How to Use "temperance" with Example Sentences

1. America also has a long tradition of temperance .

2. During prohibition teetotaling temperance activists asserted this belief citing it among the dangers of drink .

3. In the 1924 ontario prohibition plebiscite ontarians voted narrowly , by a margin of 51.5 % to 48.5 % , to retain the ontario temperance act .

4. Temperance eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation .

5. Mr norquist is the pugnacious founder of americans for tax reform ( atr ) , a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements .