Tempered Sentence Examples

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  • She was even- tempered and calm and quite as cheerful as of old.

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  • From April till October hot southerly winds blow by day; at night the heat is tempered by seabreezes.

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  • In the form of plate it can be tempered and annealed till its elasticity and toughness are much increased, and it can then be formed into almost any shape under the hammer and punch.

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  • The coast is hot and humid all year but tempered by strong off-shore breezes.

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  • This smaller version doesn't have the built-in flavor infuser; however, it does have all of the other great features such as the non-stick surface and the detachable thermostat, as well as the tempered glass lid.

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  • The taste of Louis XIV., tempered by the study of Addison and Pope, gave its tone to the.

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  • Thanks to the political and religious unity which a common worship of the emperor and of Rome gave them, thanks to administrative centralization tempered by a certain amount of municipal autonomy, Gaul prospered throughout three centuries.

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  • Thanks to him, the duke of Enghien (Louis de Bourbon, afterwards prince of Cond), appointed commander-in-chief at the age of twentytwo, caused the downfall of the renowned Spanish infantry at Rocroi; and he discovered Turenne, whose prudence tempered Conds overbold ideas.

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  • But the other, the philosophic current, had been set going in the 18th century; and the policy of despotism tempered by privilege had been criticized in the name of liberty as no longer justifying itself by its services to the state.

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  • Moreover, he was doubtless well acquainted with a very ancient tradition, that heroes generally came from the northern frontiers of their native land, where they are hardened and tempered by the threefold struggle they wage with soil, climate and barbarian neighbours.

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  • With a 4% ABV this session ale has a pronounced floral hop aroma tempered with an underlying roasted malt character.

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  • The cost of aged balsamic vinegar is tempered by the fact that a little bit goes a long way.

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  • Climate From April to September the coast has warm, mainly dry weather tempered by sea breezes.

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  • However, their interest is tempered with considerable caution.

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  • Available in a smart silver lacquered finish, it features 12mm tempered glass top plate, concealed castors & concealed castors & concealed cable management.

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  • It can make you slightly crabby, slightly short tempered, so drink lots.

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  • Patient enthusiasm for transplantation must be tempered by discussion of the risks associated with surgery, chronic immunosuppression and the rejection process.

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  • The climate is tropical, tempered by constant sea breezes and there is little seasonal temperature variation.

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  • Treated with a seriousness and dignity, well tempered by gentle humor, at times they actually seem more self-aware than the adults.

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  • Like our own Mary Chain, the guitars create a symphony of noise which is tempered by wonderfully warm melodic moments.

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  • Each section has six rows of oil tempered spring tines.

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  • All four of the saucepans have heat tempered glass lids with steam vents.

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  • Though the islands are under the equator, the climate is not intensely hot, as it is tempered by cold currents from the Antarctic sea, which, having followed the coast of Peru as far as Cape; Blanco, bear off to the N.W.

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  • During the summer months the heat is tempered by a fresh sea-breeze, and there is usually a sharp fall of temperature at night; but in spring and autumn the east and south-east winds, which blow across the heated depression of the Ghor, are enervating and oppressive.

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  • But the effect of its southern latitude is tempered by its peninsular character, bounded as it is on both sides by seas of considerable extent, as well as by the great range of the Alps with its snows and glaciers to the north.

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  • It is warm always, but tempered by pleasant sea-breezes; very hot when the sun is northing; irregular rainfall, but usually dry during the north-east, and very wet during the south-west monsoon.

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  • A ratio of 48 to is the minimum allowable; better 60 to 75 to 1, and for highly tempered steel ropes ratios of 150 to i or more are desirable.

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  • The homely terseness of his style, his abounding humour - rough, cheery and playful, but irresistible in its simplicity, and occasionally displaying sudden and dangerous barbs of satire - his avoidance of dogmatic subtleties, his noble advocacy of practical righteousness, his bold and open denunciation of the oppression practised by the powerful, his scathing diatribes against ecclesiastical hypocrisy, the transparent honesty of his fervent zeal, tempered by sagacious moderation - these are the qualities which not only rendered his influence so paramount in his lifetime, but have transmitted his memory to posterity as perhaps that of the one among his contemporaries most worthy of our interest and admiration.

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  • Though these Triumphs, as a whole, are deficient in poetic inspiration, the second canto of the Trionfo della morte, in which Petrarch describes a vision of his dead love Laura, is justly famous for reserved passion and pathos tempered to a tranquil harmony.

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  • That 's where the test comes and the steel is strengthened when it 's tested, tempered, when it goes through the fire.

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  • Glass All glass tabletops are made of tempered glass for the safety of our customers.

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  • However, this anger is soon tempered by the realization that China offers the world 's largest untapped export market.

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  • However, enthusiasm needs to be tempered with a constant realism.

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  • Tart lemons, tempered by sweet raspberries and even sweeter buttercream or fondant frosting, is a dream combination, and your guests will surely appreciate the fresh flavors and elegant presentation of the bright berries and lemon slices.

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  • A loving, even tempered breed that is quick to learn but can be obstinate if not trained from the beginning, a Portuguese Water Dog can be the dog for you.

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  • Bullmastiffs are fully devoted to their masters, highly intelligent and even tempered.

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  • New tempered glass makes it very safe for use in railings, but it often must be installed by a professional.

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  • While researchers continue to try to understand why people need to sleep, lack of sleep makes people irritable, easy to annoy and short tempered.

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  • Once you have spells charged to your wand and you've tempered some charms you should start using them.

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  • Keep you wine bottles out of direct sunlight - For refrigerator models, you need not worry about direct sunlight because the doors are made out of tinted, tempered glass which effectively blocks sunlight.

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  • All chocolate that is available to the public is tempered and ready to eat.

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  • The reason we want the chocolate to keep temper is that tempered chocolate sets quickly without streaks of cocoa butter and is hard and shiny.

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  • By making sure that the emotional nature of purchasing homes is tempered by following practical new home buying tips, you're sure to make a wise decision when finalizing your residential real estate purchase plans.

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  • And of course, there is an element of sexuality to it tempered by a safety blanket.

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  • The grilling plate is non-stick and can be covered with the tempered glass lid to aid in capturing the moisture and juices into your food.

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  • The best containers for making gel candles are those which are made of tempered glass.

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  • Tempered glass is best since the candles burn quite hot.

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  • I love my ex-girlfriend very much but she has serious trust issues and is extremely controlling and hot tempered.

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  • The coast has a warm, Mediterranean climate tempered on the eastern coast by southwest trade winds.

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  • As Darkyn had said, the underworld tempered his Immortal magic, but Rhyn felt the demon power broiling behind the constraints, seeking a way out of him.  He was sticking to his plan, though he no longer had time to find Death.

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  • Each of these influences, which early in life must have been familiar to him, tempered and modified the other.

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  • Crispis methods aroused great outcry in the Radical press, but the severe sentences of the military courts were in time tempered by the Royal prerogative of amnesty.

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  • Here the tropical heat is tempered by constant trade winds, there is perfect immunity from hurricanes, the soil is peculiarly suited for cane-growing, and by the use of specially-prepared fertilizers and an ample supply of water at command for irrigation the land yields from 50 to 90 tons of canes per acre, from which from 12 to 14% of sugar is produced.

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  • Scott's The Fourth Gospel (1906) gives a lucid, critical and religiously tempered account of the Gospel's ideas, aims, affinities, difficulties and abiding significance.

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  • Peckham's zeal was not tempered by discernment, and he had little gift of sympathy or imagination.

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  • Its intense pride, its fatalistic indolence and ignorance, its honesty and its bigotry, tempered by a keen sense of humour, are well-known characteristics.

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  • The difficulty of smelting the ore was probably one reason for this, as well as the now forgotten skill which enabled bronze to be tempered to a steel-like edge.

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  • Two court-singers, Sallama and Ilababa, exercised great influence, tempered only by the austerity of manners that prevailed in Syria.

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  • Another society, less hospitable, less happy, less contented, but also less mild, better tempered for building states, and more " progressive," took the place of the old.

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  • The climate, which is generally described as healthful, is hot and humid on the coast, tempered by the cool trade winds; but in the more elevated regions it is very hot and dry, although the nights are cool.

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  • Extremes of temperature are not so great as farther inland in the same latitude; for the summer heats are tempered by the sea and the cool north winds, and the winter cold is so constant as to be less severely felt than the changing temperature of more southern districts.

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  • The hot season lasts from March to June, but is tempered by cool sea-breezes; from June to September the weather is close and oppressive; and from October to February the cold season brings the north-easterly winds, with cool mornings and evenings.

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  • Extremes of heat and cold occur, but as a rule the winters are dry and mild, while the summer heats are tempered by the perpetual prairie breezes, and the summer nights are usually cool and refreshing.

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  • Seizin, however, was granted in 1220 to Thomas his brother and heir, but the estate was again forfeit in the next generation for a new defection, although the wind of the royal displeasure was tempered by the fact that Isabel de Creoun, wife of Maurice, lord of Berkeley, was the king's near kinswoman.

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  • They glow with passion, and yet with all their rapidity is such steadfastness, the fervour of imagination is so skilfully tempered by close and plausible reasoning, and the whole is wrought with such strength and fire, that we hardly know where else to look either in Burke's own writings or elsewhere for such an exhibition of the rhetorical resources of our language.

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  • But while the summer is thus relatively ungenial on the top of the Harz, the usual summer heat of the lower-lying valleys is greatly tempered and cooled; so that, adding this to the natural attractions of the scenery, the deep forests, and the legendary and romantic associations attaching to every fantastic rock and ruined castle, the Harz is a favourite summer resort of the German people.

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  • But it ought to be remembered that this severity of the law early began to be tempered by the power to grant dispensations.

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  • Their effort is to expound Christianity, not from the point of view of philosophy like the Hegelians, nor from that of an abstract conception of religion, tempered by regard for historical precedents, like Schleiermacher, but from its own, from the Christian point of view.

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  • In summer the heat is tempered by the prevalence of a north-east wind that blows down the channel of the Bosporus.

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  • This tardiness in authorship is a significant fact in his life, in harmony with his tempered wisdom.

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  • Bronze containing about 7 parts of copper to 1 of tin is hard, brittle and sonorous, and can be tempered to take a fine edge.

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  • Socket is manufactured from chrome vanadium steel hardened tempered and chrome vanadium steel hardened tempered and chrome plated.

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  • Features include 8mm tempered glass shelf, a pull-out drawer to store your favorite DVD / CD collection & rubber feet.

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  • In post-war Germany, the harsh realities of pure free-market economics were tempered by political concerns for decades.

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  • Our top of the range stainless steel coffee mill uses hardened, tempered conical burr grinders with over twenty settings.

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  • God 's mercy In the Book of Jonah, God 's justice is tempered with mercy.

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  • Elsewhere, the driving wall-of-sound force of Good Morning Joan, tempered by sweetly tinkling bells, is sublime.

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  • You can buy one with a tempered glass top, one made entirely of wood or one that is fashioned out of one sheet of aluminum or steel.

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  • Polarized lenses can create an effect called cross-hatching that makes car windows (made of tempered glass) appear to have a pattern of lines, splotches, or large dots in the glass.

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  • This is due to the stresses created in tempered glass by the tempering process.

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  • A striking blend of plum and berry, the color is tempered slightly by a hint of brown and also has a faint hint of shimmer.

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  • Bold eye makeup ideas can also be tempered with more neutral shadow shades if the look ends up being too colorful for your tastes.

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  • The bright, invigorating scent of guava is tempered by a subtle base note of coconut and further sweetened by a hint of pomelo.

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  • It's important to always be even tempered, and consistant so she realizes she is safe with you.

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  • I want to produce the prettiest and best tempered puppies possible.

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  • The confidence and security that is kindled by a fixed duplicity can cause problems in a relationship when it is not tempered by a good character.

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  • His bond to Katie tempered what was otherwise a disaster of epic proportions.

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  • In general they are characterized by a firm adherence to the fundamental articles of Catholic orthodoxy, tempered by a tolerant attitude towards those not of "the household of the faith."

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  • The self-government of the mirs and volosts is, however, tempered by the authority of the police commissaries (stanovoi) and by the power of general oversight given to the nominated " district committees for the affairs of the peasants."

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  • A clear conception of his life at this time, and of the respect which he inspired by the discipline in which he held his men, and of the generosity which tempered his fiery nature, is given in chap. xxv.

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  • As the jar works off, or grows more feeble, by reason of the downward advance of the drill, it is ' tempered ' to the proper strength by letting down the temper-screw to give the jars more play.

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  • The heat of summer (December-March, which is the rainy season) is tempered by cool breezes; winter (MaySeptember, inclusive) is dry, cold and bracing, and frost prevails for prolonged periods.

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  • There are certain instances in his life which, taken by themselves, show a hardness in treating individuals who would not obey; but as a rule, he tempered his authority to the capacity of those with whom he had to deal.

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  • The theoretical absolutism of the sultan had, indeed, always been tempered not only by traditional usage, local privilege, the juridical and spiritual precepts of the Koran and the Sunnet, and their 'Ulema interpreters, and the privy council, but for nearly a century by the direct or indirect pressure of the European powers, and during the reigns of Abd-ul-Aziz and of Abd-ul-Hamid by the growing force of public opinion.

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  • The heat usual in subtropical countries is tempered by the cool breezes, and the atmosphere is dry and bracing.

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  • Even despotism is tempered by assassination and the liability of revolution (Dicey, Law of the Constitution, 6th ed., p. 75).

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  • Even then Rousseau did not settle at once in the anomalous but to him charming position of domestic lover to this lady, who, nominally a converted Protestant, was in reality, as many women of her time were, a kind of deist, with a theory of noble sentiment and a practice of libertinism tempered by good nature.

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  • Like Buell, McClellan had tempered the tools with which others were to strike; he was not again employed, and in his fall was involved his most brilliant subordinate, Fitz John Porter.

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  • This brittleness has therefore in general to be mitigated or " tempered," unfortunately at the cost of losing part of the hardness proper, by reheating the hardened steel slightly,

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  • His politics might therefore have been described as Toryism tempered by sympathy, or as Radicalism tempered by hereditary scorn of subject races.

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  • The effects of concordats and bulls alike are tempered by the exercise by the civil power of certain traditional reserved rights, e.g.

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  • The climate is hot, although agreeably tempered by the S.E.

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  • If Wurttemberg suffered from a bureaucracy tempered by despotism, the Fatherland in general suffered no less.

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  • At Kabul the summer sun has great power, though the heat is tempered occasionally by cool breezes from the Hindu Kush, and the nights are usually cool.

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  • The extreme heat of the south-east is tempered by the extremely low humidity characteristic of the Great Basin, which in the interior of the two southernmost counties is very low.

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  • Dip the truffles in tempered chocolate or white chocolate to form a hard shell.

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  • The great sources of Greek poetry were no longer regarded, as they were by Lucretius and Virgil, as sacred, untasted springs, to be approached in a spirit of enthusiasm tempered with reverence.

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  • The way you react emotionally is tempered by your moon sign since it governs your emotional nature.

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  • Victor's success in the boardroom has tempered his success in the bedroom.

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  • His troubled relations with his children were tempered only by the love of his identical twin Stuart until Stuart’s misfortunate death at Adam’s hand.

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  • Finally, chocolate is tempered by being put through a precise heating and cooling cycle.

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  • The success of the album was tempered, however, by a shooting in Cincinnati after a show, which left the rapper's friend and personal assistant dead.

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  • They were absolute monarchies, but the power of the king was tempered by the extraordinary influence possessed by the hereditary sacerdotal class or Brahmans.

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  • He was of imposing presence and had great conversational powers; but his inflexible integrity was not sufficiently tempered by tact and civility to admit of his winning general popularity.

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  • Climate.-Uruguay enjoys the reputation of possessing one of the most healthy climates in the world The geographical position ensures uniformity of temperature throughout the year, the summer heat being tempered by the Atlantic breezes, and severe cold in the winter season being unknown.

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