be temperate

Example Sentences

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May all of your homes be temperate, and your roommates mindful of the utility bill.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2017

“When you and your advisers are out to destroy the livelihood, welfare and families of the people that it’s my job to represent and protect, there’s little for me to be temperate about,” he wrote.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2016

To the New York Times, striving to be temperate, the President's proposed economies were "wholly unimpressive."

From Time Magazine Archive

I urge industry in its own interest to be temperate in its demands and I invite its fullest cooperation.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would try to be temperate, so as to keep the inner eye unclouded; and he would try to be perfectly simple and sincere, deciding questions on their own merits, and with no conventional judgment.

From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher