Sentence examples for an obvious temptation from inspiring English sources

With so much at stake, there is an obvious temptation for students to play schools off against one another.

When you get things wrong, there is an obvious temptation to dismiss the outcome as a meaningless fluke.

For politicians in office during a time of terror, there is an obvious temptation to hype the threat, to practice the politics of fear.

It is wrongheaded, though an obvious temptation, to connect a play that is so stylish with dish, spin and whatever buzzwords define the yakety-yak of the moment.

Now that the group has mastery of the south, there is an obvious temptation to feel a strong sense of autonomy.

For a while, I played with the idea of The Ice Warriors and, because I specialise in mythology, Sutekh was an obvious temptation.

That sounds simple but it takes self-discipline and a cool head to avoid the obvious temptation to push just a little bit harder.

"In my view, a female teacher who avoids the obvious temptation to respond to flirting or power plays, is often the one who succeeds in persuading both men and women that she is the one with the credibility to get ahead".

The obvious temptation for the US, in an effort to maintain its position, is to double-down on past policies, for – as Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the joint chiefs noted last year – military aid to Egypt was an investment that had "paid off for a long, long time".

With so much publicity for the anniversary episode - I swear Doctor Who was more ubiquitous than mawkish Christmas TV adverts this week - the obvious temptation for Moffat was to make this a big sparkly Doctor Who remember-the-good-old-days special.

With black youths on the streets, throwing rocks and overturning police cars, the obvious temptation would be to exploit the situation as a wedge issue, by defending the police, calling for the rioters to be dealt with harshly, and bemoaning the failure of Great Society programs.