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Examples
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If Christians were really willing to live a life of love and temperence, we might appear more attractive to the world around us.
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Our correct calls for accountability have to be balanced and measured with temperence and I fully expect to be leapt on for saying this…..
Is fairness enough? Alix Mortimer 2008
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I am far too desperate to want to believe that the pendulum has finally climaxed and is about to swing back in the other direction … toward temperence.
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He changed much of the way public utilities wereand are managed, changed the gas industry, put forward revolutionary ideas about property- and was a major player in temperence movement.
Livesey Museum closure M 2008
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Our classification route took us to the base of Whiskey Peak (so named because of the nearby illegal destruction of a convoy of whiskey wagons by the army and some temperence women back in the late 1800s).
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001
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[Illustration: A Scene in the Devils Temperance College The fight between the temperence factions was greatly enjoyed by the saloon - keepers, brewers, and whisky politicians.]
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory
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A _life of virtue and temperence_ will secure to you money and time; will give you health, and prosperity, peace, character, respect, and usefulness.
The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People
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The Anti Alcohol temperence groups will use this stats as excuse to raise price more.
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*shudders* I'll avoid the smiting, because violence only begets violence...we need temperence and education to show the country these types of things.
Tag for Your Life Anne Johnson 2008
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But, those were such fun times for the press, when they all got to pretend like they were happenin'--- talkin' 'bout the nasty 'n shit, all the while cluck clucking like a bunch of women's temperence workers over the horrors of sexual incontinence.
Hullabaloo 2004
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