Sentence examples for moderate became from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bizimungu, a Hutu moderate, became president when Tutsi rebels ended the bloodbath and set up a government.

Calling Kasich "moderate" became an observation about his unwillingness to discuss his opponents' body parts, rather than his own policies, which were not all that moderate.

This spring, Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, nobody's idea of a moderate, became the Republican face of a financial reform effort aimed at addressing the problem of "too big to fail" banks.

In 2013, shortly after Hassan Rouhani, a political moderate, became president, Rezaian wrote about the tension within Iran over chanting "Death to America".

Gerry, who had originally been somewhat moderate, became increasingly partisan during his tenure, and Federalists viewed Strong's earlier success in office and relatively modest demeanor as assets.

How has it come to this – when did "moderate" become an insult?

The pain, which was at first moderate, becomes more intense.... Now it is a violent stretching and tearing of the ligament, now it is a gnawing pain and now a pressure and tightening.

A similar logic applies to the sustainability of debt, where what matters is not the rate of inflation or rate of deflation, but the interest rate on the debt less the rate at which prices are changing.Deflation can, in theory, depress demand if it is no longer moderate, becomes entrenched, and interest rates hit the zero lower bound.

In the late 17th century a large group of essentially professional clergymen known as Moderates became influential in the church.

By mid-1791, however, moderates became uncomfortable with the Jacobin Club, where Robespierre was emerging as a dominant figure.

In the early 2000s, when many of Colorado's moderates became disillusioned with the Republicans, who were fixated on social issues like gay marriage, the pendulum swung back the other way.