Mr Kinnock said he was a multilingual moderniser and manager with huge experience and intelligence.
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And the treasury's director-general, Mario Draghi, a former World Bank executive director, is regarded as a moderniser.
Although he is an ardent New Labour moderniser, Mr Hutton would immediately have realised the danger of his new position.
He was seen as a moderniser who led Turkey out of military rule and backed the US-led coalition against Iraq.
But the Britain of those days was a more hidebound place, and Mr Benn was right to be a moderniser.
"He will continue Abdullah's policy of slow and cautious change and ensure his legacy as a moderniser is secure, " he said.
And on May 19th, he announced that he would not be running (as did Esteban Moctezuma, like Mr Labastida a moderniser).
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Soper hailed Lamb as a moderniser and said the ECB had to be prepared to pay "top whack" for a suitable successor.
Mr Rafsanjani, a pragmatic conservative who had restyled himself as a cautious reformer, had been expected to face an out-and-out moderniser in the run-off.
It has lost its one-time front-runner (and would-be moderniser), Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Meanwhile, Mr Brown is these days in danger of becoming the champion of both the Labour left and the anti-European Tory press: a strange political base for the party's arch-moderniser.
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The nuclear reversal burnishes her credentials as a moderniser.
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Mr Brown has never done anything like this before: he urged Labour to contest the centre ground as a young moderniser, and helped inspire the party's centrist election campaigns in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
Mr Gyurcsany, once hailed as a young moderniser, never really recovered from the riots that erupted in autumn 2006 after his confession that his government had lied repeatedly about the state of the economy.
The kindest version is that he is indeed a genuine moderniser, and perhaps even a belated convert to democracy and European values, who is moving very slowly for the simple reason that he cannot go any faster.
Here to look ahead to that day and beyond is the man who wrote the General Election Manifesto, one of the most experienced members and yet most young of the current Cabinet, the current Shadow Cabinet, a key moderniser in the party, the Shadow Social Security Secretary David Willetts, good morning to you David.
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New chair Charles Walker has a reputation as a keen parliamentary moderniser, and this inquiry may be the vehicle for a process that at least ends the weekly farce of Commons hired guns "talking out" bills by making interminable and unimaginably boring speeches - forcing ministers to kill unwelcome bills in the light of day, rather than by stealth.
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