However, legitimate concern about improvement must be tempered by the countless instances when communication certainly is effective.
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However, the possibility of shared method effects is tempered by the longitudinal design and by the use of multiple informants and measures.
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My reservations of multi-author books on a single plant are tempered by the wealth of information, without overlap, from the contributors.
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The sixteenth-century household reveals the workings of gender subordination and the ravages of high mortality tempered by the flexibility of culture.
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Obviously this contained its own contradictions; the patriotism of the football hooligan had to be tempered by the authority of the law.
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Rapid advances in the field, however, have tempered the original judgement.
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A hierarchical interpretation of state intervention is tempered, however, by stressing the significance of unintended consequences attending central government's successive interventions in housing provision.
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Emulation of foreign models was always tempered by patriotic priorities and the dictates of local circumstances, necessarily resulting in intellectual hybridity.
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Their interest in political reform was tempered always by a concern to maintain the social status quo.
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He reflects in this book, however, on the notion that radial libertarianism should be tempered.
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Thus, my initial enthusiasm was tempered a little by the end of the book.
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Such a conclusion must be tempered by evidence suggesting that seed predator behaviour can change over time.
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Instead, successive governments have tried to cool down tempers and resolve the issues at stake at the local level.
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According to this view, these cases were dropped when tempers died down.
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The misogyny of the work is tempered by the mien of the suitor: eyes bulging, he, too, shows his teeth in an unflattering, goofy grimace.
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Collocationswithtemper
temper
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bad temper
But she has abadtemper, and she has just let fly at him.
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even temper
Can we proceed with the debate in an even temper?
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fiery temper
He was a man of enormous physical strength, with a fiery temper and a rather childish mind—a difficult combination.
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