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If China takes a hardline path, or fails to moderate its behavior significantly in the months ahead, the case for further international pushback by countries like mine – including freedom-of-navigation voyages within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef and other artificial islands in that category – will become compelling.
Back in office after 1994, the postcommunists were moderate, left of center realists - cynics, some say.
During much of the intervening period, between the end of World War II and the 1980s, inequality in the advanced countries was moderate.
Though the change to the one-child policy may cause a moderate consumption boom, it could also reverse a positive trend: the acceleration of human-capital accumulation.
But the most likely upshot of the policy change will be a moderate baby boom – and better-performing child-related consumer stocks.
Nor does the election of Hassan Rowhani, a relative moderate, to Iran’s presidency improve Kerry’s chances.
In response, an ad hoc coalition, including moderate opposition groups, Turkish authorities, and local NGOs carried out a series of vaccination campaigns and contained the outbreak.
Trade unions agreed to moderate wage claims and abandon wage indexation, in exchange for reduced working time and improved prospects for the future.
In fact, Macron’s victory – which he celebrated to the tune of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the European anthem – is likely to invigorate more moderate, pro-European forces across Europe (with the possible exceptions of Hungary and Poland).
Instead, his administration has sought to portray the Taliban as a moderate force that can be accommodated within Afghanistan’s political system.
Any illusion that the populist coalition could be kept in check by moderate cabinet members has now been destroyed.
Will collective punishment make them moderate, law-abiding helots?
Her father was, above all, an ideologue, a “populist” Napoleon who would never moderate his vision of a white and Catholic France in need of a moral revival.
In a last-ditch effort to improve the proposal’s chances of success, US President Barack Obama – who has largely avoided taking a proactive role in the peace process during his second term – met with Netanyahu at the White House to urge him to moderate his position.
China’s military power has increased, but its behavior has been more moderate than it was a decade ago.
All this combines with an increase in the electorate's interest in moderate centrist conservatives.
Only one component is missing : it is necessary to form a confident right-wing centrist coalition to prevent the moderate left-wing centrists from getting an opportunity to persistently experiment with the search for Russia's "special way".
With moderate GDP growth rates (averaging 4.6% over the last decade) offset by 2.7% annual population growth, per capita income has been growing at less than 2% per year, versus the 7% rate which China achieves.
Compared to respondents in the other Middle Eastern countries, Saudis were less religious overall, and their attitudes toward democracy and arranged marriage also indicate a moderate undercurrent.
Curiously, while many Americans and Europeans want moderate Muslim voices to succeed in Indonesia (and Southeast Asia), they often undermine moderates with policies that are perceived as anti-Islamic.
The war on terrorism is not a clash of civilizations - Islam versus the West - but a civil war within Islamic civilization between extremists who use violence to enforce their vision and a moderate majority who want things like jobs, education, health care, and dignity as they pursue their faith.
As for diarrhea, a comprehensive global study found that moderate to severe cases are caused primarily by rotavirus, making that virus the leading killer of infants and toddlers worldwide.
The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.
Northern European countries--particularly Germany and the Netherlands--prided themselves on traditionally maintaining moderate debt-to-GDP ratios and relatively low interest rates.
Bush first ran for office as a cautious conservative, prepared to be moderate at home and humble abroad.
This is crucial for his image as a newly emerged world leader, promising moderate Islam in an ocean of extremism.
Public debt stood at a moderate 45% of output.
But the international community should move beyond military aid to support Lebanon’s real strengths: its moderate, pluralist, and vibrant society.
And Europe’s relatively recent recovery will probably be moderate and tilted toward domestic services.
Israel will not be able to avoid territorial withdrawals to the 1967 borders by exercising its military might; the US will not be able to ensure oil security through continued military occupation in the Middle East; and terrorists will not be able to destroy Israel or foist their fundamentalist ideas by force on moderate societies.
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