“Gentlemen, I was in the middle of it as the moderator, but I need you all who were observers to tell me what it all meant.”
“The moderator of the meeting shall preside at the meeting, announce the business before the meeting, preserve order, and decide all questions of order.”
“Then, too, he is an acceptable moderator to the candidates because he's firmly predictable.”
moderation
The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way
“It's an incredibly humane, kind film, and it reminds you that being humane and kind will always lead to radicalism, never to moderatism.”
“In such a case, the moderatism seems perfectly natural, which is exactly the goal.”
“On the Political spectrum scale, that intentionally skews towards moderatism, I scored 9 out of 10 in fiscal freedom and 7 out of 10 in social freedom.”