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By virtue of the popular mandate that I received, I am committed to moderation and common sense, which is now guiding all of my government’s policies.
We believe that, under such circumstances, a voice of moderation in the region could affect the course of events in a constructive and positive way.
By participating actively in politics, basing their electoral choices on rational self-interest, and developing the sense of moderation needed to resist dictatorship, the middle class promotes democratic progress.
With lower inflation, this raised workers' real disposable income, enabling trade union leaders to demonstrate to their members that wage moderation worked and was in their interest.
He will soon have a European-wide platform to deliver his message of wage moderation and labor-market flexibility through his assignment to breathe new life into the EU employment strategy.
Billboards were erected appealing to Sunnis to preserve moderation.
Furthermore, pluralism and moderation remain the dominant forces in the country; tellingly, the Islamic State could not find a single Lebanese to volunteer to be its emir of Lebanon.
There is, for example, the country’s large and educated middle class and the historical moderation of Ez-Zitouna University, one of the oldest universities of Islamic theology.
On one hand, Ennahda wants to unite political Islam under an umbrella of moderation and modernity.
Iran’s theocratic mullahs allowed the election of Hassan Rowhani, a man who announced in his first speech as President-elect that his victory is “the victory of wisdom, moderation, and awareness over fanaticism and bad behavior.”
The theatre of politics makes permanent demands on us all, as dramatists, actors, and audience -- on our common sense, our moderation, responsiblity, good taste, and conscience.
Whether this profound change will be seen as a key moment in the consolidation of democracy in El Salvador, or as the beginning of a slide toward instability, will depend on Mr Funes’ ability to balance two complex and contradictory imperatives: calling for moderation across the political spectrum while implementing the deep social transformations that El Salvador sorely needs.
By all accounts a reasonable man, Funes faces an uphill battle in preaching moderation.
With her semblance of moderation, she is far more appealing than her father and former party leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
But Wall Street’s fiscal conservatives (yes, the same people who brought us this downturn) will now be calling for deficit moderation (reminiscent of Andrew Mellon in the Great Depression.)
Given the combination of factors that now conspire to throw bilateral relations off course, it is useful to remember that the responsibility of a superpower like the US is not simply to react in a visceral or self-interested manner to the world, but to lead with maturity and moderation.
The protesters’ trademark so far has been moderation and restraint; nothing would be more dangerous than violent repression.
The March 14 Alliance’s victory is good news for Lebanon and the region, ensuring good relations with Lebanon’s Arab and Western friends, and constituting a quiet triumph for moderation and pragmatism over extremism and confrontation.
Booming bilateral trade is no guarantee of moderation between countries.
Such moderation, taken alone, is welcome, of course.
Egypt’s Islamists traded violent militancy for moderation and participation when they started to compete in parliamentary elections under Mubarak.
If centrist elites do not prove themselves up to the task, those of the far right will gladly fill the vacuum, minus the moderation.
At the same time, he sidelined moderate, mainstream political leaders while claiming that he stood for “enlightened moderation.”
Traditional dietetic advice now seems banal, with its almost exclusive focus on moderation.
Given the current frenzy of fad diets and the eternal search for simple remedies for complex conditions, moderation in all things may seem like shabby medicine.
Both good and good for you, moderation became a commanding idea: by rooting medical advice in powerful systems of social values, dietetics shaped medical thought for centuries.
Nutritional experts today are more likely to suggest monitoring cholesterol levels than they are to give such holistic and common-sense advice as moderation.
There is room for moderation in both sides’ positions, but their leaders must be given the right platform on which to make the needed adjustments.
To be sure, with Trump demolishing the liberal international order and swivel-eyed nationalists running amok in Britain, Hungary, Poland, Italy, and elsewhere, Merkel deserves credit for offering a calm, reassuring voice of moderation.
Besides battling these more powerful Arab nationalists and Islamists, Arab liberals must deal with a wide range of issues, including the modernization or moderation of Islam, relations with the United States, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and women’s rights.
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