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  • Sen. Lieberman also contends that we do a disservice to modera te Muslims if "we are unwilling to define and describe the enemy as dramatically different from them."

    Name It and Claim It, or Name It and Inflame It? 2010

  • But late in the interview, Powell was walked, oh so delicately, into the past by modera ...

    Harry Shearer: What Did Powell Know, and Why Isn't He Subjected to the Pelosi Treatment? 2009

  • But late in the interview, Powell was walked, oh so delicately, into the past by modera ...

    Harry Shearer: What Did Powell Know, and Why Isn't He Subjected to the Pelosi Treatment? 2009

  • Aristotle, fully committed to the politics of modera - tion, rejected Plato's ideal state as a form of despotism, however benevolent.

    CONSTITUTIONALISM DAVID FELLMAN 1968

  • If oligarchy and democracy are inherently unstable, always tending towards tyranny, polity gives promise of that modera - tion which is the only sure guarantee of stability.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

  • Great was their amazement when they saw the man whom they had so grievously wronged acting not only with modera - tion and strict justice, but in a kind and forgiving spirit.

    New Forces in Old China : An Inevitable Awakening 1904

  • And he shall well do both, if wiselie he do appointe diuersitie of tyme, & separate place, for either purpose: vsing alwaise soch discrete modera-tion as the scholehouse should be counted a sanctuarie against feare: and verie well learning, a

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • Tu forse qui attendi il mio giudizio: assolvo il popolo, se credere si dee alia fama, benchè abbia potuto e castigate più mitemente, e con maggior dolcezza vendicare il suo dolore: ma non cosi facilmente, si modera un 'ira giusta insieme, e grande in un numeroso popolo principalmente, nel quale il precipitoso, ed instabile volgo aguzza gli stimoli dell' iracondia con rapidi, e sconsigliati clamori.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

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