Word: temperedness
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Delaware Senator Joe Biden came across as the boldest in poking at the others, but he tempered his remarks with deft jokes on himself. "I'm officially 6 ft. 8 in.," said the candidate accused of lacking substance. Pause. "Unfortunately I'm standing on my record." Even the departed Gary...
Above all, the English prototypes were there to study, so that in the 18th century American furniture makers and metalworkers could achieve the freedom and finesse of detail, the robustness of design that come only from full historical awareness tempered by regional shop practice and local material. Thus they invented...
The campaign was an ill-tempered four-week ordeal, with Labor's main hatchet man, Shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey, variously comparing the Prime Minister to Catherine the Great and Genghis Khan. The electorate looked on in apparent bemusement at a campaign that rarely sent the national pulse racing and...
Scholars of United States international relations hail the plan, and its author, for exhibiting a sense of idealism that was tempered with shrewd diplomacy. They say that the Marshall Plan confirmed that the victorious American government would be committed to pursuing the role of a leader among nations.
Although tempered by a rise in imports to record levels, the report was hailed by many economists as a sign that declines in the value of the U.S. dollar are finally beginning to pay off in easing the trade imbalance.