According to O'Fallon, "More appears to have been a man of moderate Jeffersonian sentiments and attachments, who nonetheless joined in a Federalist defense of judicial independence".
Both sides, he said, "need to moderate nationalist sentiment".
Does turning a blind eye to the Israeli settlements in the West Bank that frustrate a two-state solution, and the Israeli blockade of Gaza that radicalizes its population, not undermine U.S. interest in bolstering moderate Palestinian sentiment?
And then, besides the Democrats and the Republicans, there are the swing voters, the people in the middle — except that Rove hates that frame of reference, with its implication that politics entails persuading wishy-washy centrists by offering them broad, vague, moderate sentiments.
Given Indonesia's traditionally moderate Islam, anti-Jewish sentiments were never strong.
In the hands of Muḥammad and his successor Ibrāhīm al-Imām (c. 701 749), the Hāshimīyah became a political instrument for stirring up anti-Umayyad sentiment among moderate Shīʿite and non-Arab, especially Iranian, converts to Islam.
But what is most alarming amid these developments is that despite Japan's democratic and pluralist society, rising nationalist sentiments are sidelining moderate views and preventing rational dialogue.
That comment sounded more like conservative Republican sentiments than the moderate Democrat Mr. Kaine is presenting himself as, but it may well find its way into attack ads as the race heads into the homestretch.
The big story of 1996, then, may be the tentative resurrection of moderate Republicanism--as a sentiment and a strategy, if not yet as an organization.
On these occasions he gave speeches that, though moderate in tone, encouraged nationalist sentiment.
