1894 Nebraska State Jrnl. 15 Oct. 2/2 The returns are incomplete, but it is probable that the new chamber will contain fifty-eight leftists and fifty rightists.

1937 Times 22 Sept. 8/2 The assassinations of the past six years [in Japan] were due to the discontent of younger officers and Rightists with depression or threats of depression.

1945 C. Burney Dungeon Democracy iii. 70 He was, in Austrian politics, known to be a Rightist and a Catholic.

1960 G. Mikes How to be Inimitable 53 The Labour Party has a few real leftists and the Tories a few real rightists (and vice versa).

1974 J. Mitchell Death & Bright Water v. 45 Greek fighting Greek, Right against Left... By that time Michael was a rightist too.

1985 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Aug. 8/2 Suddenly most right-wingers started calling themselves rightists or neo-cons, short for neo-conservatives.

2002 New Statesman 25 Nov. 28/1 The French rightists look to Aznar because he has brought a divided Spanish right..under his control and led it to victory twice.

1987 Science 13 Nov. 882/1 Whereas the antivivisectionists operate from principles of humaneness..the rightists embrace the idea of animal equality.

1992 Lear's Mag. May 61/1 Believing that animals have a moral status equal to that of human beings, the rightists also repudiate the moderate camp.

2000 E. L. Bradshaw & P. Bateson in L. M. Gosling & W. J. Sutherland Behaviour & Conservation xix. 331 The welfarists argue, in contrast to the rightists, that utilization of animals is not in itself problematic, providing the benefits to humans are great and the animals are cared for humanely.

1894 Daily Times (Portsmouth, Ohio) 29 June 1/5 The rightist intrigue was so active against M. Cusimer-Perier that he refused..all requests from the republican leaders to be their candidate.

1938 Time 30 May 34/3 By daybreak enraged Rightist students found their university had been taken over by the United Socialist Youth of Mexico.

1940 C. S. Lewis Let. 17 Jan. (1966) 176 You will presently see both a Leftist and a Rightist pseudo-theology developing.

1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1032/1 The continuing reiteration of official reports from the Chinese Communist press of unrest, crime, ‘rightist’ plotting, food black-marketing, [etc.].

1974 Times 4 Nov. 14/6 The [Durham University] debating society is regarded as a Rightist organization.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) 16 Nov. 7/3 In another incident, rightist youths stoned an immigrant hostel.

2000 Big Issue 4 Sept. 46/1 I am free, very white and..have many other views and attributes probably thought of as a bit rightist.