Sentence examples for and we tempt from inspiring English sources

Oil and coal have exposed our Achilles heel to the Fates, and we tempt them every day that we do not aggressively transition to low-energy lives and sustainable fuel sources.

As General Butler observed, it is a near miracle that we have escaped destruction so far, and the longer we tempt fate, the less likely it is that we can hope for divine intervention to perpetuate the miracle.

Nor could we tempt the staff with a raise in the salary as OUH is a non-profit-making hospital and the salaries are largely negotiated centrally.

We learned more about super-producer Don "Top Gun" Simpson than was entirely desirable, and we were tempted by the suggestion that Madonna had had sex with everyone who ever lived in the greater Los Angeles area.

Radio now, and we were tempted by actor Naomi Watts's premature exit from her chat with Simon Mayo, but in the end there was no ignoring Russell Crowe's on-air fallout with Mark Lawson Radio 4's Front Row.

As writers, we are often dazzled by the extraordinary success of people like Steve Jobs at Apple, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Marc Benioff at Salesforce and we are tempted to dwell on their highly personalized leadership styles.

We believe that these findings are highly relevant for the comprehension of the SHFM malformation, and we are tempted to speculate that the reduced expression of FGF8 and Wnt5a (our unpublished data) in the central AER of Dlx5 Dlx6 DKO limbs may induce mis-oriented divisions/movements of mesenchymal cells in this sector, hence altered morphogenesis/loss of central digits.

We don't think straight and we are tempted to use poor judgment in dealing with the situation.

Only once were we tempted to splurge.

"We have -- it seems like -- endless conversations where we're badgering the administration to do x, y and z, and sometimes we're tempted when they actually chose to do x, y and z to say, 'Oh, they listened to us.' But if you're remotely centrist or right of center as an economist, you're going to see the double taxation of dividends as one of the sore thumbs in our tax code".

Political processes will inevitably be messy, and we will be tempted, especially in oil-rich nations, to pick winners and manipulate outcomes.