Sentence examples for a powerful temptation from inspiring English sources

Drug dealing remains a powerful temptation.

Professor Wermers acknowledged that the prospect of beating the market remains a powerful temptation for many people.

In court, the N.C.A.A. and sports leagues have argued that wider sports betting would compromise their image and offer a powerful temptation for their athletes to fix games.

Right or wrong — and, to be clear, I am not a Gnostic — Gnosticism still represents, in my view, a powerful temptation that needs to be understood before being criticized.

After taking in $100 million in donations, Mr. Obama is the one setting fund-raising records, presenting a powerful temptation to find a way out of his own proposal so that he might outspend his Republican opponent.

Indeed, there exists an entire lore of high jinks on the subway, which to teenagers growing up in New York City has always been a powerful temptation into crazy stunts and death-defying pranks.

This provides a powerful psychological temptation to trust this online platform as a safe haven from the rejection they face offline from family members to school mates to fellow hobby participants.

I will admit that having been a singer my entire life, I recognize the powerful temptation that comes with seeing semi-talented artists release songs on the radio after having appeared on a reality show.

The president expressed wariness of the powerful temptation drones pose to policy makers.

SUZANNE NOSSEL Executive Director Amnesty International USA New York, Nov. 27, 2012 To the Editor: You report that President Obama is finally expressing some "wariness of the powerful temptation drones pose to policy makers.

That's a term that psychological scientists use to describe the strategies we use to help us with self-control in the face of powerful temptation.