"moderate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His return could represent a move by hard-liners to challenge the moderate Shiite clerics who now dominate Iraq.
- As a moderate cleric who preached patience to the faithful, Ayatollah Hakim has been a key factor in keeping Shiites behind the United States effort.
- The moderate clerics believe that the fastest antidote for radicalism is providing security, jobs and electricity, which they say will sway Shiites away from extremism.
- In orthodox Iran, a relatively moderate cleric who preaches tolerance and studies Kant and de Tocqueville has been elected President.
- Karim Bourti was charged with assault after beating a moderate Muslim cleric in an attempt to extort funds from him.
- But an alliance of moderate Muslim clerics, women's advocates, civil court judges and divorce lawyers endorsed the reforms.
- And another court issued an arrest warrant for a popular moderate cleric who was accused of insulting Islam because he attended a recent conference in Berlin on democracy.
- The Parliament speaker, Mehdi Karoubi, is a moderate mid-ranking cleric who had previously avoided confrontation with hard-liners.
- His mosque, which is located in al Qassim Province, is known among more moderate clerics as a "terrorist factory."
- Even the moderate Shiite clerics were shaky on these issues and now their standing appears to have been weakened by the current surge of anti-Americanism.
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