Sentence examples for less extreme position from inspiring English sources

Although the decision was recognized as enhancing the less extreme position of the PLO elements led by Arafat, the United States continued adamantly to refuse to recognize or deal with the PLO so long as the PLO refused to recognize Israel's right to exist.

Many investors and technologists believe that software patents should be abolished all together, while others take the less extreme position that many software patents are obvious over known prior art ("prior art" being earlier publications that show a patent  is obvious or not new).

Simulating a more extreme position might evoke a more intense primary sensory experience in the observer than a less extreme position, and thus produce a greater aesthetic effect.

36 37 38 One explanation for reduced drinking in both intervention and control groups is regression to the mean, in which extreme measures of behaviour tend to shift to less extreme positions from one time point to another.

Lee then shifted to the less extreme but still leftist position, & in '59, when the P. A. P. won control of Singapore's Legislative Assembly, it had the help of a strong pro-Communist faction.

Christie is less extreme in some social positions than others in his party, but the main reason Christie crosses the center aisle, it seems, is less to work with Democrats than to clothesline other Republicans.

(Van Inwagen 1994 and 1995 is another proponent of the idea that free will is exercised in but a small subset of our choices, although his position is less extreme on this point than Campbell's. Fischer and Ravizza 1992, O'Connor 2000, Ch.5, and Clarke 2003, Ch.7 all criticize van Inwagen's argument for this position).

But the closer music gets to our own time, opposing positions become less extreme.

Anand (2004) defends a less extreme version of this view.

Moreover, Clinton's public positions on gun control are far less extreme than suggested by the ad.

The network is valued because parties pronounce pro or con positions on issues in more or less extreme ways.