"What this referred to was that Finland was nominally free of the Soviet Union, but was so threatened by it, it could not act unilaterally without tempering its actions so as not to offend its giant neighbor, which could crush it at will.
Sensible media would have seen the problem coming and tempered their actions.
China hopes to use its economic power to encourage Pyongyang to return to the stalled six-party nuclear talks and to temper its actions.
In the second call between Trump and Xi in less than two weeks, Xi urged all sides to temper their actions.
This was a spiritual pollution that the press in China were forbidden to report.Since then Mr Tung has had to temper his actions to take account of local, as well as international, sentiment.
"So I don't think I have to change that much, but I will temper those actions if I can".
Washington should temper its actions -- the means -- based on moral principles.
Some have said that strong pressure on the military leaders — many of whom were as ardently Roman Catholic as they were anti-communist — might have tempered their actions.
In the face of international opprobrium, the commanders of the militant Albanians seem to be tempering both their actions and demands, observing -- like the Serbs -- a cease-fire brokered by commanders of the Kosovo peacekeeping force.
Filled with the requisite bombast, lusty scenes of Daniel-Craig-as-Bond staring menacingly at the camera, saving the world, making out with pretty women, traversing snowy mountains, dry deserts, ocean coves in search of bad guys, the "Writing's On the Wall" clip tempers the action with Smith's rich voice and dramatic phrasing.
Our experimental results demonstrate that IL-21 negatively regulates lymphocyte numbers in the periphery, perhaps by tempering the pro-survival actions of IL-7.
