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Temptation in sentence

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I did resist the temptation to skip to the back, where the shorter and more clearly mystical chapters are.
Scholars have long invoked this metaphor of two selves when it comes to questions of temptation.
Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
But resisting temptation is hard.
The other reason that it's difficult to resist temptation is because it's an unequal battle between the present self and the future self.
But will you be able to resist the temptation to track your fellow man?
Or will you be able to resist the temptation to turn on a GPS spoofer or a Wave Bubble to protect your own privacy?
But with that privilege comes a very sincere temptation to hold back who we are, and if we hold back who we are, we're less likely to be trusted.
It is a struggle within, a struggle against vice, sin, temptation, lust, greed.
In a state of anarchy, there's a constant temptation to invade your neighbors preemptively, before they invade you.
That would remove the temptation to invade preemptively, out of fear of them attacking you first.
Mills Storms Tema Harbour Over Anas Video] ["Late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills: Former president of Ghana"] John Evans Atta Mills: What Anas says is not something which is unknown to many of us, but please, those of you who are agents, and who are leading the customs officers into temptation, I'm telling you, Ghana is not going to say any good things to you about this.
Let's not succumb to the temptation to automate war.
I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it, and I do this precisely because of the temptation to throw up my hands in resignation and retreat into silence.
Because normal contracting for things, when you're spending government money, you're spending our money, tax money, and the people who are in charge of that are very aware of it so the temptation is to control exactly how you spend it.
And they are really complex and they can seem really far off, that the temptation may be to do this: bury our heads in the sand and not think about it.
We require warrants to be based on probable cause or some kind of individualized suspicion because we recognize that trusting anybody, any government authority, with the entirety of human communications in secret and without oversight is simply too great a temptation to be ignored.
Have you ever been tempted to, and then gave in to the temptation, of looking through someone else's phone?
Sometimes, in my project, I would take the painting and give it new meaning and new temptation about it.
The situation for the asylum seekers is made worse by contradictory policies and the temptation of militarized responses.
I had prayed their prayers, I had yielded not to temptation as best I could.
We have to resist the temptation to use fear for ratings.
DB: I mean, most American universities, especially elite universities, are overwhelmingly on the left, and there's just an ease of temptation to use your overwhelming cultural power to try to enforce some sort of thought that you think is right and correct thought.
And that we should resist the temptation to retreat into our silos.
We have a temptation to think about this as, oh, they're just using Snapchat the way we used to gossip on the telephone.
Because we're really bad at resisting temptation.
But when you have a stopping cue that, every time dinner begins, my phone goes far away, you avoid temptation all together.
You're willing to pay a price to withstand the temptation to give in.
So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful.
You really want everybody else to sacrifice, but everybody has a temptation to free ride.
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