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In 2008, there was an attempt to revive the peace effort, after the moderate Demetris Christofias replaced Tassos Papadopoulos as the Greek Cypriot president; but the process soon lost steam.
But the experience of 2004-2008 suggests that moderate appreciation is not enough.
But, though this argument is valid in principle, economic models show that this risk has only a moderate effect on the best policy.
The origins of the Houthi movement date to 1991, when it was created to protect Zaydism, a moderate form of Shi'ism, from the encroachment of Sunni Islamists.
The fact that Peru’s president, Ollanta Humala, is more moderate than Chile’s, Michelle Bachelet, will not really matter.
Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition’s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the symptoms were an understandable response to circumstances.
Likewise, for a relatively large and closed economic system such as Europe, a weak euro provides moderate positive effects on growth and some moderate negative effects in terms of threatening inflation.
If such a toll could be substantially reduced at moderate cost, the investment would be worthwhile.
Likewise, despite Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on immigration, his policies have been relatively moderate, perhaps because many of the businesspeople who supported his campaign actually favor a milder approach.
The stock market collapsed, moderate inflation turned into mild deflation, many bank loans became uncollectible and economic growth evaporated.
While prudential regulation and supervision can never be perfect, extending such oversight to hedge funds and other unregulated institutions can still moderate the downsides.
Having met and conversed with Erdogan on more than one occasion, I found him a moderate and reasonable man.
They argue that if the AKP comes to control the presidency, it may no longer pursue moderate policies.
Certainly, events could turn out positively, with the UK remaining part of the EU, and Spain opting for the status quo or a more moderate vision of change than Greece’s Syriza-led government has embraced.
Political candidates must engage them, occasionally pander to them, and tailor their message to them, all of which steers leaders and parties toward moderate positions.
Yet these sensible and moderate findings will be met with a predictable wall of alarmism.
But, given the country’s strong neoliberal foundations, consistent market-friendly policies, and widespread support for moderate change, Bachelet will most likely change course only slightly.
If she accomplishes this through moderate and gradual reforms, Chile’s democracy will grow stronger and more inclusive.
Like Japan, the Bush administration’s relatively moderate stance toward North Korea has changed since the talks broke down last year.
In addition, certain members of OPEC, again led by Saudi Arabia, are now less willing to try to moderate fluctuations in the price of oil, as they correctly recognize that “swing producers” risk durable losses in market share.
Could a more moderate approach by the Obama administration beget a more conciliatory response from Khamenei?
In the US, output continues to expand, but at a moderate 2% pace; and, even leaving aside the fiscal cliff looming at the end of the year, when Congress will be forced to impose spending cuts and allow tax cuts enacted in 2001 to expire, recovery remains at risk.
Creating a moderate Pakistan at peace with itself can only be a long-term project, because it hinges on empowering a feeble civil society and, ultimately, reining in the military’s role in politics.
These parties’ extremist tendencies and narrow platforms are limiting governments’ policy flexibility by driving relatively moderate parties and politicians to adopt more radical positions.
He then methodically shelled positions held by moderate rebels, while no less methodically sparing the Islamic State’s stronghold in Raqqa.
Salafi support for Aboul Fotouh, a moderate former MB leader, proved to be a double-edged sword, because it repelled many liberals and socialists who would have voted for him otherwise.
More moderate postcommunist parties, on the other hand, are in power in Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, and throughout most of the former Soviet empire.
From that standpoint, a moderate political environment is both a benefit and a source of vulnerability.
The majority of observant Muslims are peaceful, and most Islamists today have adopted more moderate, democratic politics.
His fall from public grace – too statist and fiscally intrusive for the right, but too moderate and social democratic for the true left – was more rapid than that of any president of the Fifth Republic.
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