Sentence examples for have been tempered from inspiring English sources

Evidently, Obama's hopes have been tempered.

My attitudes have been tempered by cold reality.

His typically high-octane ambitions have been tempered.

Her radicalism would have been tempered and her singularity quashed.

The galleries and ill will have been tempered.

They have been tempered by the recessions, oil shocks and currency turmoil that followed.

Sir Fred should have been tempered by his board and his chairman, Sir Tom McKillop.

In part, what this means is that extremes have been tempered.

Four decades of efforts to maintain access to open spaces have been tempered lately by fear.

Her critiques, she says, have been tempered by "a new spiritualism".

"Our expectations," he added, "have been tempered by the weak economy and declines in consumer confidence".