It's the achievement of a consolidated, moderate, authoritative leadership.

The best way to prevent negotiation is to decapitate the moderate leadership.

"But in the long run a more moderate leadership may gradually emerge."

A populist in political philosophy, Thompson was often at odds with his state and national moderate Republican leadership.

Yasir Arafat, in the Palestinian context, still represents the moderate national leadership.

The convention closed the Ohio chapter and re-opened it under more moderate leadership.

"I do believe voters will want to return control of the House to a more centrist, moderate leadership," she said.

In West Bengal, a few of these meetings became battlegrounds between the most radical elements and the more moderate leadership.

Furious about their loss of land and privileges, landowners are gradually pushing out Arena's moderate leadership.

At the same time, it has badly undermined the arguments of Montenegro's moderate leadership that good things come when you cozy up to the West.