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In any case, none of these developments seems imminent, so the 31-year-old crown prince will have to learn to temper his impetuosity.
The Mecca agreement that brought forth the unity government in Palestine will inevitably temper Hamas’ radicalism, just as the regime’s avoidance in Jordan of an “Egyptian solution” to the Islamist challenge allowed the Islamic Action Front to contain within the movement many who would have been otherwise drawn into the jihadist orbit.
As China changes its economic model, it will shift from surplus saving to saving absorption – deploying its assets to fund a social safety net and thereby temper fear-driven precautionary household saving.
Those who assert that China is on the wrong side of history in its communication policies--and that the Internet means eventual democratization--ought to temper their optimism.
By introducing a so-called “countercyclical factor” to the rate-setting equation, the PBOC attempted to temper the disproportionate impact of depreciation expectations, relative to improvements in the Chinese economy’s fundamentals, on the exchange rate.
This does not mean that it should temper its secularism, much less its liberal values.
Channeling that influence through a newly created international organization, they argue, is more likely to temper raw power grabs.
To the huge power of the Russian presidency Putin adds his own aloof temper and a familiarity, from his KGB years, with the subtle levers of Russia's bureaucracy.
Trump’s behavior could be dismissed as a temper tantrum, and that of Republican leaders as a cynical exercise in humoring a narcissist adored by their party’s voters.
Trump did not temper himself once in office.
If Germany wants to keep energy prices constant, it must temper its green ambitions.
Monetary and fiscal policies can temper short-term distress in financial markets and hard-hit businesses and communities.
By the same token, the US may see fit to introduce land-based intermediate-range nuclear weapons in East Asia to temper China’s nuclear expansion.
By removing any incentive for diplomats to temper their approach and offering a convenient excuse for setbacks, this logic entrenches bad policy.
The erratic Flynn, a registered Democrat (Trump’s “lock her up” campaign slogan against Clinton notwithstanding), had been an admired intelligence officer in Afghanistan, but he needed level-headed supervision to temper his wilder conclusions.
Inflaming Chinese national sentiment is the worst possible way to temper the behavior of China’s leaders.
While that could temper near-term prospects, it is hard to pin the slowdown of the past few months on exports.
Half an hour later the Slav tutor found his pupil on the stairs, and for a long while could not make out whether he was in a temper or was simply crying.
'It seems he has won from Pevtsov all and even more than Pevtsov can pay – about sixty thousand roubles.''But why do you imagine,' said she, irritated at his intimating to her so obviously, by this change of subject, that he saw she was losing her temper, 'that this news interests me so much that it is necessary to conceal it?
Only one thing put him out of temper: two lovers had acquired the bad habit of embracing outside his wall.
The obstinate Canadian refused, and I could clearly see that his tight-lipped mood and his bad temper were growing by the day.
Madame lost her temper.
What was the meaning of all these fits of temper?
I save nothing out of my stipend, gentlemen, and that may be why I am less alarmed when people speak of taking it from me.'M. de Renal lived on excellent terms with his wife; but not knowing what answer to make to the question, which she timidly repeated: 'What harm can this gentleman from Paris do to the prisoners?' he was just about to lose his temper altogether when she uttered a cry.
'Monsieur Julien, kindly control yourself, remember that we are all of us liable to moments of ill temper,' Madame Derville said hastily.
'Only a fool,' he told himself, 'loses his temper with other people: a stone falls because it is heavy.
Being in an extremely bad temper and deeply humiliated, Julien could not sleep.
'Those gentlemen,' said a banker's wife, 'ought really to offer an affront to the little upstart, born in the gutter.''He has a wicked temper and he is wearing a sabre,' replied her companion; 'he would be quite treacherous enough to slash them across the face.'
You would show temper and make him cross with me; you know how touchy the little gentleman is.''That young man has no tact,' went on Madame de Renal; 'he may be learned, you know about that, but at bottom he is nothing but a peasant.
'One word more; it is my misfortune to have a hasty temper; it is possible that you and I may cease to speak to one another.
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