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It made some sense, then, that European social democrats frequently ended up in coalition governments with moderate pro-business conservatives or Christian Democrats.
But while their losses were moderate, CDU’s Bavarian sister-party, the CSU, experienced a debacle second only to the Social Democrats.
Backed by lavish financing from abroad, Salafist fundamentalism – an intolerant version of Islam at odds with the more moderate Sufi-influenced variant that prevailed in India for centuries – has been spreading across Bangladesh in recent years.
Some risk factors – moderate hypertension and high cholesterol, for example – have themselves become chronic diseases, requiring medical (and sometimes surgical) treatment and further contributing to the rise in illness rates.
If a moderate nationalism is harnessed to the yoke of political reform, the results could be good for Japan – and for the rest of the world.
After all, even moderate Cypriots were outraged by the bullying of their small island by Germany and by Europe.
The best outcome may be some sort of cohabitation between the military and more moderate Islamist groups.
He could be a fierce turf fighter, yet it is fair to say that he could have fought harder for his moderate and dovish views in the post-1967 government in which he served.
Gone is the moderate policy towards China that Chen espoused previously.
These goodwill gestures have, however, failed to moderate China's belligerent posture.
The main thing is that these politicians are not like the dull and moderate mainstream.
Much has been made of the reasonable and moderate tone of the Democratic National Convention, compared to the “dark,” snarling bombast of the Republicans’ event.
After World War II, however, long swings in economic activity continued, while only moderate price and inflation patterns emerged.
This trend can be seen in the United States, where, under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the Republican Party has become practically devoid of moderate voices.
The moderate Sunni Gulf Arab emirates, suspicious of growing Shia ascendancy and of Iranian irredentism in the region, have stopped propping up Syria’s economy due to its alliance with the ayatollahs of Iran.
While the more moderate Hillary Clinton is likely to defeat the recklessly isolationist Donald Trump, the backlash against openness that has fueled Trump’s rise will not dissipate on its own.
Some historians argue that Indonesia’s moderate form of Islam reflects the way in which foreign traders introduced it, as early as the fourteenth century.
In Indonesia, however, Abduh’s vision of Islamic modernity sparked the creation of the country’s largest modernist Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, which represents mainstream moderate Islam in Indonesia.
The state established a wide network of educational institutions that support this moderate tendency.
Syriza – which comprises a variety of left-wing groups, from those on the far-left to the more moderate social democrats – has roots in the Greek Communist Party, which played an important role in resisting German occupation during World War II.
Relations with Egypt and Jordan will also be affected, and hopes of collaboration with the moderate Arab camp will be frustrated.
Doing so is the responsible thing to do, offering the opportunity to moderate the government’s policies and reduce the danger of a disaster.
Are moderate Islamic intellectuals facing increasing criticism and challenge?
The authorities have natural allies in the large, moderate Muslim organisations, especially the Nahdhatul Ulama and the Muhammadiyah, that lead Indonesian civil society.
The greater challenge is the ongoing struggle within the worldwide Islamic community, the Ummah, between moderate, progressive Muslims on the one hand and fundamentalist extremists on the other.
Finally, moderate Muslims must explore Indonesia's vibrant and indigenous Islamic traditions.
Yet in domestic terms the Islamist regime is likely to be better off than it would have been with a more moderate result.
The amendment was moderate and entirely reasonable, yet it went down to defeat, 33-61, also on May 6.
Indeed, the FARC’s proposal – centered on protecting the rural farmers who make their living cultivating illicit crops, including by establishing a legal market for such crops – is relatively moderate.
While the Fed is raising interest rates, Europe and Japan are planning to keep theirs near zero at least until the end of the decade, which will moderate the negative effects of US monetary tightening on asset markets around the world, while European unemployment and Asian overcapacity will delay the upward pressure on prices normally created by a coordinated global expansion.
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