(1) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(2) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
(3) Fatal CHD, on the other hand, was strongly associated with registration for intemperance.
(4) Source: EUMETSAT The rain blame If the weather has turned intemperate, so has the argument about who is to blame.
(5) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
(6) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
(7) The consequences of alcoholic intemperance and economic problems on CHD mortality and morbidity were studied among the participants in a large primary preventive trial.
(8) His friend, Samuel Johnson, was a Tory and, according to Boswell, regularly "attacked the Americans with intemperate violence of abuse".
(9) But in Barton's case, one wonders how much his intemperateness has been detrimental to his football and to his progression in the game.
(10) The association of condoms with sexual intemperance, along with concerns about their efficacy, helped to support the idea that abstinence was the only acceptable prophylaxis for sexually transmitted disease.
(11) "He is an immensely personable, warm man, although his language at times, on issues such as gay marriage, can be intemperate," she said.
(12) At the extremes of this debate we have seen at times language or actions that are intemperate.
(13) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
(14) Subjects registered with the Board of Social Welfare were categorised with respect to increasing load of alcoholic intemperance.
(15) We've tried to conduct this debate in a sensible manner especially at a time when the economy's still pretty weak and for him to use such intemperate language really is unacceptable."
(16) When asked about the social media backlash from the public, Lee said: "I don't think you should judge the programme by the extreme reaction represented by a handful of very intemperate tweets."
(17) The quality of discourse will inevitably deteriorate and the intemperate trends we are already seeing in much of Europe will proliferate.
(18) A multivariate analysis was performed, controlling for smoking, systolic blood pressure and serum cholesterol, which showed that the association between intemperance and fatal CHD was independent of these factors.
(19) There has been intemperate and extreme comment from both sides on social media and in online commentary.
(20) One clue is in the stunning helicopter rescue performed by Simone Moro, Steck's climbing partner, whose intemperate language provoked the confrontation at Camp 2.
Modicum
Definition:
(n.) A little; a small quantity; a measured simply.
Example Sentences:
(1) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.
(2) But I also hope I do so with a modicum of self-knowledge.
(3) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
(4) The early suffrage movement wanted to protect women as well as give them a modicum of power.
(5) In reality, the only harm that could ever come the way of these pseudonymous CIA agents would be in the form of more lawsuits from victims, given that the Justice Department gave up trying to prosecute any of them, and the White House gave up on even a modicum of accountability a while ago.
(6) The findings do support other cross-cultural studies, which have found only a modicum of shared variance between test anxiety and grades.
(7) It was unclear whether government officials had changed their minds or whether the police moves were an attempt to show the government could exert a modicum of control over the capital after the chaos of recent days.
(8) Further, the data reveal that the training led to CPNs extending their role in a variety of other ways even though they received only a modicum of support from colleagues within their own health authorities.
(9) Does he get at least a modicum of enjoyment out of the show’s production troubles?
(10) The same species were detected from lungs and peribronchial lymph nodes of calves, together with A. laidlawii, A. modicum and M. bovirhinis species.
(11) Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.
(12) Just like Sphero, BB-8 charges via induction in a Star Wars-branded cradle, is controlled via Bluetooth from an iPhone or Android smartphone and has a modicum of intelligence to sense its environment through bump mapping, similar to robot vacuums from iRobot and others.
(13) However, primary care physicians can perform a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions with a minimum of technology and a modicum of patience and understanding.
(14) Had the film-makers possessed a modicum of wit, though, they'd have marshalled some adorable woodland creatures to help her scrub the plates with their fluffy bottoms.
(15) He tends to reserve the trademark sneer, loaded first question and presumption of guilt for members of parliament and ministers – even those who, truth be told, wield only the most modest modicum of influence.
(16) Total glycolipid fractions and the aqueous phenol fractions (lipopolysaccharides) from the membranes of Acholeplasma laidlawii, A. modicum, A. axanthum, and Mycoplasma neurolyticum exhibited significant antigenic activity.
(17) And he appeared to question the idea that there was more to the job, as long as you had completed a modicum of training, than just turning up and running.
(18) Furthermore, blebbed colonies plaquing with a new virus specific to A. modicum.
(19) Alvaro Negredo, a second-half substitute, rescued a modicum of pride with a classy left-foot strike after 80 minutes but the late flurry, after Jérôme Boateng had been sent off for bringing down Yaya Touré, was a deception.
(20) But in his confessional mode, Hawthorne needed a modicum of disguise.