's path, where it was met with an unstoppable low, left-footed drive into the net.

Roosevelt's Democrats had done that sort of thing often enough onthe East Side, disrupting the meetings not only of Socialists but alsoof the Republicans who hadn't moved leftward when their partysplit in the acrimonious aftermath of the Second Mexican War.

Aside from Avnery (a journalist and Knesset member who had confronted the Israeli establishment since the early 1950s) most founders of the ICIPP-like Peled himself-were dissident members of the establishment who had moved leftward in the early 1970s.

The size of the defeat cannot be seen other than as a repudiation of this concepts Having done everything they possibly could to sabotage Goldwater and magnify the extent of his defeat, the party's Liberals piously maintained that Conservatism had been repudiated and that the party must move leftward in the future.

On the assumption that the auxiliaries has and will are the heads of phrases - of IPs (inflection phrases), for instance - the b-sentences are the result of head movement, whereby the auxiliary verbs has and will move leftward without taking with them the rest of the phrase that they head.