Sentence examples for tamed from inspiring English sources

Coltart too might not have tamed the Tiger under any circumstances, but with a huge crowd lining the 9th fairway it is disgraceful that he was allowed to spend five minutes on a fruitless search deep in the woods for his ball when all the while it was nestling in the semi-rough only a few feet from the fairway.

His fiancee, Amal Alamuddin, is described in terms more appropriate to a wild animal hunter than a humanitarian lawyer: she "tamed" him, she "hooked" him, she "tied him down"; because Clooney is not just a handsome bachelor, you see: he is a wild leopard.

Shaw's assertion that Lever tamed his wolf before stuffing it and putting it on show strongly suggests that it was not "the last Wolf killed in Scotland by Sir E. Cameron" as Donovan later claimed.

So when it was announced in the spring that Clooney was engaged, the media claimed he had been "caught" and "tamed" – like a tiger, you see – by a human rights lawyer who is clearly about a million times more impressive than the actor.

I felt that I had tamed some of the anxious, depressed teenager who had struggled before, but would I be able to cope with the isolation?

But yes, the economy and jobs grew, the AAA rating was conferred and maintained, inflation was tamed, interest rates hit 60 year lows, debt is completely manageable, and Australia remained, throughout the past six years, the envy of the advanced Western economies.

If the unions cannot be tamed, Mr Peña's other reforms to open up the monopolised energy sector and overhaul the tax system may be similarly diluted.The runner-up in the election was the left-winger Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, who came a very close second to Mr Calderón in 2006 but lost to Mr Peña by 6.8%.

The concatenation of factors feeding into the Syrian morass, from meddling foreign powers to sectarian and class schisms, have created a perfect storm that may only be tamed by consuming itself.Which leaves only those small consolations.

But if they cannot be tamed, then the sooner this unwieldly giant is broken up and Mr Turner takes that ten-year break, the better.

The army was tamed through a series of court cases against alleged coup-plotters.

His mentor and predecessor as Labour leader, Gordon Brown, was resigned to the idea that finance was too mobile to be tamed by any one government.