Angela Merkel in AFP I do worry about the centripetal tendencies in our political and social life......far too many of our political leaders prefer to identify themselves first in terms of their sectional and sectarian identity and only then in terms of the national... Manmohan Singh http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan_Singh&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH6ZyRkwy1bOgMraS9dZn9q9TYvkg Sakaal Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/12/27202233/PM-decries-votebank-politics.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHybjOBI40Bgjm5Cg21D8Z-ChBKog Dec 27, 2008
16263 22563 centrism Merkel said Germany needed a policy of moderation, centrism and practical reason" to face what economists say could be the worst downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930s.