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43 examples of Tamed in a sentence

For wild women are not to be tamed.
Through his labors, Hercules tamed the world’s madness by atoning for his own.
Luckily, the emperor was at the dinner and tamed his temper.
The entire movie is like a tamed down Underworld with some drippy, romantic montages and very little action.
A feminist tract in which if you the viewer believe that: i) wild animals are seldom tamed by singing but instead attack, kill and eat (the line that grizzlies never attack unless provoked was a hoot - unless "provoked" means that it sees flesh); ii) homosexuality is both immoral per se -- and its acceptance almost always associated throughout history with signs of a society's dissolution and decay iii) few women are bisexual (in this one, virtually every woman is presented as having no preference for men or women) iv) divorce is far worse than infidelity v) land is there for human beings to use, develop and enjoy vi) it is as incumbent upon a mother of an adult son to keep in touch as it is upon the son vii) a mother raising her son alone is an unfortunate and real tragedy for the child viii) the idolization of a parent for worthwhile ideals is a good and healthy thing ix) adults continue to bear a responsibility for their sexual behavior, no matter their age, and the duty to engage in this most intimate and giving of acts only within the most intimate and openly sacrificial of relationships: marriage -- believe me, you are NOT going to like this film!
Director Moorhouse seems tamed in her approach, allowing the characters to step forward and take a bow.
This is a second rate, excessively vicious Western that creaks and groans trying to put across its central theme of the Wild West being tamed and kicked aside by the steady march of time.
Malone's metamorphosis at the end of the movie is stunning :suit and chignon,toying with a small derrick:she's ready for life,the rebel is tamed.
Two sequels followed, the first of which, "Magnum Force", tamed down on the delightfully politically incorrect attitude of the first one that had outraged many critics but enthused audiences.
You get a real sense of the wild west slowly being tamed, of it making the uneasy transition from a violent, lawless land to a reasonably civilized place where law and order stand a chance.
They also tamed the film, giving it a PG-13 rating.
I was divinely surprised by the causticity of Ken Loach I was considering as slightly tamed before seeing this film.
Tonight I want to tell you about the only man who ever tamed this land.
Well, he seems to have grown mature, but not tamed in that sense.
Understanding how the Great Inflation from the late 1960’s to the early 1980’s was tamed offers important lessons for addressing far-reaching economic problems, however different ours may be, and provides insight into the dangers that may lie ahead.
The Reagan tax cuts remained in place, and created a federal budget deficit that would not be tamed until President Bill Clinton started to bring spending and revenues back into line in 1993.
Instead, we think that they will focus on how “Obamacare” encouraged a wave of innovation that gradually tamed the spiraling costs of a dysfunctional system, even as millions of previously excluded Americans gained access to health insurance.
There is a chance that, following Bin Laden’s death, the Haqqani group could now be tamed and thus become willing to enter into negotiations with the Afghan government.
For the sake of regional and international security, this elephant must be tamed.
Surely the Pakistani public needs to be tamed by a strongman.
So far, these costs have been tamed by high domestic interest rates, keeping Central Europe's currencies strong.
The fatal human instincts of greed and hubris can be tamed only with some elementary ethical norms.
Unsurprisingly, financial markets do not want to be tamed.
Democracy, in turn, tamed capitalism further.
Obasanjo is also shaking up the oil industry in a double maneuver interpreted as a rap on the knuckles for his Western allies and a last ditch effort to secure a legacy as the one Nigerian leader who tamed corruption in that sector.
When media outlets aren’t owned – and tamed – by the authorities or people close to them, they still face censorship, intimidation, tax audits, and occasionally assassination of their journalists and editors.
In sum, while there is evidence to suggest that the macroeconomic management of capital inflow surges has been improving over time in emerging markets as a whole, one has to recall that prior to the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, a widely accepted view was that the advanced economies had tamed the business cycle.
Moreover, at a time where pervasive government must be tamed, fiscal expansion is a bad idea in any way other than tax cuts.
In many parts of the world, cholera has in fact been tamed.
Through the coordinated efforts of doctors, volunteers, global institutions, local governments, and civil society, these diseases were tamed.