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He had also been in a program to control his temper.

People say he has a temper, but you know what?

At the age of 3 he began to show a temper.

Bad temper might result from being in such a home.

How much of a temper did the old man have?

She should never have lost her temper and said such things to him.

Have you got over your little bit of bad temper?

The high color of his face was not all temper.

The first time, in fact, he had ever lost his temper with her.

One person a year is not exactly a bad temper.

I was all ready to deal with such a show of temper.

Each of them in turn lost his or her temper.

He was also known for having something of a temper.

In another state of his temper, he might leave her behind him.

I think you had better learn to control your temper.

My friend here just lost his temper for a moment.

I can take out my temper on you because I'm important.

She has a very short temper and lives with her parents.

They said they'd never seen him in such a temper.

The old shows of temper were not to be seen again.

How could one be in a bad temper on such a day!

All of them seemed to be in a bad temper.

She held on to her temper every bit as hard.

A man should always know when to control his temper.

He'd had a long day and he lost his temper.

But so was her mother, which might temper things a bit.

Some hard truth with which I could temper the good times?

That should be enough time to temper what is between you.

And the last seems to have at least been tempered in recent times.

They do nothing to temper the line taken by the text as a whole.

This did not temper the child's desire to have one.

With another national election expected, the party is working to temper its image.

Part of the designer's job is to temper these two things, and then to give form to the idea.

He has made no attempt to temper his strong views.

Party officials have tried to temper the tone of this campaign.

But those same characteristics need to be tempered on the home front.

The president is meant to temper the other branches as well.

He was a man built for action, and tempered to violence.

She kept her voice light in an effort to temper the magnitude of the situation.

Through us, if we do our job properly, the black and white of war is tempered.

Any excitement was soon tempered as more results came in.

"You look of a size to temper him down some.

But for many, those rituals were tempered by the times.

At this point in the process the metal is tempered.

They are short tempered, and refuse to answer his questions.

Yet it was tempered by the dark future that lay ahead.

But hope is tempered here with a strong dose of common sense.

Nevertheless, something must be done to temper the effect of such movies on society.

He needed to cool down; to temper his own reaction with reason.

I do not want to take away hope, from my patients or myself, only temper it with realism.