Sentence examples for act of moderation from inspiring English sources
This act of moderation won him much praise.
ACORN's organizing push to freeze foreclosures in New York State earlier this year seemed so extreme that it helped position the passage of a responsible lending and foreclosure prevention law - one of the most far reaching pieces of legislation of its kind in the country - as an act of responsible moderation.
Paid staff editors have an unlimited number of moderation points.
On Monday night, she hosted a dinner at the Alvorado palace for her cabinet and 43 senators, who she asked to act a "force of moderation".
After this well-intentioned law was passed, in 1998, it weakened the links between candidates and civic and business groups that had acted as informal forces of moderation; the politicians didn't need their money, so they could ignore their advice.
That is why the Saudis have long acted as the voice of moderation within OPEC, resisting calls from price hawks such as Libya, Iran and, since the rise of Mr Chavez, Venezuela to squeeze consumers.Indeed, at the most recent formal OPEC meeting, held in Iran on March 16th, the Saudis in effect bullied reluctant cartel members into trying to calm prices down.
Realists since Thucydides have asserted "that states expand in the absence of countervailing power; unbalanced power will act without moderation, and states not subject to external restraint tend to observe few limits on their behavior".
There are signs of moderation.
You are hardly the voice of moderation.
Khatami provides a public image of moderation.
