But all my work for many years was focused around the idea that sustainability means basically looking at the globalized economic growth model, and moderating what comes in at one end, and moderating the outputs at the other end.

The MINUGUA good offices mandate was an outgrowth of the United Nations role in moderating the peace negotiations.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Hogan spokeswoman Amelia Chasse defended the governor's actions, arguing that blocking the comments was nothing more than moderating them.

At the Asian Development Bank, we predict that its growth will slow to 7.7 this year, from 9.3 in 2011. The PRC s population is aging, real wages are rising, and growth is moderating toward more sustainable rates.

Specifically, an appreciating dollar improves the price competitiveness of European and Japanese companies in the US and other markets, while moderating some of the structural deflationary pressure in the lagging economies by causing import prices to rise.

But, if counter cyclicalists are right to favor moderating, rather than exacerbating, upswings and downswings in the economy, we still need to know what works best. Given recent conditions, is monetary or fiscal stimulus the more effective instrument?

Uncertainties about the economy are likely to insert an element of caution into companies investment decisions. In short, it is more likely that moderating investment will exacerbate the consumer slowdown than that an acceleration of investment will offset it.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Egyptian army was restoring democracy. And the former US ambassador James Jeffrey drew on Turkey s experience, and the 1980 coup in particular, to argue that the military could help in moderating Islamist movements.

With regard to Iraq, since George W. Bush s presidency, the United States has strived to exert a moderating influence on Shia power, so that the country can create a more inclusive political system specifically, by passing a new law on sharing oil export revenues among the Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish communities. Unfortunately, the precise opposite happened. nbsp

American citizens resistance to moderating energy consumption for the sake of the global environment is much more deeply embedded. Consider former US Vice President Al Gore, for example, whose documentary film on global warming,An Inconvenient Truth, is celebrated for its unflinching look at how fossil fuel consumption is leading mankind to the brink of catastrophe.

With regard to Iraq, since George W. Bush s presidency, the United States has strived to exert a moderating influence on Shia power, so that the country can create a more inclusive political system specifically, by passing a new law on sharing oil export revenues among the Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish communities. Unfortunately, the precise opposite happened.

Moreover, Uruguay s political structures will invariably have a moderating effect on any government that might be elected. Regardless of the president s political slant, if the FA remains in office, the social democratic reforms of recent years are likely to continue, although with different emphases and considerable variations imposed by the economic cycle and the government s political resources.

While no one from either the Bush or Obama administrations attempted to defend American style free wheeling capitalism, European leaders argued for their social market economy, their gentler form of capitalism with its social protections, as the model for the future. And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.

He would not be able to lean on Brazil, the moderating regional power, but would inevitably fall under the sway of Chávez and Morales, deterring foreign investors and harming the country s foreign relations. Cuba is out of the question as a patron, due to its preoccupation with Raúl Castro s efforts to reshape its depleted economy in an improbable bid for Chinese style capitalism in a one party state.

In fact, the economic reorientation of the US pivot corrects a policy that had overemphasized the military component and put the US on a path toward conflict with China. It was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who signaled a more hawkish US stance on China with her tough talk at the 2010 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum in Hanoi now she is moderating that position by promoting trade and investment during her visits to Asian countries.