Sentence examples similar to moderate zeal from inspiring English sources

They moderate religious zeal, making religion an everyday practical reality.

On a later occasion, Pope St. Zacharias was forced to moderate the zeal of Boniface, who requested not only excommunication but also solitary confinement for two "heretical" missionaries, Adalbert and Clement the Irishman sentences that the pope avoided imposing by deliberate delay.

In the past, many kept silent, or moderated their zeal.

"But we don't want to threaten our members or create a panic," he added in afterthought, cautiously moderating his zeal.

In normal times, moderates could have restrained the zeal on the left.

But it highlights the party's real dilemma, for it needs both the votes of moderates and the zeal of the extremists.

Both before and after 9/11, he was the odd man out: a careful tactician in an administration driven by visionary zeal; a moderate and multilateralist in an administration inclined toward unilateral and pre-emptive action.

In his zeal to appear moderate, Mr. Chen rivals even the hypercautious Mr. Lien.

This is the happy place of the modern Tory moderate: all the energy and zeal of communal rage, but none of the unfortunate and ugly ethno-nationalism.

By way of an answer, she made it sound as if her chief concern was to defend moderate French Muslims from the zeal of Islamic extremists.

Yet they have long performed vital functions -- like clarifying the distinctions between different philosophies of society and government, tempering the pursuit of private interests and moderating the effects of "factitious zeal".