Sentence examples for temper against from inspiring English sources

There's just as much tenderness when John D. Podesta recalls swearing matches with President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky affair as when Erskine Bowles insists that Mr. Clinton knew better than to wield his temper against him.

The court papers describe Mr. Flam as "a man with overstated expertise in Motherwell's work, a temper against any who would challenge him, and a desire to promote himself without regard for the legacy of the artist".

O'Neal took a while to find a rhythm and didn't lose his temper against Arvydas Sabonis and the rest of Portland's front line, who grabbed, fronted and bumped him no end.

Satin, the bad boy of the film's charter, was given deeper roots defining what provoked his violent temper against Sister.

Optimism is appropriate but must be tempered against experience and the realities of drug development.

The magnitude of any improvements in sensitivity obtained via this mechanism may need to be tempered against the detrimental effects of destructive interference, occurring when the form of sensory input differs from internal predictions.

In addition, preoperative neoadjuvant radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy regimens also promise to improve survival (Marsh et al, 1994; Anonymous, 1997; Pahlman et al, 1998; Dahlberg et al, 1999), but their success needs to be tempered against the inevitable morbidity associated with such treatments (Dahlberg et al, 1998).

If Mr. Tanenhaus is correct that many Americans feel "unease" toward government's role in our daily lives, it is either because they take much of what the federal government does for granted, or because the media tend to give a disproportionate voice to those whose ideological temper tantrums against government make for good copy and sound bites.

The RNC threw a temper tantrum against CNBC for their moderator's performance and demanded less adversarial and more substantive questions.

Two other United States allies, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, have also supported the Egyptian military and sought to push back against Western entreaties that it temper its actions against the Brotherhood and the ousted government of President Mohamed Morsi and his supporters.

Still, Interpublic's chief executive, Michael I. Roth, tried to temper expectations, cautioning "against using the second quarter's very strong results to extrapolate results for the rest of the year".