Sentence examples similar to a tempered escalation from inspiring English sources

A White House spokesman offered a tempered reaction.

He has a tempered admiration for the profit system.

The Biwa is not a tempered instrument, so pitches are approximated to the nearest note.

While slightly higher than expected, its financials were met with a tempered reaction from investors.

She closes with a joke, albeit a tempered one.

The delta function is a tempered distribution, and therefore it has a well-defined Fourier transform.

This raises the question, When is a surge an escalation?

Sure, he had a reputation as a short tempered hothead, but how bad could it be?

A swift escalation.

This would be a serious escalation.

That last statement represented a rhetorical escalation.