Sentence examples for temper hardship from inspiring English sources
Coming amid soaring need and bitter debt debates, the findings in Monday's release are likely to offer fodder both to defenders of safety-net programs and fiscal conservatives who say the government already does much to temper hardship and needs to do no more.
Invariably the mixture of euphoria and exhaustion felt when refugees and migrants landed on Lesbos was tempered by the hardship they also encountered.
Forced labor and lack of food pulled 100 pounds off his 6'3" athletic frame, the physical hardship tempered by the kindness of a German sergeant who recognized a Polish last name and saw to it that regular food rations, as well as shoes, did not disappear.
Aleksandr German's brilliant film about the early 1930's, "My Friend Ivan Lapshin," shot in the sepia tones and sharp contrasts of the period, touched a yearning for a time when rampant poverty and hardship were still tempered by a residual revolutionary idealism, soon to be smothered forever by Stalin's terror.
By focusing on nostalgia not for prewar pleasure but for prewar pain, Levi shrewdly evokes a time when hardship too had an innocence, when it tempered the human spirit rather than extinguishing it.
The hardship and inequality of the process have frayed tempers in austerity-hit countries and generated resistance – and partial non-compliance – which in turn have irritated the leaders of countries offering the "rescue".
Arvella wants her daughter to be strong enough to withstand loss and hardship, and Arvella can seem harsh, but Ms. Close tempers her hard edges with subtle warmth, mainly conveyed through glances rather than words.
For the millions of still unemployed men out there, I hope that their hardships are also tempered with countless blessings.
"Hardship happens to you.
