Sentence examples similar to tempered conviction from inspiring English sources
For Ms. An, the desire to escape her rural life was tempered by the conviction that taking the exam was risky.
I suppose all this must have eventually dropped away as people got jobs, formed long-term relationships, tempered their political convictions.
But his conviction is tempered with patience that such changes will only come over the longer term.
Earlier this year Bruce Springsteen, in a keynote address at the SXSW music industry festival in Texas, hailed Guthrie's "fatalism tempered by practical idealism", and conviction that "speaking truth to power was not futile".
Lincoln tempered but never really abandoned that conviction.
Reason cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence". Lincoln tempered but never really abandoned that conviction.
But he's also reflective, and his convictions appear to be tempered by humility and that element of self-doubt which we believe goeself-doubt whichith courageous leadership.
The pervasive culture of conviction-seeking in prosecutors' offices must be tempered by an overriding goal of justice.
First, it reinforces the tempered radical's sense of the importance of his or her convictions.
Hubris tempered by humility.
