Sentence examples similar to cannot resist temptation from inspiring English sources

Even our current president cannot resist this temptation.

It appears that officers cannot resist the temptation to increase their pay.

Hence there are times when even they cannot resist the temptation to assert themselves with a prematurely aggressive shot.

Not for some years have the continent's commercial banks wielded so much power.Where banks hang back, Europe's governments still cannot resist the temptation to meddle.

In such a fantasy-filled environment, of course, it is not long before love blossoms.The author, however, cannot resist the temptation to rodentomorphise his characters.

Perhaps they cannot resist the temptation of mounting an operation that would sound really daring if it was written up in the media.

But he cannot resist the temptation to do so, and their chance is lost: Eurydice disappears into the Underworld for ever.

(Isherwood) ★ 'pool (no water)' (closes on Saturday) Mark Ravenhill's knife-sharp, perceptive play examines an accident's fallout on the lives of five artists who cannot resist the temptation to exploit the incident to further their own stalled careers.

This new project, directed by Steven Brill, is a comedy about bullying — a risky topic at the best of times — and Brill cannot resist the temptation to delve for laughs, at once simple and uneasy, at the sight of inflicted pain.

Separation of church and state should be a cherished no-brainer under the Constitution, but that never seems so in an election year when some clergyman or other cannot resist the temptation to speak out as a political boss.

A design that includes three scenarios describing alternative outcomes along a single dimension is dangerous because many managers cannot resist the temptation to identify the middle scenario as a baseline.