Sentence examples for impulse to temper from inspiring English sources

But then comes her impulse to temper things.

"Why wouldn't you use it?" Mario Cuomo's challenge now is to temper his impulse to speak his mind and refrain from his trademark conversational jujitsu.

The Chinese have made their Olympics an exultant display of athletic prowess and global prestige without having to temper their impulse to suppress and control.

Having suffered brain damage during a 1988 motorcycle accident, Busey's ability to temper his impulse control was severely impaired, according to a doctor on a season two episode of Celebrity Rehab.

The natural inclination is there, but it's almost as if, as we get older, we start to temper those impulses.

Both parties, when facing each other, have the good sense to temper their headstrong impulses to some extent, yet there were enough apparent differences of opinion here to sustain a creative tension.

In practice, though, I imagine Reagan would have been game to go it alone when the United Nations tried his patience, and Bush, for his part, has found it useful to temper his unilateral impulses.

Jo agrees to try, and in her grief learns to temper her more rebellious impulses and to play a soothing, homemaking role for her family.

Dick Cheney never wanted to temper anything, including his temper.

"You try to temper him," he added.

"He just needs to temper his enthusiasm.