Sentence examples for temperance with from inspiring English sources

She links here maturity with femininity, and femininity with relative coldness of temperature, thus extending the claim that cold blood supports greater intelligence to the claim that cold blood supports superior moral strength, by claiming that cooler blood encourages temperance with respect to pleasure and desire.

Toasting to "temperance" with a half-glass of red and wearing a white blouse and chic black Calvin Klein vest from the '90s (her first piece of swag ever, she confided) Courtney was in radiant form.

In addition to lexical and historical differences, moderationism holds that prohibitionism errs by confusing the Christian virtues of temperance and moderation with abstinence and prohibition and by locating the evil in the object that is abused rather in the heart and deeds of the abuser.

Pemberton went to work on a "temperance drink" with the same "medicinal" effects, and he introduced Coca-Cola in 1886.

A man who's been drinking gives a temperance lecture with a bottle of whiskey in his pocket.

Beginning with home visitation and tract distribution by volunteer lay missionaries, the city mission movement expanded into Sunday school, day school, and temperance activities with paid missionaries; and eventually it provided food, lodging, employment, and medical care for the destitute and sick.

But just as today's sex-and-the-city, girly-girl babes look askance at the Ms. magazine generation that paved the way, so the flappers distanced themselves from their more earnest beneficiaries, the down-in-the-trenches suffragists -- maiden aunts, as they saw them -- who had cut their political teeth in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with all its puritanical overtones.

As it's done so, it's taken its calls for temperance legislation with it, leaving the libertarian wing of the Republican party ascendant.

As it has done so, it has taken its calls for temperance legislation with it, leaving the libertarian wing of the Republican party ascendant.

This "denial of choice" syndrome is the 21st-century zeitgeist sickness that echoes the anti-temperance movement only with science substituted for morality.

But these need to be viewed with temperance.