7 sentences with 'moderate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word moderate and other words derived from it.
• « Caffeine, present in coffee, is an alkaloid that in moderate proportions soothes some aches and pains, reduces fatigue, improves coronary circulation and promotes diuresis; in excessive quantities, it causes very severe damage. »
• « Several moderate African countries, including Morocco, Zaire, Senegal and Ivory Coast, have also sent him supplies. »
• « To keep taxes moderate, Persian kings only called up armies (of both Persians and conquered peoples) when there was a war; otherwise, the only standing army was the king's 10,000 elite bodyguards that the Greeks called "Immortals". »
• « Most Cynics were slightly more moderate, but most liked to mock people in positions of political authority, and they also disparaged members of other philosophical schools for their overly rigid systems of thought. »
• « The 95 Protestant Theses were relatively moderate in tone. They attacked indulgences for leading to greed rather than piety, for leading the laity to distrust the Church, and for simply not working - they did not, Luther argued, absolve the sins of those who bought them. »
• « The initial period of the Catholic Reformation, from 1540 to 1550, was quite moderate and aimed at bringing Protestants back into the fold. »
• « According to conservatives, the French Revolution had begun, in its moderate phase, arguing for the primacy of the common people, but it quickly and inevitably spiralled out of control. »