1.  But Putin would have done better to join forces with centrist groups committed to political democracy and market-oriented reforms.

2.  But several members of a centrist Republican group, insisted that reducing the national debt should be a paramount concern of the incoming administration.

3.  Elsewhere in the hall, representatives of more centrist environmental groups, mainly American, scrambled to counterattack.

4.  Forbes filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against a centrist Republican group that is airing a commercial that attacks the candidate.

5.  His closest allies then seemed to be a variety of small centrist groups broadly favorable to reform.

6.  The Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group whose leaders last week rebuked Clinton for straying from the moderate fold he helped found, has supported similar ideas.

7.  The Progressive Policy Institute is the think tank affiliated with the Democratic centrist group.

8.  They are expected to finance the new centrist group.

9.  Admitting their time has yet to come in Russia, five liberal groups formed a coalition Monday with more centrist groups but pointedly excluded the leading liberal party Yabloko.

10.  Another faction leader, Oleg Morozov of the centrist Russian Regions group, painted an even darker portrait of Russia.