Sentence examples for temperate actions from inspiring English sources

Aristotle remarks that "someone might be puzzled by what we mean by saying that we become just by doing just actions and temperate by doing temperate actions.

For one might suppose that if we do just or temperate actions, we are thereby just or temperate". Aristotle wants to correct a possible misconception of what it is that he's claiming.

In particular, he wants to point out that although it is a necessary condition on being just and temperate, that one do just and temperate actions, it's not a sufficient condition.

We become builders by building, harpists by playing the harp, in the same way we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions," he is explaining to us the utility of recognizing the connection between normative laws on the one hand ways we think we want to be and descriptive laws on the other ways that we find ourselves naturally becoming.

Earlier this month, when Obama held a press conference at which he announced a few temperate executive actions to tighten background checks for gun purchasers, he said, "Now, I want to be absolutely clear at the start and I've said this over and over again, this also becomes routine, there is a ritual about this whole thing that I have to do—I believe in the Second Amendment.

Earlier this month, when Obama held a press conference at which he announced a few temperate executive actions to tighten background checks for gun purchasers, he said, "Now, I want to be absolutely clear at the start — and I've said this over and over again, this also becomes routine, there is a ritual about this whole thing that I have to do — I believe in the Second Amendment.

"This is a normal course of action in temperate conditions, and we have all the technology, equipment, people and expertise to deliver the Games," Cathy Priestner Allinger, the group's executive vice president for sport and games operations, said in an e-mail message.

In the present study, field observations and model simulations were conducted to examine the process of sediment production due to freeze and thaw action in a temperate climate region.

The Vice President's environmental rhetoric occasionally employs off-the-charts doomsday exaggeration, but as a national leader, Mr. Gore has taken actions that have been temperate and sensible.

The civic virtues are concerned with the virtuous actions of ordinary life wise, temperate, just and courageous.

If I were in charge of weather, I'd serve up sunny and temperate days to avoid a class action suit.