Sentence examples for picked moderate from inspiring English sources

And, even though Clinton generally picked moderate nominees, after 1995 Republicans in the Senate blocked about a third of them.

He intervened in at least three Senate races, overruling local favourites and picking moderate candidates more to his liking.

Mr. Obama seems likely to pick moderate justices, who would probably not take the court back onto a distinctly liberal path, but also would be unlikely to create an unbreakable conservative bloc.

At one point, Michael Brown kneeled at the crotch of Silverman, as if he were bowing to him, after Silverman said he planned to register as a Republican to ensure that the GOP picks moderate prez candidate.

In the month, Windows 8.1 picked up moderate market share, and Windows 8 eased as expected, meaning that Microsoft's new platform is seeing slow total growth.

Or does he pick a moderate?

himself, he can hardly pick a moderate businesswoman like Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina.

Instead he cautions, very gently, about the dangers of the Republican party picking a "moderate" rather than a died-in-the-wool conservative like him.

But the narrowness of the defeat for Cuccinelli, who had been as much as 12 points behind in the latest opinion polls, may temper Republican disappointment and help soften calls for the national party to pick more moderate candidates in future.

Clinton needs to pivot to the center and pick a moderate to appeal to middle class suburbanites.

Hillary Clinton is going to have to do something to give them a reason to support her -- and picking a moderate, bland-o, middle of the road old white guy as her running mate is not the kind of edgy move that tells millenials that their vote is important to Hillary.