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moderates

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The Moderates are a regional centrist political party in Italy , active mainly in Piedmont . The party, whose leader is Giacomo Portas , is part of the centre-left coalition formed around the Democratic Party (PD).

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n. (plural of moderate English)

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The best thing now for royalists, constitutionalists, conservatives and moderates of every kind, for the friends of law and of order, is to stay at home -- too happy if they may be allowed to remain there, to which the armed rabble agrees.

Aristocrats, suspects, the doubtful, moderates, egoists, all gentlemen without distinguishing those who have done nothing for the revolution from those who have acted against it, await in retirement the ulterior measures required by the interests of the Republic.

Being egoists, it is presumed that they are hostile to the system of fraternity, at least indifferent to it, as well as lukewarm towards the Republic, that is to say, Moderates, which is the worst offense of all.

And, that none of the middle or upper class may escape, the edict subjects to special rigor, supplementary taxes, and arbitrary arrest, not alone property-holders and fund-holders, but again all persons designated under the following heads, - aristocrats, Feuillants, moderates, Girondists, federalists, muscadins, the superstitious, fanatics the abettors of royalism, of superstition and of federation, monopolists, jobbers, egoists, "suspects " of incivism, and, generally, all who are indifferent to the Revolution, of which local committees are to draw up the lists.

As to the 250 of the new third, these are liberals of 1789 or moderates of 1791,[42] most of them honorable men and many of them well-informed and of real merit, jurisconsults, officers, administrators, members of the Constitutional Assembly or Feuillants in the Legislative Assembly, Mathieu Dumas, Vaublanc, Dupont de Nemours, Siméon, Barbé-Marbois and Tronçon- Ducoudray.

But if your TOE is completed and announced, the moderates will have to admit that they've been proven wrong-and there's a chance they might hand over the antidote.

If she can be kept alive until someone announces the TOE on her behalf, would the moderates recant and hand over the cure?

The mainstream, the moderates, the extremists: we all made different assumptions-and we were all wrong.

The moderates had let me walk free, once they'd reasoned that they could still get what they wanted.

Proving the moderates | wrong and then begging them for the cure was no longer any kind of| shortcut.

The Moderates have agreed to vote for no matter what candidate, provided he is not a Jacobin.

Carnot said to the Moderates who asked him to act with them: "Even if I had a pardon in my pocket, amply confirmed by the royal mouth, I should have no confidence.

To restore order the municipality stations each company of the National Guard at its captain's door, The moderates among them naturally obey orders, but the violent party do not.

At Paris,[26] by means of a purifying and surplus ballot, the new Council of the Commune undertakes the expulsion of its lukewarm members, while d'Ormesson, the mayor elect of the moderates, is assailed with so many threats that, on the verge of his installation, he resigns.

Would you believe it, with moderates, aristocrats, owners of property, and very pretty women, elegantly dressed, seeking the caresses of the balmy spring breeze!