This capability-gap ought to temper the inclination I see too often for human rights organizations to make accusations against those deserving of the proverbial presumption of innocence when all the facts have yet to be gathered.
Determined to make SSA the premier institution in the field, Edith Abbott recognized the need to temper her inclination toward a strictly theoretical orientation with attention to casework and practical training.
The board does, I believe, tend to temper the inclinations of presidents with de facto control, and it does contribute to the avoidance of excesses.
I still often feel that way, but I've tempered that inclination and tried to see more of the positive, non-food aspects that drive people to eat out.
So it happens in political affairs; if the motions of rulers be constantly opposite and cross to the tempers and inclinations of the people, they will be resented as arbitrary and harsh; as, on the other side, too much deference, or encouragement, as too often it has been, to popular faults and errors, is full of danger and ruinous consequences.
Khalil the father, whose heavy drinking fueled his imperious temper, showed little inclination to shoulder the responsibilities of a young family.
Although before long he became estranged from Nikon, whose violent temper and authoritarian inclinations had earned him many enemies, the revisions that Nikon initiated were retained, and the opponents of the reform were excommunicated.
It was expected that the delicate-if-uneven balance of power in Washington would help guide and temper Trump's inclinations to target his political detractors, and it has, for the most part.
Keeping a day job also tempers the entrepreneurial inclination to become anti-social which happens when you cut social ties to completely focus on your business.
Nicholas sympathized with the national aspirations of the Slavs and was anxious to win control of the Turkish straits but tempered his expansionist inclinations with a sincere desire to preserve peace among the Great Powers.
His unconventional views, his hedonistic inclinations tempered by a capacity for moral and political indignation, his prankish nature and his hatred of boredom all constituted for his contemporaries a blend of provocative contradictions.
