In the late winter of 1968, with Nixon once more the front-runner, Rockefeller's unrealistic candidacy was promoted by, among others, the columnist Walter Lippmann, who despaired of the looming choice between Nixon and Lyndon Johnson and saw Rockefeller as someone "tried and proved and tempered in the hottest fires of modernity".
This did not lie primarily in developing the cast of his mind, and if in 1771 Burke stated that 'I have endeavoured all my life to train my understanding and my temper in the studies and habits of Philosophy', at the same time he concluded that 'my Principles are all settled and arranged'.[5] This did not preclude intellectual innovation.
A president must be able to comfort a nation in the worst of times and temper the euphoria in the best of times.
Reinforcing the hypocrisy that glues society together, her family chose to praise her benevolence and sweet temper in the memorial plaque they installed in Winchester Cathedral while pointedly not referring to her novels.
Yet, heroically keeping his cool and his temper in the face of such bigotry, Tibbs shows them his badge, proves he didn't do it – and then has to join forces with Gillespie to find out who did.
Of his marriage, Priestley wrote: This proved a very suitable and happy connexion, my wife being a woman of an excellent understanding, much improved by reading, of great fortitude and strength of mind, and of a temper in the highest degree affectionate and generous; feeling strongly for others, and little for herself.
In this paper, we compare three different flavors of metadynamics, specifically well-tempered, parallel-bias, and parallel-tempering in the well-tempered ensemble, to exhaustively sample the conformational surface-binding landscape of model peptide GGKGG.
Lucius illustrates his argument by means of a recent eclipse of the Sun, which, "beginning just after noonday, made many stars shine out from many parts of the sky and tempered the air in the manner of twilight".
Mr. Linder explained that he had lost his temper in the past and that nothing good comes from it.
When the Obama administration put forth the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the hope was that the $700 billion stimulus to the economy would halt the economic decline and temper the deterioration in labor markets.
