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Tempt in sentence

66 examples of Tempt in a sentence

Don't tempt me, because I will do it.
It may tempt people to continue to burn fossil fuels 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
To tempt us to act differently with delightful creative scraps.
Other people I would tempt to cheat.
There was so many skeptics, especially the press in London, that they started flying cheeseburgers on helicopters around my box to tempt me.
does not tempt us to say that there are no truths to be known about human nutrition.
The chipmunks were adorable, yet sometimes blatantly obvious at moving the plot of the story along, and therefore did not tempt me to stay in the theater for longer than half an hour into the film.
The Trabants, constantly breaking down, were still the main mode of private motorised transport, the shops still featured nothing much to tempt me, uniforms were still commonplace, but the people, the ordinary people were open and nice once you had gained their trust.
However, being an ugly git Joe can't tempt any young ladies to go out with him, or do anything else with him for that matter.
The Gretorexes (for so they are called) don't know where their next shilling is coming from but there are yachting parties and fancy-dress balls in posh pleasaunces aplenty to tempt her.
What in the world would tempt someone to think up a movie this stupid and bizarre?
But the stability of the EU is far from guaranteed, because a smooth and painless Brexit may tempt other member states to also quit the bloc.
The attempt to ensure that the losses are not recognized might tempt the Fed to rely excessively on untested, uncertain, and costly monetary-policy tools – like paying high interest rates on reserves to induce banks not to lend.
Nonetheless, to this day, German authorities ban the display of Nazi imagery, fearing that it might still tempt people to repeat the darkest episodes of their country’s history.
India has never seemed likely to succumb to a similar tendency, but the irresponsible custodians of Indian democracy should not tempt fate.
But that did not happen in Libya, and events will likely tempt future presidents to behave in the same way, despite the risks.
Unlike in the past, it stems neither from hegemonic ambitions nor from the sort of weakness that might tempt aggression.
Realpolitik and fear of another exodus of Cuban refugees across the Florida Straits may tempt the US to pursue a “Chinese” or “Vietnamese” solution to Cuba: normalizing diplomatic relations in exchange for economic reform, while leaving the question of internal political change until later.
At a time of substantial economic challenges – Italy’s output has been stagnant for a decade, and its public finances remain precarious – the populist Five Star Movement, which has pledged to hold a referendum on continued euro membership, may well tempt voters.
The Past in Egypt’s PresentLONDON – In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Czech novelist Milan Kundera wrote that, “The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.
Even China briefly allowed its currency to weaken against the dollar last year, and slowing output growth may tempt the government to let the renminbi weaken even more.
The most challenging task for governments is to boost the private sector’s effective risk-bearing capacity so that businesses have access to capital on terms that tempt them to expand.
Sooner or later France and other countries with political traditions different from Germany’s will break the diplomatic and economic promises they made to tempt Germany into EMU.
Indeed, relying on the capacity to attack the Chinese mainland to defend freedom of navigation and alliance commitments in East Asia could tempt China’s leaders to test America’s willingness to risk Los Angeles to defend the Senkaku Islands.
The consequences of rising income inequality can tempt policymakers down a dangerous path: the use of debt, sometimes combined with an asset bubble, to sustain consumption.
If the peace process does not exist, the resulting vacuum might tempt some in the Arab world to deal with the problem of rising economic expectations – and, alas, dashed political expectations – through old-fashioned anti-Israel demagoguery.
Neither country aims to restrain China in the way the “containment” strategy aimed at an aggressive Soviet Union during the Cold War, but both want to create an international structure that does not tempt China to throw its weight around.
Thus, Chavez is portrayed as a return to the Latin American populist heresy, a heresy that must be resisted because it affects not only the country with the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East, but also because it may tempt the rest of Latin America down that road.
But the long-term costs of remaining in a club dominated by inherently deflationary, German-dictated rules might tempt Italians to leave.
Yet governments must also avoid pumping up businesses with over-confidence, which could tempt them to raise mark-ups and hurt sales.
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