The market's drop was tempered by better profits at Verizon, Pepsi and Union Pacific.
Incredibly, the Western reaction to this brutal turn of events has been exceedingly tempered.
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But his intense ambition was tempered with values that made him a stronger, deeper person.
"President Chen can't keep the image of being ill-tempered or blaming other officials, " Lu said.
His inner security was tempered by the humility that comes from being awed by nature.
His expectations may have been tempered by the frenzied competition in the tablet space.
But the celebration was tempered by a prosecutor's answer when asked who killed the victim.
In this industry, communications can be tricky and the impetus toward full disclosure must be tempered.
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Levine could have made the comedy darker and crazier, but the even-tempered, modulated style works well.
His feedback and communication is direct, but sometimes tempered in email with a smiley face.
But when one of those peers is promoted, these behaviors need to be tempered.
His portrait of Sir Alex is not especially flattering: he comes over as an evil-tempered bully.
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Seemingly every shred of good news Ford had to offer during the call was quickly tempered.
He later tempered his enthusiasm with tweets advising people to do their homework before investing.
At the same time, my enthusiasm has been tempered by the dubious state of publisher THQ.
To the bitter end, the bad-tempered Abuja summit was completely overshadowed by the Zimbabwe crisis.
His interventionist impulse, while tempered by an embrace of free-marketry in the early 1990s, lingers.
The project looks less like a marriage and more like a bad-tempered game of chess.
Sometimes their ambitions have been tempered by a corporate culture that stifles their success.
The general conclusion has confirmed that currency unions boost trade, but tempered the order of magnitude.
But the joy of coin collecting is always tempered by the fear of being robbed.
Although Nicolas Sarkozy was elected on a promise to shake things up, the recession has tempered his liberalising zeal.
Expect plenty of bad-tempered arguments over money and power with Germany, as ever, in the storm's eye.
So alongside the bad-tempered bargaining among politicians, there was an equally arduous negotiation with Greece's creditors.
So the budget negotiations could become very bad-tempered and there is no guarantee of success.
But even for someone like Mr Bush, idealism has to be tempered with realpolitik.
Whatever the reason, the take away is that, perhaps the overall outlook needs to be tempered somewhat.
Whatever optimism we have about the future ought to be tempered by realization of developing background problems.
His view of global companies which comes over in these books is of admiration tempered with caution.
Long before a date had been set, campaigning had started, with hot-tempered allegations of trickery flying freely.
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