Sentence examples for moderate contingent from inspiring English sources

Ahmadinejad appeared at particular risk of being unseated by one of his moderate challengers, former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, around whom much of the country's moderate contingent had coalesced; pre-election polls suggested a tight contest.

Ahmadinejad appeared at particular risk of being unseated by one of his moderate challengers, former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, around whom much of the country's moderate contingent had coalesced.

Despite what Orrin Hatch is saying on Hardball, the Democrats have a sizable moderate contingent and it is important to keep them happy and influential.

Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd also lamented the "impasse" between the Tory party's hard-line Brexiteers and its more moderate contingent, stressing that a second referendum might be the way forward.

CDA, he writes is 'a "moderate" or "contingent" form of social constructivism', based on 'a realist approach which claims that there is a real world, including the social world, which exists irrespective of whether or how well we know and understand it' (Fairclough 2010a: 4,5).

To get anywhere, Mr. Carter needed help from what was then still a sizeable contingent of moderate Republicans.

But Democratic leaders realized that they were at risk of losing the votes of a contingent of more moderate Democrats who did not want to be left vulnerable for voting against a resolution to stop Al Qaeda, officials said.

Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, one of a contingent of self-described moderate Democrats who held back support of the bill until a controversial oil provision was removed, is facing a potentially bruising reelection fight against a progressive outsider who's earned the backing of some environmental groups and labor unions.

Eric Raymond, a leading open-source advocate, writing in his online "Jargon File," described the politics of the archetypal open-source programmer, whom he calls J. Random Hacker, as "vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent, which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely".

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has had to walk a tightrope for more than two years now, balancing more moderate members against his determined tea party contingent and resulting in several false starts on major bills.

His successor's first task will be to hold together a disparate parliamentary group, divided between left-wingers and moderates, between vestigial socialist centralism and the Quebec contingent's desire for devolution.