Sentence examples for Temperance from inspiring English sources

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Temperance

noun

Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence

  • Temperance in eating and drinking

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Just as one can coherently acknowledge the excellence of temperance while wondering whether one is morally obligated to act temperately, one can coherently acknowledge the excellence of justice while wondering whether one is morally obligated to act justly.

Many were attracted to Thomas Cook's tours because, as a supporter of the temperance movement, Cook's original trips were alcohol free.

Hundreds of different beers line the back room walls like wallpaper and are available to imbibe on the spot or to purchase individually for take out; which is a much rarer thing than you'd think, as Pennsylvania liquor laws are mostly relics imposed in the 1930s by temperance heads, still sore about the repeal.

A new temperance movement of surprising force has banished smokers from offices, restaurants and bars in a lengthening list of countries.

In Faliraki, a Greek island resort where locals once so despaired of young drunk northern Europeans vomiting everywhere that they banned pub crawls, some are now desperate for the tourists to come back.The media, too, are struggling to cope with the rising temperance of youth.

In a few there is no overall trend to temperance: drug-taking and youth violence both appear to have increased in France in recent years.

In 1879, it was bought by temperance campaigners.

It, and the eight countries that have supplied troops to help bring aid and hold the ring, seem keen to give the election a cleanish bill of health then clear out within a month or so.Albania's rulers-elect are talking an unBalkan language of conciliation and temperance.

But ordinary drinking dens are becoming a little drier, too, out of business sense rather than temperance principle.

At these prices, shoppers can buy enough booze to exceed the government's recommended limits for little more than £3 a week.A growing temperance movement seeks to end this bonanza.

WHEN the Reverend Henry Solly, a temperance campaigner, founded the first working men's club in 1862, one of his aims was to keep the membership away from gin palaces.

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