Sentence examples for her temperance from inspiring English sources

The story is based loosely on real events including the appearance of Carrie Nation and her temperance fighters, who were the vanguard of Prohibition, on the scene.

Of course the chairman of Amy Winehouse's record label would probably dub anything "sensational" - from Winehouse's health to her temperance - if it would sell a few albums.

The story is based loosely on real events — including the appearance of Carrie Nation and her temperance fighters, who were the vanguard of Prohibition, on the scene.

Even if Aristotle begins with topics that seem most obviously applicable to the virtuous behavior of an individual – her courage or her temperance, her dispositions or her voluntary choices, for example – the Ethics shifts over the course of its ten books to topics that are decidedly more interpersonal in nature.

A teacher and her temperance-touting sister wonder whether to forgive William for committing the crime and themselves for not anticipating it.

Reichs is not what you would call a natural-born writer, so the emotional responses of her heroine, Temperance Brennan, to the atrocities to which she bears witness can elicit more squeamishness than the actual bones and tissue she digs up.

Other causes attracted her support, including temperance, abolition of capital punishment, relief of the poor, and, especially, prison reform.

There are 206 bones in the human skeleton, and Kathy Reichs seems to be juggling all of them in 206 BONES (Scribner, $26.99), the 12th book in her series featuring Temperance Brennan, a brainy forensic anthropologist who shuttles between demanding lab jobs in Charlotte, N.C., and Montreal.

Fans of Reichs style of writing and her portrayal of Temperance Brennan will find more of the same.

More than 100 soldiers died and are buried on the property north of the Wick House — which is also where Mr. Wick's daughter, Temperance, hid her horse from mutinous soldiers who tried to steal it from her, thus becoming a young hero of the Revolutionary War.

She earned worldwide fame for her stance on slavery, temperance, penal reform and women's rights.