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"temperance" Definitions
  1. (old-fashioned) the practice of not drinking alcohol because of your moral or religious beliefs
  2. (formal) the practice of controlling your behaviour, the amount you eat, etc., so that it is always reasonable synonym moderation

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It was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, not the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
The excursions to temperance meetings expanded to other nearby temperance societies and Sunday schools.
From 180 to 21940, the temperance movement gained momentum as more and more Americans were taking voluntary "temperance pledges " and giving up spirits and cider.
"Devoted to antislavery, temperance and general literature" was the slogan.
The same temperance is evident also in Uruguay's relationship with religion.
An 22004 photograph of the New Hampshire Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Many Populist women were also stalwarts of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Yesilay (Green Crescent), a temperance movement founded in 1920, cheers him on.
And that became the stance of the temperance movement up until Prohibition.
The homily that Father LaCuesta delivered at the church in Temperance, Mich.
Who's going to provide the temperance that's needed in that White House?
In fact, he tsk-tsked with the urgency of a temperance activist.
We just have to choose together, to embrace temperance and paternalism both.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union quickly became the nation's largest women's organization.
Temperance had a broader reach than Prohibition, and many advocates of temperance opposed Prohibition, viewing alcohol consumption not as an individual failure of will or of morality but as a symptom of inequality and of social and political corruption.
My personal favorites are the confidants relating to the Star and Temperance arcanas.
Allegorical images — Temperance, Justice, Charity — on urban facades promoted civic pride and obedience.
And indeed, European temperance movements did tend to regard beer as relatively harmless.
In many ways, yes: Susan B. Anthony herself began as a temperance organizer.
Thus, the temperance movement began, restricting or banning alcohol in regions throughout the country.
Set in Temperance, Wyoming, something unnatural is killing wolves, leaving only their skins behind.
Still, its reappearance represented the end of Mr. Duterte's brief venture into linguistic temperance.
Prudence is the intellectual virtue of the moral virtues—courage, temperance, justice, and prudence.
What could be more absurd than two artists fighting over the personification of temperance?
The temperance movement gave rise to temperance halls (booze-free taverns meant to replace bars), but they were tethered to the zealotry of the movement and tended to fail, Sismondo explained, never managing to rake in the patronage of a traditional tavern.
That said, today's Westminster looks like a temperance meeting compared with the Westminster of old.
After spending 15 years as a teacher, she joined the abolishment movement and temperance rallies.
He was a part of the temperance movement and organized anti-liquor meetings in 1841.
The basin on which she stands shelters four cherubs representing health, purity, temperance and peace.
In reality, the temperance movement was anything but pinky-raising Victorians forbidding society to drink.
This is part of an annual seltzer-soaked exercise in temperance that he calls Drynuary.
By the late 235th and early 21970th century, the temperance movement had returned in force.
Temperance, on the other hand, was portrayed as the province of small-town, native-born Americans.
In the 1820s and 1830s, they congregated to discuss issues such as abolition, temperance, and religion.
Her temperance arguments featured stories of drunken male brutality, as befitted a member of the WCTU.
During Hullibarger's funeral at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Temperance, Michigan, on Dec.
There are versions that talk about temperance, about women's suffrage, about presidential campaigns, including Abraham Lincoln's.
Centaurs (which you are) are not famous for temperance— or for knowing when to stop talking.
A sigh. Abigail. Norma. Laquisha. Molly. Sylvia. Roxanne. Temperance. Emma. Delilah. Daphne. Wilhelmina. Georgette. Landfall. Rubble.
Temperance was the longest-running, most widely supported social movement in both American and global history.
We are not born with it, just as we are not born with courage or temperance.
Many Socialists and trade unionists advocated temperance because alcoholism interfered with workers' efforts at social change.
German brewers always maintained that beer was a "temperance beverage," unlike ardent spirits such as whiskey.
The event has not historically been associated with temperance, but that year, the festivities broke up early.
Why would any Republican expect their base to suddenly develop nuance and temperance when discussing the topic?
However, there is an important distinction between the temperance movement and the efforts to secure legal Prohibition.
It is associated with concepts such as common sense, temperance, responsibility, tolerance, thoughtfulness, prudence, civilised behaviour, and realism.
The early 19th century produced many varieties of collective action, from abolition to temperance to anti-Catholic crusades.
Critic score: 90%Based on Kathy Reichs' "Temperance Brennan" series, "Bones" ran for 12 successful seasons on Fox.
Many Americans resented the temperance movement and didn't believe that Prohibition would ever actually happen or be enforced.
His list of 13: Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity and Humility.
This new book focuses on mercenary Jayne Cobb, who responds to a distress call from an old flame, Temperance.
White's writings and speeches focused on four pillars of Klan ideology: white supremacy, anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, and temperance.
Their mother was dead and their father was in a temperance house in Albany run by Edward C. Delavan.
He was a temperance lecturer, a reformer, a four-term Connecticut state legislator, and the mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Correction (December 20th): A previous version of this article described the Institute of Alcohol Studies as a temperance charity.
Another reason for the temperance in Treasury yields was the commencement of QE programs from those very same countries.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Wilson's upbringing as a minister's son played into his support for temperance.
Members joined for status and to become better connected, and the Klan advocated temperance and sponsored family-friendly events.
The first Thomas Cook holiday was a 15-mile railway ride for temperance movement supporters from Leicester to Loughborough.
It was steeped, like the female-dominant temperance movement, in a conviction of the inherent moral virtue of women.
Before she was an organizer for woman suffrage, Susan B. Anthony was an organizer for the Daughters of Temperance.
Social movements like temperance and women's suffrage in the 19th and 20th centuries utilized maps to compel the public.
As Prohibition and temperance reform swept the United States in the 1920s, high heels became a topic of legislation.
One of the most influential groups was the Women's Christian Temperance Union, for example, which was founded in 1873.
They could be based on traditional morality like rights, utility, or virtue ethics — balancing courage, justice, prudence, and temperance.
"Temperance?" you might object, with one eye on the latest outrage shared by your co-partisans on social media.
"I have a healthy level of temperance and, honestly, just work ethic," she was not afraid to admit to me.
By arranging free or discounted train trips, he could ferry large cohorts of temperance supporters to rallies across the country.
Here is where I understand everything that Dante previously told me: to grill takes temperance, energy, skills and some tricks.
So the early temperance groups advocating abstaining from distilled spirits but believed it was OK to drink beer and wine.
Many dry states and temperance advocates were frustrated, however, because the Supreme Court had ruled in 1898, in Vance v.
Which is why we need a social and political movement — digital temperance, if you will — to take back some control.
"If we expect other countries around the world to listen to us, we cannot preach temperance from a barstool," Markey said.
Romans 13:1 had been quoted on a variety of topics—including capital punishment and temperance—prior to the Civil War.
As the temperance movement grew, people started to say—sensibly—it's not really whiskey that's the problem, alcohol is the problem.
" The Ebenezer Temperance Society seeks a donation, and Dickens exclaims, "I'd like to screw and bruise them, scrouge and scruze them!
Besides being a suffragist and a fighter for temperance, she had worked tirelessly on the campaigns of her husband, a congressman.
School's back in session at Bedford Junior High School in Temperance, Michigan; and there was a surprising new student this year.
It is like having your chastity praised by a brothel keeper, or your temperance and thrift eulogized by a drunken sailor.
"If the card that comes up is the Temperance card, maybe you'll want to focus on balance throughout your day," Main says.
But even though Trump is a teetotaler, he does not engage in public anti-alcohol messaging or campaign as a temperance advocate.
Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are also beholden to another enemy of fiscal temperance: donors that demand tax cuts in any circumstance.
The Anti-Saloon League and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union forged two of its phalanxes, adopting an increasingly shrill tone toward immigrants.
In one room, a relentless Christian temperance crusader described how she brought down a Prohibition-era den of iniquity on the corner.
"I don't think any city has come up with a solution to gentrification," said June Raven Romero, who plays the temperance crusader.
Over the course of her life, she participated in many of the reform movements of the day including abolition, temperance and pacifism.
Don LaCuesta to discuss what they wanted in the homily, to be delivered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Temperance.
Some of the older temperance supporters were ministers and men of wealth who really wanted to be able to continue to drink wine.
And, given that dry states were also prohibited from entirely stopping the importation of alcohol, temperance advocates found themselves in a constitutional bind.
There is nothing stopping us from over-indulgence, so remember to practice a little temperance and moderation if you need to be responsible.
And it is expressly designed to build moral character by cultivating the six cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, justice, humanity, temperance, and transcendence.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt emphasize in their brilliant book "How Democracies Die" the importance of norms and temperance as key for democratic resiliency.
Trump has abandoned the Judeo-Christian aspirations that have always represented America's highest moral ideals: toward love, charity, humility, goodness, faith, temperance and gentleness.
By 1910, when the leafy temperance town of Hollywood merged with its big sister to the east, the enlarged city's population was over 300,000.
But activists in the American temperance movement – which by then had become more about abstinence and intertwined with evangelical Protestantism – didn't buy the argument.
Temperance doesn't have to mean teetotaling; it can simply mean a culture of restraint that tries to keep a specific product in its place.
For almost three-quarters of a century she delivered lectures from the East to the West upon temperance, politics, and the woman's rights question.
The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism.
Along with the portrait of Private Walker, pictures of soldier-quiltmakers were disseminated by temperance periodicals around the United Kingdom during the Crimean War.
The main reason for the repeal of Prohibition was that the temperance movement never managed to persuade most Americans that drinking alcohol was truly wicked.
"I made the greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking," Franklin wrote. 5.
It happened with the "Free Silvers" the "Golds" the 20th Century progressives, the Temperance movement, as well as modern day Occupy and Tea Party movements.
The country was three years into the nationwide prohibition of alcohol which had been forced through by the po-faced campaigners of the temperance movement.
In the United States, a wide range of groups, from Whig Party offshoots to late-19th-century temperance leagues, claimed the slogan to various ends.
Thursday night marked the beginning of what people around college football are calling, with the sport's characteristic humility and temperance, the greatest opening weekend ever.
The thought arose in my mind: Peddling a mindfulness app via digital advertising is like depositing a temperance pamphlet at the bottom of a booze bottle.
As a reformer for public health, she was a leader in the temperance movement and fought tuberculosis on the reservation where she worked as a physician.
If you, for some reason, supported reviving alcohol prohibition in America, there's basically no way a temperance movement is going to succeed in the 21st century.
Temperance Brennan once said on FOX's Bones that she could commit the perfect murder by destroying the body — without it, there could be no murder case.
At the time, a growing women's network, developed through campaigns for the abolition of slavery, temperance and women's suffrage, was primed to help a female professional.
This is according to a new generation of kinda-sorta temporary temperance crusaders, whose attitudes toward the hooch is somewhere between Carrie Nation's and Carrie Bradshaw's.
The basic pattern of life was an underlying condition of peril, warded off by an ethos of self-restraint, temperance, self-control and strictness of conscience.
How could organizations like the Woman's Christian Temperance Union champion progressive issues like the expansion of suffrage and civil and labor rights alongside supposedly reactionary prohibition?
The bar becomes an altar on Sundays, but there's no preacher, so the schoolmarm provides temperance lectures from it, which the men are obliged to attend.
Last week, 13-year-old Hunter Gandee and his brother, Braden, walked 111 miles — from his hometown of Temperance, Michigan, to the steps of the state capitol.
In his autobiography, he writes about his "Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection," which involved tracking the days he committed faults against virtues like temperance, frugality, and chastity.
Still, Jones highlights their importance, not just in their own right — from the history of abolition to the temperance movement — but as a perpetual foil to evangelicals.
The temperance movement in the 1920s and 1930s, which brought about Prohibition, was led by women and Christians concerned alcohol was affecting citizens' physical and mental health.
Millions of us find in her a model of thoughtfulness, of temperance, of discretion, of intelligence, of diligence and resilience, those most undersung of her sturdy values.
Cook hired a train from the Midland Railway Company to transport temperance movement supporters in Leicester to an anti-liquor meeting in Loughborough in July of 1841.
An 11th-grader from Stuyvesant High School paced the halls, rehearsing her lines as Frances Willard, the 19th century co-founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Bookshelf In 1846, Frederick Douglass most likely provoked some temperance leaders at a rally in London by declaring that slavery was an even greater evil than alcoholism.
The movement gained traction around the turn of the century, in large part thanks to women's groups who saw temperance as a way to combat domestic violence.
Thus, it's likely that familiar tensions, actions and reactions will continue to plague the region, though the recent U.S. and Iranian temperance has created some breathing space.
It was started in 1869 by Thomas Bramwell Welch, a Wesleyan Methodist who advocated temperance and urged grape juice as a substitute for wine in the Eucharist.
Temperance societies filled Cellardyke with abstinence literature for years, and the writers of the East of Fife Record obviously did their best to bring iniquities to light.
The three of them sound like the well-bred daughters of a nineteenth-century temperance clan, yet their job is to pour forth an intoxicating stream. Bliss.
His anger prompted him to stage a deeply bizarre and unpresidential spectacle in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, demanding testimony from aides on his own temperance.
The New York Times' Opinion columnist Ross Douthat recently called for "digital temperance," an apt phrase that speaks to the binging and compulsive nature of our screen use.
So a digital temperance movement would start by resisting the wiring of everything, and seek to create more spaces in which internet use is illegal, discouraged or taboo.
He became known across the country as the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition," and within four years 12 other states had joined Maine in total prohibition.
He found a largely ignored, 1923 law on the books, a measure that established Temperance and Good Citizenship Day, to be observed by all public schools annually on Jan.
Folayan and Davis, however, hold no brief for even-handedness, and, for those who dominate the screen, any sign of temperance, even in a President, is treated with contempt.
American moralists at the height of the temperance movement pushed for laws that gave the police broad authority to break into homes and arrest drinkers, adulterers and gay men.
This is the story of George Cassiday, the Man in the Green Hat, who kept Congress drinking through Prohibition — and helped speed the end of a decadelong experiment in temperance.
Women who advocated for temperance in the 19th century did so, in part, because they'd had enough of seeing men come home from saloons and take fists to their wives.
Temperance was a "woman's issue" in the 19333th and early 20th centuries, as women and children suffered physical and emotional abuse from inebriated men, often their own husbands and fathers.
Temperance and Prohibition had been popular causes throughout the 1003th century, but supporters didn't reach a critical mass until the era of mass immigration at the turn of the century.
Newspaper ads of the day reveal a motley tenant roster that included the Sons of Temperance and an auction house selling odds and ends like seashells, opera glasses and pistols.
It seems too perfect that this quarrelsome pair would turn to violence after an argument about temperance, which, as you probably know, is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint.
With the development of telegram wires, 2,000 miles of which were laid in Britain by the early 1850s, he was soon even able to direct his temperance tourists' itineraries from afar.
He was noted for his comedy recordings with the likes of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Beyond the Fringe and got his first Number 1 with The Temperance Seven in 1961.
"Demon rum" had at long last been outlawed, and Prohibition's supporters, spearheaded by the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union, celebrated their victory, not with champagne, of course.
Moving into a White House made dry by her predecessors, Lucretia Garfield ignored pressure from the temperance movement and reversed the policy not to serve alcohol, according to the History Channel. 
And so for the next four decades, New Yorkers continued to drink putrid water, often mixing it with liquor to make it palatable, a practice that contributed to the temperance movement.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the powerful grass-roots female reform organization at the core of the anti-liquor crusade, raised an American flag at its campaign headquarters in Evanston, Ill.
As an economic historian, I've extensively researched the political economy of alcohol prohibition, and the unique history of the U.S. temperance movement might bear some responsibility for country's exceptionally bland beer.
But the "lager bier craze" dovetailed with another big trend: the temperance movement, which at various times sought to reduce problem drinking, reduce drinking more generally and eradicate alcohol consumption completely.
Efficient organizing campaigns by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League led to a new wave of state and local prohibitions and, finally, a push for national prohibition.
There is of course the perennial question of whether cowed Republicans on Capitol Hill will be moved to even discuss the crisis of competence and temperance raging in the White House.
The temperance movement's vision of a dry nation continues to steadily erode, and the alcohol controls that do exist, like the 21 year drinking age, are most effective because they're universal.
Maybe, after a day of self-care and R&R, you draw the temperance card, which is often associated with moving through life methodically, gracefully, and with great attention to one's wellbeing.
In Britain at least, quilting was encouraged by the military and temperance organizations alike; they gave idle hands something to do between military engagements, staving off the temptations of drink and gambling.
The explosive Chicago microbrew scene is largely neighborhood-based, from Argus Brewery in the South Side Pullman district and Moody Tongue Brewery in Pilsen to Temperance Beer Company in north suburban Evanston.
In 21992, a proponent of women's suffrage argued in The New York Times that women "display more of the virtues of good citizens, forethought, temperance, industry, and self-restraint" than men do.
Emma Molloy, a renowned temperance revivalist, owned a farm near Springfield, Mo. Her foster daughter, Cora Lee, also lived on the farm, where she obviously wasn't given enough work to keep her occupied.
By July Dow, a founding member of the Maine Temperance Society, had almost single-handedly arranged for the passage of a law banning the manufacturing, sale, and consumption of alcohol in the state.
During the temperance movement that began in the 1800s, many women pushed for bans on alcohol as a response to husbands who spent too much money on liquor and were violent while drunk.
As Rummy's domineering wife is dragging him to a temperance meeting—where he'll serve as " the horrible example" 26 —he sneaks off to Harry's soda fountain, which is a front for a speakeasy.

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