Word: temperance
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Ingram was especially pleased with Corriero's performance but was also quick to temper her excitement...
Avowedly representing a minority in Cambridge politics, Jens says he believes he can sneak onto the council without majority support through Cambridge’s proportional representation voting system, and temper the city’s liberalism with his quiet voice and right-wing stance...
...streets." She might have noted that the U.S. targeted and killed immense numbers of civilians when we used atom bombs on two Japanese cities at the end of World War II. In the midst of our grief and outrage, Americans need to examine our conscience and perhaps thereby temper the magnitude of the U.S. response with the humane values of justice, proportion and compassion. BILL EVANS Pueblo, Colo...
...Israel and the West but has made Moussa, who turns 65 this week, perhaps the most adored public servant in the Arab world. A career diplomat who held posts in India and at the United Nations, he is a man as famous for his hearty laugh as his explosive temper. In 10 years as Egypt's Foreign Minister, he sharply criticized U.S. support for Israel and Israel's treatment of Palestinians in interviews, speeches and finger-wagging lectures to visiting envoys. (His rows with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright are legendary.) Such was the public's adulation that...
...It’s almost a survival technique for Christians at Harvard. For funding and credibility, but also for personal relationships, they feel the need to temper their rhetoric,” Smith says...