Sentence examples for tame position from inspiring English sources

Loeb is probably too conscientious about being balanced, leading him to the tame position that "[W]e'd do well to remember that our new technologies work best when we combine them with more traditional mechanisms of engagement".

For a tame opposition that enjoys some of the juiciest positions in the lower house of parliament, the Duma, that was very unusual.

Shultz, like Powell, was sometimes in the position of taming the in-house idealists, and like Powell, he sometimes suffered the slings of archconservatives.

Halls were places to cook, eat, have tame sex in the usual positions and, of course, grow homemade cress.

We are good at taking other people's radical advances and extreme positions and taming them, effecting peculiarly diplomatic compromises on unruly foreign extremes.

"From this exalted position, her unique role in the new republic would be to tame men's passions and maintain the purity of the home," Ms. Groneman writes.

The castle's positioning may have been to allow its garrison to guard the Tame Valley; both castle and valley were in the medieval manor of Tintwistle.

Having taken a 5-3 lead in a tame opening session on Friday, O'Sullivan dominated the next session to move into a commanding position at 11-5.

The tamer styling did wonders for sales; the Impala became the best-selling model in America, a position it would retain for a decade.

However, he quit his position after bandits killed his brother and amid feelings that he had failed to capture or tame the bandits.

If the crises in Italy and Spain cannot be tamed, France, as one of the major contributors to the cleanup operation, would be in an increasingly weak position.