He was a moderate supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
The Commune, however, was skeptical of the safety of the Convention, worried about any moderate supporters who may deter them from making the arrest.
A 90% turnout from a party's radical base is often better than a 50 percent turnout from both radical and moderate supporters.
The Republican Party's more moderate supporters (there still are some of them, presumably) and its financial backers will be looking for a leader to beat Obama.
Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig party.
Many moderate supporters of the dictatorship began abandoning it in the face of growing revolutionary sentiment.
This was a group, named after a type of cavalry formation, which had first opposed the Union but developed into moderate supporters of it.
The group eventually came to include both conservative opponents of last year's bill and more moderate supporters.