Exempel på temptation

• I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.

• I finally surrendered to temptation, and ate the last remaining chocolate.

• It's very easy to yield to temptation and spend too much money.

• The temptation is to take more food than you need.

• Thus, vicarious reward creates an incentive to help the people whose experiences you choose as occasions for emotion, and to resist temptations to exploit them.

• Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be, you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour.

• Because the temptations and dangers would be minor, the process of soul-making would be gentler and slower.

• Without the protection offered by college walls and communal discipline, how would scholars withstand temptations and distractions and devote themselves to higher things?

• However, the twin temptations to determinism - architecture solely grounded on ecology or architecture solely grounded on technical production - have been identified and, we hope, avoided.

• The deconstructed heart is ever restless, yet the theological virtues stand only as perpetual temptations to rest in inauthenticity.

• One of the temptations of ab-initio programs is that they require much less information and are easier to run.

• I argue that democratic institutions promote developmental governance by countering temptations for politically opportunistic behaviour that is economically damaging.

• The bourgeois no longer lived either in a family economy of scarcity or in a rank of society remote from the temptations of high society.

• According to standard economic theory, the willingness to comply or pay more taxes is weak unless self-motivation or social solidarity overrides free-ride temptations.

• The moral decision still rested with each individual who either resisted or yielded to the temptations of his plight.

• The commitment of keeping the exchange rate fixed could prevent government temptations to follow excessively expansionary macroeconomic policies.

• In that case, they survive not merely as fragments of a negative identity, but also as temptations, possibilities, and rejected selves.

• They know the difficulties, the frustrations, and the temptations of the work.

• When it comes to the crunch, a general sense of prevailing ignorance might not sustain us against other temptations.