Sentence examples for growing temptation from inspiring English sources

The most obvious problem is the growing temptation to over-reach.

I must resist the growing temptation to spare myself hours of work by using Sellotape rather than glue.

But the problem is that as more of the creatures are successfully released into the wild there will be a growing temptation to capture and sell these iguanas as high priced exotic pets.

"Today, if we are to be strong at home and lead abroad, we must overcome a dangerous and growing temptation in our land to focus solely on the problems we face here in America," he said.

Eventually, however, many hedge funds succumb to the temptation of growing too big.

On his return, Littell warned Alain Juppe, then French foreign minister, that "the regime was doing its utmost to provoke cycles of sectarian violence while the FSA was frantically trying to contain them; born out of despair the Islamist temptation was growing but had yet to gain any serious ground".

With broader and more dubious patents being granted all the time, the temptation is growing both for producing and non-producing patent holders to use litigation not to protect true innovation but to slow down competitors or siphon off their profits.

It's fairly easy to understand the temptation of growing a profitable crop like cannabis for people in the rural and underdeveloped parts of the country.

Relaxed regulation and increased competition now confront investors with temptations that growing numbers of them are ill-equipped to resist.

And the more tired I grew, the more temptation increased around me. Double-deckers with the name of my distant destinations rolled past; black cabs were a wave away, but still I walked on.

Of course, the temptation grows when you're already struggling, so we asked Kiwis the most outrageous thing they've done to stay afloat.