Sentence examples for temper ambition from inspiring English sources

Should ethics temper ambition?

When she is 22, Amaury, "a man with a past and the willful temper and ambition of the hard-born," a man not of her classe de gente asks her to a dance.

But the challenges don't temper Haines' ambition.

It bothers Sara Newman, a law associate on the partner track, that Clinton is under constant pressure to show her softer side and temper her ambition, to conform to what the public expects of women.

Lower prices will temper the ambitions of Russia, which lives on its oil and gas revenues.

"If they were included and recognised as a regional leader, they would temper their ambitions.

It would be a mistake to think that by tempering its ambition, Alias is playing it safe.

But funds for ambitious regeneration have dried up since New Labour's heyday and housing associations must now temper their ambitions to match.

In this first novel, which deftly melds magic realism with social satire, the hard-working fathers of a Rust Belt town abandon it en masse in the summer of 1991, forcing their sons to temper their ambitions and take over.

Still, the Tata group is not letting the bumps in the road temper their ambitions for the Nano's release in the U.S and Europe.

Despite keeping a relatively low profile over the past couple of years, Belgian indie dance duo Soulwax have not tempered the ambition that kicked off their now-legendary project almost two decades ago.