temperance in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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The bars quite often asked their patrons to sign a pledge of temperance, meaning that they would abstain from intoxicating liquors.
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He was raised in a family that valued hard work, plain dress, temperance and sympathy for the unfortunate and opposed slavery and social gilded livery.
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The hall hosted a variety of social functions, including theatrical and musical shows, sporting events, and temperance meetings.
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The book is full of jokes about drinking and pokes fun at temperance.
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This was deliberate, as the hotel's original owners were affiliated with the temperance movement.
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Local option regarding alcohol was first used in the temperance movement as a means to bring about prohibition gradually.
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He was an active advocate of the temperance cause.
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As temperance groups continued to promote prohibition, other groups opposed increased alcohol restrictions.
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Though both were personally indifferent to temperance, they felt the law must be upheld, no matter how hard it was to enforce.
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His views on the subject of temperance were equally radical.
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