Sentence examples for models of moderation from inspiring English sources

India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has previously called on business leaders to "eschew conspicuous consumption" and "be role models of moderation".

The temperance movement held Jews up as models of moderation at the same time that Jews (and German immigrants, among others) viewed Prohibition as a potential infringement on their religious and civil liberties in a nonsectarian state.

The Kurds are unlikely to feel contented in any of these countries, even if their governments became models of moderation, without a generous measure of autonomy in the regions in which they predominate.

Mr. Erdogan sought to portray himself as a model of moderation.

An example is Zimbabwe, now independent and a model of moderation, due to the influence of the Carter Administration.

Afghanistan's new Constitution is mostly a model of moderation, guaranteeing many rights and freedoms for men and women.

Replicating this model of moderation and pious prosperity will be hard work in Tunisia, a country with staggering levels of unemployment and 25 percent illiteracy.

By way of contrast, Mr Rouhani has been a model of moderation towards the US and Israel since his inauguration, though he has not announced any changes in policy.

Even at Occidental College, during what he has called his dissolute phase, students remember him as a model of moderation: not the pot-smoking, booze-swilling Barry of "Dreams From My Father," his first book, but a morning jogger who studied hard and might allow himself a puff of a joint here, an extra beer there.

But if you're looking for a best-case scenario for a Romney presidency, you have to hope that his Mr. Fix-It impulses will work out for the best — and that rather than being a model of moderation or a paragon of purity, he'll be a president who tries, and tries, and ultimately gets things right.

We followed them, and then this is what they do?" In Syria, where the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood once hoped to provide a model of moderation and democracy, some fighters battling President Bashar al-Assad now say it is the other way around.