1.   Although no one knows the Asia impact, expectations are clearly tempered.

2.   Even as he confirmed the negotiations, Sir Donald felt obliged to temper public expectations.

3.   Harry has learned to temper his expectations.

4.   Senior Clinton administration officials tried to temper expectations.

5.   Stocks also plunged as rising wages tempered expectations of a sixth cut in official interest rates.

6.   The managers cautioned investors to temper their expectations.

7.   The sustained economic boom has probably tempered expectations of the second Advent, he said, but they were still heightened, according to the poll.

8.   Those expectations should be tempered just a bit, because until they shore up a porous, peanut brittle defense, they are nowhere near contention.

9.   Three days of practice rounds have taught Goydos to temper his expectations in his first trip to Augusta.

10.   When Schiano took the job last December, he was cautiously optimistic while tempering expectations.