1.   As for the requirements on banks and brokerage firms, Smith said they sounded moderate.

2.   Hamas, which has legitimate social aspects as well as its deadly Qassam terror brigade, is now sounding more moderate as well.

3.   So they tempered their agenda to sound more moderate and worked to pass welfare and health-care reform.

4.   Both he and Arafat sounded moderate.

5.   In their speeches, Levy and Arafat sounded moderate, both shunning the well-worn rhetoric of the Israeli-Arab debate without agreeing on how to achieve peace.

6.   In their speeches Tuesday, Levy and Arafat sounded moderate, both shunning the well-worn rhetoric of the Israeli-Arab debate without agreeing on how to achieve peace.

7.   In their speeches, Levy and Arafat sounded moderate.

8.   On Tuesday, Levy and Arafat sounded moderate, both shunning the well-worn rhetoric of the Israeli-Arab debate without agreeing on how to achieve peace.

9.   Still, the program sounded moderate compared to the proposals of hard-line communist leader Viktor Anpilov.

10.   The Palestinian leader also sounded moderate.