With the advent of high-stakes testing in dozens of states, and the fact that under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, schools with low graduation rates risk being deemed failing schools, schools are facing real temptations to make their results look good by getting rid of low performers.
When schools "are facing real temptations to make their results look good by getting rid of low performers," and dedicated professionals report that they must "focus on the numbers," rather than on the kids, education is not fulfilling its function of helping children achieve their potential and become productive members of society.
We are seeing the coincidence of two regimes in China and Japan which are facing crises of legitimacy and a temptation to turn to issues of nationalism to compensate.
People are faced with immense temptations to take risks with their bank's capital or reputation, knowing that if they don't act on them, their colleague across the desk will.
Despite the ardent desire to sustain life, medical professionals can withstand the temptation to intervene when they are faced with the patient who wishes not to be resuscitated.
I gave up Tasti D-Lite after we returned from a short vacation, so I'd already gone four days without it by the time I was faced with temptation.
When the second group was faced with a temptation, they were told to say "I don't do X".
She was faced with this temptation and also experienced pangs of conscience, so there's a conflict opening a window into the unknown.
One group was told that each time they were faced with a temptation, they would tell themselves "I can't do X".
But while Koneswaran takes issue with the tradition, she still refuses to "cross the line" and enter temples while menstruating, even when she was faced with the temptation to wander into especially ornate religious sites while traveling across South Asia.
"But as soon as I got off it I gained like 20 pounds that I still have on me". Fauerso was living in Emeryville, Calif., when she was on the diet but moved to Texas in 2001, where she was faced with the temptations of breakfast tacos, margaritas and chips.
