Sentence examples for moderate nations from inspiring English sources

Arguing that more can be accomplished for the Palestinians by keeping lines of communication open, Egyptian diplomats managed to tone down militaristic proposals from less moderate nations and to fend off increasingly strident demands for a definitive break.

A 2006 survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that significant majorities in Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey - all among the most moderate nations in the Islamic world - said they did not believe Arabs carried out the attacks.

While some countries favored a tougher line in order to fill their depleted coffers, OPEC's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, found support from other moderate nations that believed the global economy remained vulnerable, and that higher crude prices could jeopardize an eventual recovery.

Reaching out more actively to the moderate nations of the Caucasus and Central Asia opens great opportunities and can set an example of mutually beneficial relations.

You write that one character, a builder named Zbigniew, "had once had a sense of the British as a moderate, restrained nation.

I really believe that Iran is a moderate nation with great history and civilization.

We'll wake up from the nightmare on 24 June remembering we're a moderate nation, unseduced by Pied Pipers of far right or left.

The reason many are concerned about exactly who runs Algeria is largely down to the fact it plays a key regional role as a producer of oil and as a relatively stable, moderate nation in an often chaotic part of the world.

I notice that Crown Prince Abdullah recently called on your country's leading clerics "to examine with restraint every word that leaves our mouths, [because] Allah has said in the Koran: 'We have made you a moderate nation.' " I also noticed that you told a group of Saudi religious leaders that "what is important here is for a centrist trend [in Islam] to grow gradually.

The idea of moderate nation-building points to an open multi-culturalism, in which every group receives its share of remedial rights but, instead of walling itself off from others, participates in a common, overlapping civic culture and in open communication with other sub-communities.

Mr. Bush avoided the politically hostile ground of San Francisco, where he received just one in six votes in 2000, for the more moderate land of the nation's technology capital.