1.   Any reconciliation between moderate Taliban leaders and the royalists could constitute a breakthrough in the quest for a new government.

2.   Any rapprochement between moderate Taliban leaders and the royalists could constitute a breakthrough in the quest for a new government.

3.   Aslan Maskhadov, the moderate leader of Chechnya, is already urging talks.

4.   Aside from Amien Rais, a moderate Muslim leader who enjoys the affection of students, nobody has emerged as the voice of the movement.

5.   Because Cheney had already achieved status as a Washington insider, however, he was also close to more moderate Republican leaders who were less confrontational with the Democrats.

6.   A more moderate leader, a well-educated man, said more calmly that no foreigner could go into the tribal areas without permission.

7.   A moderate political leader who describes himself as a pacifist and who accepted the agreement at Rambouillet, France, Rugova said his views had not changed.

8.   Adams did, however, meet with John Hume, the moderate nationalist leader whose overtures to Adams several years ago precipitated the cease-fire.

9.   Bush, in assembling an international coalition against terrorism, would like the support of moderate Arab leaders such as Abdullah.

10.   Bush, in an interview aired Friday night on British television, made it clear that he would rather deal with more moderate leaders in the region.