Sentence examples for being tempered from inspiring English sources

Far from being tempered or mellowed by age, his ambition has only been sharpened by it.

The housing boom in Australia is buoying the country's big banks, but it is being tempered by weakness overseas.

He says that better-than-expected results from radio and broadcast television are being tempered by weaker results from newspapers, magazines and Internet firms.

"The refinancing boom is being tempered by the lack of capacity to refinance loans, because mortgage servicers are at full capacity".

As the details of the exchange become public, the near universal joy that greeted the original announcement is being tempered with concern.

This is not the case, and it is the result of market forces being tempered by social norms rather than by a cartel.

Risk-taking is tempered.

Yet optimism must be tempered.

It's tempered glass.

But the celebration was tempered.

McCullin was tempered by war.