Sentence examples for secular moderates from inspiring English sources

We have no independent, secular moderates".

But that is exactly what the urban, secular moderates, who actually did spearhead the Tahrir revolt, fear.

Hamas and the Islamists are rising, as the more secular moderates of Fatah, led by Mahmoud Abbas, the putative leader of a fledgling Palestinian state, are in decline.

WHILE it's good news that secular moderates are expected to dominate Pakistan's parliamentary elections on Monday, nobody here thinks the voting will spell the end of militant extremism.

He obliterated 16 rivals, some of them rising Republican stars, on the way to winning 37 states and building a coalition broad enough to include secular moderates in Massachusetts as well as evangelicals in Mississippi.

RELIGIOUS POLITICAL PARTIES -- Despite Sunni-Shiite rivalry, there could be understandings about the role of religion in the law between religious parties of both branches of Islam, putting them at odds with secular moderates, and the largely secular Kurdish parties.

Finally, America must empower secular, moderate and independent political forces that promote compromise and moderation.

But Mr. Barak and his associates insisted on such sovereignty, which even many secular, moderate Israelis consider important.

But over the long run, he said he could see a strong potential for a secular moderate position in the Middle East.

For some here, the new closeness with secular, moderate Turkey represents a move away from Syria's controversial alliance with Iran.

I appreciate the country's promise as a secular, moderate, tolerant, Muslim-majority nation perched at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, surrounded as it is by querulous nation-states.