Not that Ibiza hasn't changed a lot in the 40-odd years since long-haired world travelers began descending on it from less temperate way stations like Goa, Morocco and Southeast Asia, taking over dilapidated farmhouses, called fincas.
Observing the proceedings, Garran admired the "moral and physical courage" of French premier Georges Clemenceau, whom he regarded as determined to protect France from Germany but in a measured and temperate way; in Garran's words, Clemenceau "always withstood the excessive demands of the French chauvinists, of the French army, and of Foch himself".
For all the stark differences in their ideologies and biographies, Romney and Obama are strikingly alike in their taut, tidy, temperate ways, each the perfect and photogenic patriarch of a perfect and photogenic brood.
Here they are working alongside scientists to study how human activity is affecting the way temperate and tropical forests are responding to climate change.
Southeast As more temperate climes give way to a tropical Caribbean influence, the seasons here compress into wet and dry; the continent ends in a confluence of wetlands and warm coastal waters.
Divisive and hot-tempered partisanship would give way to healing and temperate leadership, not least by means of Obama's eloquence, rational policies, and good faith.
Temperate language has given way to the intemperate.
It's nice down there, in an apocalyptic sort of way — a temperate rain cave, thanks to the misting spigots that are used to settle all the ancient dust.
Birds are particularly mobile, and some of temperate affinity found their way to equatorial peaks; for example, in the mountains of New Guinea are found pipits and thrushes that have no near relatives in the adjacent tropical lowlands.
Conifers of the family Pinaceae Pinus (pine), Larix (larch), Picea, and Abies (fir)—grow in vast, monospecific stands and give way to temperate deciduous forest to the south, tundra to the north, and moorlands (which contain Ericaceae [heath family], Carex [sedge], and Sphagnum moss in suitable areas).
Tropical productive natural forests are not managed in the same way as temperate forests or plantations, so modelling tools for carbon accounting developed for these forests (e.g. [28]-[30]) do not properly transfer to tropical realities.
