Word: temperment
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...doubt many readers are as disgusted as I by China's use of coerced sterilization and abortion. But perhaps we should temper our shock by recognizing that China, with more than 20% of the earth's population, has a real and extremely serious population problem for which there may not be any painless or entirely humane solutions. The Chinese have a collective cultural memory of famine and mass starvation. We need to be aware of the reasons and rationale for China's population-control policies. John Coffee Marietta, Georgia...
...doubt many readers are as disgusted as I by China's use of coerced sterilization and abortion. But perhaps we should temper our shock by recognizing that China, with more than 20% of the earth's population, has a real and extremely serious population problem for which there may not be any painless or entirely humane solutions. The Chinese have a collective cultural memory of famine and mass starvation. We need to be aware of the reasons for China's population-control policies...
...What you have, Professor Matory, is brashness, I’ll call it courage,” Mansfield said. Nevertheless, he advised Matory to temper the personal nature of his attacks and instead infuse them with humor...
...Peter Mandelson E.U. Trade Commissioner We should not begrudge China the fruits of its development and the benefits of its wto membership. But if China does not understand the need to temper its impact on the rest of the world, it risks provoking a dangerous backlash from those who should be its friends and partners...
...realized how little I knew about this ‘prince-alty,’ save that it was stolen from the French by pirates centuries past. Of course, there was that interview in “Vogue” with Marat Safin, the tennis star with the hottest temper (and body). He had half-seriously, half-jokingly expressed interest in moving here to escape those pesky things called taxes...