Sentence examples for while tempered from inspiring English sources

His interventionist impulse, while tempered by an embrace of free-marketry in the early 1990s, lingers.

While tempered by the grape-jelly flavor, the bourbon's hot bite still dominates.

Annealed glass breaks into shards at 6,000 pounds per square inch (psi), while tempered glass breaks into small pieces at no less than 10,000 psi and usually at around 24,000 psi.

She must propel herself to victory all the while tempering the fire that helps her do so.

City council meetings are pretty mind-numbingly mundane events, but every once in a while, tempers flare, passions run hot, and a concerned citizen launches into a fervent speech about legalizing happy endings or whatever.

Pugnacious as ever, Mr. Carter invites the performer's aggression while tempering it in more peaceful moments with echoing held-note sonorities.

The questions could be spirited, but the atmosphere tended toward the genteel: The National Journal once compared Mr. Sperling to "Toscanini beckoning the strings and woodwinds while tempering the brass section".

Wyler's "Westerner," produced independently by Samuel Goldwyn, reflects the self-conscious myth-making that quickly took over the revived genre, while tempering it with a comic tone that stops just short of outright parody.

This preserves the liver's creaminess while tempering its unctuousness, and it's rounded out with a brittle of cashews or pine nuts, a gelée of riesling or Sauternes, and litchi or pickled grapes.

Many Western leaders also hope that a pro-European government will be more likely to hand over indicted Serbian war criminals, while tempering its stance on Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in February.

Instead, Republicans need to seek a kind of integration, which embraces the positive aspects of the new populism — its hostility to K Street and Wall Street, its relative openness to policy innovation, its desire to speak on behalf of Middle America and the middle class — while tempering its Kurtzian streak with prudence, realism, and savoir-faire.