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Conservation can moderate, but not reverse, rising consumption in the industrialized countries and the developing world.
If he succeeds, a
moderate
democratic left will become a realistic prospect in the region.
Compared to Corbyn, Sanders is a
moderate.
Of course, I may be far too optimistic in thinking that the tragedy in the Gulf will spur a more sensible energy policy that attempts to
moderate
consumption rather than constantly seeking new ways to fuel it.
Recent events seem to suggest that many young Iranians doubt if Rouhani can deliver greater prosperity and a more
moderate
version of Islamist rule than that offered by his hardline rivals.
The advocates of expansion want Western Europe to support it as a
moderate
step, and Russians not to fight it as a hostile plan.
Why do such
moderate
actions, rooted in the Chinese moral tradition, provoke such dramatic repression?
The restored tax rates will, for the foreseeable future, be sufficient to support the US defense establishment, the growing US social-insurance system, and a
moderate
– albeit inadequate and suboptimal – amount of other “discretionary” federal spending.
Dissension has been relatively
moderate.
After all, why should workers and unions
moderate
wage demands if governments will boost spending whenever high unemployment looms?
Unions would bow to government requests to
moderate
their demands for wage increases, and governments would bow to union demands for public spending and social insurance.
A second, less elegant idea is to have central banks simply raise their target inflation rates from today’s norm of 2% to a higher but still
moderate
level of 4%.
In 2003, an IMF study raised the specter of Japan-like problems around the world, and listed thirteen countries, including, China, Germany, Singapore, and Poland, with a
moderate
to high risk of deflation.
Obama’s detractors condemn his decision not to launch a forceful military intervention to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad early in the conflict, when the US could have backed more
moderate
forces that were supposedly in play.
In the general election in March 2004 – the first since Mahathir stepped down after 22 years in power –
moderate
Muslims helped Abdullah Badawi to a landslide victory.
This has helped to counter extremist tendencies domestically and provides a conceptual platform for
moderate
Islam.
Only an open Iran, fully integrated into the regional economy and granted a role commensurate to its size and economic potential, will be able to
moderate
its siege mentality.
They recognize that the intolerance of Islamist groups can easily be turned against
moderate
Muslims.
First, their Congress government revived the
moderate
secular traditions of Jawaharlal Nehru and brought India back firmly to the political center, wresting control from communal and ideological extremists.
He wants Pakistan to succeed as a moderate, modernizing country.
The remedy I have in mind, of course, is faster economic growth – the one thing that can raise living standards, reduce excessive inequalities, improve job prospects, alleviate trade tensions, and even
moderate
geopolitical pressures.
Booming trade in the region has failed to mute or
moderate
territorial and other disputes; on the contrary, it has only sharpened regional geopolitics and unleashed high-stakes brinkmanship.
Thus, an unexpected window of opportunity has opened for the Kurds to achieve full independence, though their dependence on good relations with both Turkey and Iran for access to global markets will
moderate
their political ambitions.
Moreover, no matter how critical the
moderate
Arabs may be of the Hamas coup in Gaza, the Arab leaders cannot afford the domestic fallout of shunning Hamas.
Berlusconi tries to mask his inactivity by scaring his voters, repeating again and again that electing the
moderate
left would mean signing a pact with the devil, i.e., the "communists."
So it has taken a consistently harsh position against the Brotherhood, despite the latter being more
moderate
than the Saudis’ own brand of Islam.
Fourth, China should
moderate
its position that no foreign ship or aircraft may engage in surveillance or intelligence collection not only within its territorial waters, about which international law is clear, but within its entire EEZ, about which China’s argument is not at all strong.
Zhang’s
moderate
approach to political analysis – during our time as colleagues at Peking University, Zhang criticized some of my stances as excessively derogatory toward the current regime – makes him a somewhat surprising target for the government.
Crises were no longer
moderate.
If Israel had accepted the results of the election, that might have strengthened the more
moderate
political wing.
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