Sentence examples for attempt to moderate from inspiring English sources

They do not, except for the United States, attempt to moderate the effects of these policies on production.

His surrogates forcefully stripped the platform of all signs of immigrant-bashing, and made an unsuccessful attempt to moderate the plank opposing gays in the military.

More recently, the authorities have been deploying every piece of policy artillery they can muster in a vain attempt to moderate this summer's plunge in equity prices.

We would welcome an attempt to moderate our statute that would make it a little easier for the commission to say, 'These matters are coming to us and we don't think they've got any real legs at all'.

The PAN has been run in recent years by doctrinaire conservatives led by Mr Castillo, whose pedantic style left voters cold and defeated an attempt to moderate the party's image.

Although the positions of the United States on the one side and Britain, France and Germany on the other over Iran's nuclear intentions have moved closer during the past year, the three European governments remain committed to negotiating with Iran in an attempt to moderate its behavior, while some members of the Bush administration favor punishing Iran with a Security Council resolution.

As prime minister and elder statesman (genro), he attempted to moderate his country's increasing militarism in the early 20th century.

The end result of the philosopher and author of Utopia Thomas More's principled attempts to moderate Henry VIII's ingenious pragmatism is too well known to comment upon.

Amorium October 2, 829 Michael II, (born, Amorium, Diocese of Asia died Oct. 2, 829), Byzantine emperor and founder of the Amorian dynasty who attempted to moderate the Iconoclastic controversy that divided 9th-century Byzantium.

Michael II, (born, Amorium, Diocese of Asia died Oct. 2, 829), Byzantine emperor and founder of the Amorian dynasty who attempted to moderate the Iconoclastic controversy that divided 9th-century Byzantium.

International outrage at Egypt's brutal crackdown on dissent intensified on Monday after three journalists for Al-Jazeera English were sentenced to up to a decade in jail for endangering Egypt's national security in a verdict that dealt both a shocking blow to Egyptian free speech and a humiliating rebuke to American attempts to moderate the worst excesses of Egypt's security state.