31.   She encouraged his literary interests while trying to temper his enthusiasm for works of a more radical nature.

32.   So Levy was tempering the enthusiasm.

33.   Still, Ms. Cornwell allows her enthusiasms to be tempered by her financial overseers.

34.   Technology shares also retreated, after a record-setting streak, when a SoundView Financial Group Inc. analyst suggested investors should temper their enthusiasm for the stocks.

35.   Still, concern that bond yields are headed higher tempers his enthusiasm.

36.   Technology shares retreated after a SoundView Financial Group Inc. analyst, Rick Whittington, urged investors to temper their enthusiasm for the stocks.

37.   That enthusiasm was tempered on Capitol Hill, however.

38.   The dirty tricks people keep playing on Sampras on European soil should temper the enthusiasm of numerous critics who wish to salute him as the greatest of all time.

39.   The dispute has tempered enthusiasm for the local law even among advocates of private property there, including Del and some of his private farmer neighbors.

40.   The enthusiasm has been tempered, too, by the lukewarm response from several local institutions.