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I doubt he’s getting out of jail but if this were another county, the bail would have been higher, sometimes our ideals need to be tempered with experience. – Tom Grieve	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It will dampen inflation talk, we would prefer that inflation gets tempered and the Delta variant could temper it. That's not the way we want to temper it, of course. – Brian Wenzel	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It should also remind us all what is too easy to turn away from : there is evil in the world and the barbarians leading North Korea are a part of North Korea, one of the highlights of my time as secretary of state was bringing home three Americans from the clutches of such a regime. But the joy I felt that night was tempered by the knowledge that we could not do the same for Otto Warmbier and Otto Warmbier family. The promising future of Otto Warmbier was crushed by North Korea’s inhumanity. This makes our duty to remember Otto Warmbier so real for me. It would be fitting to name this street in New York City in honor of Otto Warmbier as a reminder to the North Koreans, and to the world, that America will never suffer brutal dictators without responding, that we value life and that we will not rest until those responsible for heinous actions like theirs have been confronted. – Mike Pompeo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in. – Mick Fleetwood	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
The industry is going electric but at a much slower rate than was expected a few years ago, while most automakers are dedicated to moving [ to ] electric, the global pandemic has tempered that shift for change. – Jessica Caldwell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue, hopefully, any annoyance at the disturbance is tempered by just how infrequent -- and amazing -- this event is. – Eric Day	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You might have wondered many a times that even though you plan and prepare yourself to deal with a particular situation, you end up in falling into trouble? Have you ever evaluated the reason for this? If you think over it, you will realise that it is majorly because of your negligence in realising the impulsive reactions that you make while taking the necessary steps into your work or journey. And with this impulsive reactions, you yourself create a conflict between your quick-tempered emotions and intelligence, And as you lose patience in understanding you make quick decisions, thus often end up falling into trouble. So, the trick which you need to learn, understand and practice is to have patience and calmness within yourself so as to build a habit to react only after understanding the whole situation. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 3 years ago
I'm very comfortable with risk that is tempered, i kind of think of it as courage. – Rich Barton	Found on CNN 4 years ago
That was a massive, massive relief. Initially we weren't certain they were all alive and as they were coming down I was counting them until I got to 13, all we could think about was how we were going to get them out, so there was relief tempered with uncertainty. – Rick Stanton	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
All we could think about was how we were going to get them out, so there was relief tempered with uncertainty, this is completely uncharted, unprecedented territory. nothing like this has been done before, so of course there were doubts, but I knew that we had a good team. – Rick Stanton	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I have matured. I'm tempered. I'm wiser. But I'm still the same guy President Donald Trump on Wednesday know yearning to serve President Donald Trump on Wednesday every chance I get, michael Grimm always goes the distance. – Michael Grimm	Found on CNN 5 years ago
[ Avenatti ] is hot tempered and used to having Michael Avenatti way – when Michael Avenatti does n’t Michael Avenatti gets extremely loud and verbally aggressive. – Lisa Storie-Avenatti	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The experience would be beneficial, but the chief of staff that's most effective is the one that knows what questions to ask, he is a very even tempered and thoughtful professional. He is very good at seeking advice and he makes an effort to consider views of career staff. – Jereon Brown	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are ready to work together with our Pakistani brothers to undertake the historical mission of national rejuvenation and achieve the great dream of national prosperity and development, in this way, our iron friendship with Pakistan will never rust and be tempered into steel. – Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Those who fear women deacons, or favor them, should remember how slowly Francis moves, any fear or hope that action might be taken soon should be tempered with that reality. – David Clohessy	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Well some of it, to be honest, is misinformed or uninformed, i have to believe though that whoever is elected president, which has to be a very, very sobering realization, that some of that rhetoric would be tempered. – James Clapper	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Only on rare occasions does celebration come so closely aligned with regret, the regret of what we left out was tempered by the enormous excitement we have in presenting the six books on the shortlist. – Michael Wood	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents. – Mark Linden	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Leonard Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives, as I grew up, he taught me that reason could be tempered with humor. That learned adults still had more to learn. That feminism and opposing prejudice was vital. And that there is no age too late to reinvent yourself. – Paul Roth	Found on CNN 9 years ago
While we still have time before the spring, new detachments will be able to receive military training, we expect mobilization to yield at least five additional brigades five motorized brigades, one artillery brigade and a tank brigade. The Ukrainian rearguard for the Debaltseve front in Artemivsk, the home of one of the country's best-selling sparkling wines, looks increasingly like a garrison town. Auto-mechanics and tire shops have seen a sharp pick-up in business repairing damaged vehicles brought in by soldiers. Abandoned Soviet-era plants have been converted into bases. The local stadium is used as a landing pad for helicopters ferrying out the wounded. Many troops are nervous, jumpy and ill-tempered. On Wednesday, a group of irregulars detained a group of international journalists in the center and threatened to escort them out of the town if they took pictures of military equipment. The cannonades are fainter in Artemivsk, but they can still be heard. The significance of that is lost on few. – Alexander Zakharchenko	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Only the U.S. constitution could sideline his presidency... As the administration that followed squandered the surplus with misguided wars, the devastation we face today would have been tempered today if he (Clinton) had continued as our commander in chief. – Sean Penn	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. – Wilson Mizner	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel. – Hindu Drama	added by anonymous 12 years ago
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I doubt he’s getting out of jail but if this were another county, the bail would have been higher, sometimes our ideals need to be tempered with experience.

– Tom Grieve

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It will dampen inflation talk, we would prefer that inflation gets tempered and the Delta variant could temper it. That's not the way we want to temper it, of course.

– Brian Wenzel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It should also remind us all what is too easy to turn away from : there is evil in the world and the barbarians leading North Korea are a part of North Korea, one of the highlights of my time as secretary of state was bringing home three Americans from the clutches of such a regime. But the joy I felt that night was tempered by the knowledge that we could not do the same for Otto Warmbier and Otto Warmbier family. The promising future of Otto Warmbier was crushed by North Korea’s inhumanity. This makes our duty to remember Otto Warmbier so real for me. It would be fitting to name this street in New York City in honor of Otto Warmbier as a reminder to the North Koreans, and to the world, that America will never suffer brutal dictators without responding, that we value life and that we will not rest until those responsible for heinous actions like theirs have been confronted.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

– Mick Fleetwood

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

The industry is going electric but at a much slower rate than was expected a few years ago, while most automakers are dedicated to moving [ to ] electric, the global pandemic has tempered that shift for change.

– Jessica Caldwell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue, hopefully, any annoyance at the disturbance is tempered by just how infrequent -- and amazing -- this event is.

– Eric Day

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You might have wondered many a times that even though you plan and prepare yourself to deal with a particular situation, you end up in falling into trouble? Have you ever evaluated the reason for this? If you think over it, you will realise that it is majorly because of your negligence in realising the impulsive reactions that you make while taking the necessary steps into your work or journey. And with this impulsive reactions, you yourself create a conflict between your quick-tempered emotions and intelligence, And as you lose patience in understanding you make quick decisions, thus often end up falling into trouble. So, the trick which you need to learn, understand and practice is to have patience and calmness within yourself so as to build a habit to react only after understanding the whole situation.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

I'm very comfortable with risk that is tempered, i kind of think of it as courage.

– Rich Barton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That was a massive, massive relief. Initially we weren't certain they were all alive and as they were coming down I was counting them until I got to 13, all we could think about was how we were going to get them out, so there was relief tempered with uncertainty.

– Rick Stanton

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

All we could think about was how we were going to get them out, so there was relief tempered with uncertainty, this is completely uncharted, unprecedented territory. nothing like this has been done before, so of course there were doubts, but I knew that we had a good team.

– Rick Stanton

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I have matured. I'm tempered. I'm wiser. But I'm still the same guy President Donald Trump on Wednesday know yearning to serve President Donald Trump on Wednesday every chance I get, michael Grimm always goes the distance.

– Michael Grimm

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[ Avenatti ] is hot tempered and used to having Michael Avenatti way – when Michael Avenatti does n’t Michael Avenatti gets extremely loud and verbally aggressive.

– Lisa Storie-Avenatti

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The experience would be beneficial, but the chief of staff that's most effective is the one that knows what questions to ask, he is a very even tempered and thoughtful professional. He is very good at seeking advice and he makes an effort to consider views of career staff.

– Jereon Brown

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are ready to work together with our Pakistani brothers to undertake the historical mission of national rejuvenation and achieve the great dream of national prosperity and development, in this way, our iron friendship with Pakistan will never rust and be tempered into steel.

– Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Those who fear women deacons, or favor them, should remember how slowly Francis moves, any fear or hope that action might be taken soon should be tempered with that reality.

– David Clohessy

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Well some of it, to be honest, is misinformed or uninformed, i have to believe though that whoever is elected president, which has to be a very, very sobering realization, that some of that rhetoric would be tempered.

– James Clapper

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Only on rare occasions does celebration come so closely aligned with regret, the regret of what we left out was tempered by the enormous excitement we have in presenting the six books on the shortlist.

– Michael Wood

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents.

– Mark Linden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Leonard Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives, as I grew up, he taught me that reason could be tempered with humor. That learned adults still had more to learn. That feminism and opposing prejudice was vital. And that there is no age too late to reinvent yourself.

– Paul Roth

Found on CNN
9 years ago

While we still have time before the spring, new detachments will be able to receive military training, we expect mobilization to yield at least five additional brigades five motorized brigades, one artillery brigade and a tank brigade. The Ukrainian rearguard for the Debaltseve front in Artemivsk, the home of one of the country's best-selling sparkling wines, looks increasingly like a garrison town. Auto-mechanics and tire shops have seen a sharp pick-up in business repairing damaged vehicles brought in by soldiers. Abandoned Soviet-era plants have been converted into bases. The local stadium is used as a landing pad for helicopters ferrying out the wounded. Many troops are nervous, jumpy and ill-tempered. On Wednesday, a group of irregulars detained a group of international journalists in the center and threatened to escort them out of the town if they took pictures of military equipment. The cannonades are fainter in Artemivsk, but they can still be heard. The significance of that is lost on few.

– Alexander Zakharchenko

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Only the U.S. constitution could sideline his presidency... As the administration that followed squandered the surplus with misguided wars, the devastation we face today would have been tempered today if he (Clinton) had continued as our commander in chief.

– Sean Penn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

– Wilson Mizner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel.

– Hindu Drama

added by anonymous
12 years ago

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

– Thomas Carlyle

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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