1.   Cross-cutting membership of groups means that demands are tempered because people have different interests that are articulated through multiple associations.

2.   Americans leaders, however, can also temper the demands and keep the expectations of the nationalists and their vocal supporters in the US within realistic bounds.

3.   Accelerating inflation could prompt the central bank to boost interest rates to combat rising prices by tempering demand for goods.

4.   Accelerating inflation may push the central bank to boost interest rates to slow the economy and temper demand for goods and services.

5.   Hancock contends that a rate increase is not likely to temper the demand for the service.

6.   Guinigundo hinted though that the central bank wants interest rates nudged up to temper the demand for goods.

7.   If, for example, Greenspan warns that he will not tolerate higher prices, unions temper wage demands even before the Fed raises interest rates.

8.   Municipal bonds were little changed Monday as investors searched for higher income bonds, but the run-up in bonds to higher prices has tempered demand somewhat, traders said.

9.   Or an agent might be a politician in a constitutional government whose demands are tempered by the social contract.

10.   That tempered demand from international institutions, fund managers said.