Sentence examples for temper and for from inspiring English sources

Mr. McPherson, who only recently signed a new contract with Disney, was known for his temper and for frequently refusing to speak to ABC executives on his team.

Duffus was twice excluded from school, leaving at the start of year 11: "It wasn't like I was a bad child, but I lost my temper, and for that I lost my education," he says.

At Time Inc., he became famous for his writing, his drinking, his good and bad temper, and for such bits of heroic foolishness as listening to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in his office at peak volume, with his ear pressed against the phonograph's speaker.

I'm talking about Christine Quinn, the City Council speaker who's notorious for her temper and for screaming at anyone who dares disagree with or cross her.

Forewarned is forearmed--the step-parent has to know going into the family that these conflicts will come up and have a strategy for not losing his/her temper and for persuading the parent to deal with things.

By [20, 22], the random variable (z(theta_{t} omega)) is tempered, and for every (omegaintilde{Omega}, tmapsto z(theta _{t} omega)) is continuous with respect to t. Especially, the properties (lim_{trightarrowpminfty}frac{vert z(theta_{t} omega)vert }{vert tvert }=0) and (lim_{trightarrowpminfty}frac{int_{0}^{t} z(theta_{s} omega ),ds}{t}=0) hold.

Contemporary European accounts portray him as an Ethiopian Peter the Great, both for his hot temper and cruelty and for his courage, ambition, military genius, and interest in technology.

The gifted Anakin also manifests some of the traits that will eventually pull him over to the dark side: arrogance, a hot temper and contempt for democratic institutions.

Normandy was once known for its lawlessness and, according to La Voix, there is still as much hot temper and disregard for law in lower Normandy as there was in 1450.

Mr. Ditka, who has made news with his enthusiastic drinking and gambling, volcanic temper and support for public executions, withdrew from the race Wednesday night after several days of flirtation.

They remembered his hair-trigger temper, and how, for a while, he hired someone to follow him around to see that he did not end up in a fight — or, eventually, in an anger management class.