0 the wish to do or have something that you know you should not do or have: --
1 the desire to have or do something, esp. something wrong, or something that causes this desire: --
When it comes to the crunch, a general sense of prevailing ignorance might not sustain us against other temptations.
They know the difficulties, the frustrations, and the temptations of the work.
In that case, they survive not merely as fragments of a negative identity, but also as temptations, possibilities, and rejected selves.
The commitment of keeping the exchange rate fixed could prevent government temptations to follow excessively expansionary macroeconomic policies.
The moral decision still rested with each individual who either resisted or yielded to the temptations of his plight.
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 bourgeois no longer lived either in a family economy of scarcity or in a rank of society remote from the temptations of high society.
I argue that democratic institutions promote developmental governance by countering temptations for politically opportunistic behaviour that is economically damaging.
