tamer

Examples of taming

taming

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Such successful 'taming ' of contentious movements without surrendering to their claims is certainly not a new phenomenon.
Taming the sovereigns: institutional change in international politics.
But the stories ultimately reassure the reader, by simultaneously taming the mummies and emphasizing the phantasmatic nature of their threat.
Quite badly, with the exception of some partial, and at times temporary, successes in taming inflation and achieving spurts of economic growth.
Taming the vernacular: from dialect to written standard language.
Taming the vernacular : from dialect to written standard language.
Recent developments point to an intrinsic weakness of both indigenous and unemployed movements, in that democratic regimes have proved highly successful at ' taming ' them.
He describes work on the experimentally controlled taming of a wild animal as an exercise in bond formation.
In the former colonies, the pioneering spirit of earlier agriculturalists taming the frontiers is an important part of national folklore.
Taming the inflammatory response that precedes and/or accompanies cancer progression is also an attractive therapeutic approach for treating cancer patients.
Those outward things which ye wonder at, pertain to myself only, unto the taming of my body.
Another public spectacle, the taming of animals, provided a colorful picture of inhibitory control.
Human beings are animals and animals could be dangerous creatures that required taming.
In particular, there are many tools for taming search in real-world situations.
This casual and playful handling of mimesis in the taming action is the key element which keeps the presentational in the foreground of the performance as a whole.
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