Sentence examples for immediate temptation from inspiring English sources

Our contention is that smokers exhibit poor self-control in the face of immediate temptation — which can look like a willingness to assume risk.

The immediate temptation was to wonder how Flemenstar might fare if dropped to two miles, for a showdown with Sprinter Sacre in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

CANDACE CARROLL La Jolla, Calif., July 28, 2013   To the Editor: Eyal Ert and Eldad Yechiam suggest that smokers continue to smoke because they "exhibit poor self-control in the face of immediate temptation".

But the punch-line comprises the dunes themselves: standing 450ft high, they are serious sand real-estate – and there's an immediate temptation to roll all the way down them to the calm waters at their base.

All well and good, but so much has happened in the decade he has been away, the immediate temptation is to point out the forbearance required for him to implement his masterplan is unlikely to be afforded by the club.

Since procrastination is often the product of immediate temptation, there is something to be said for off-the-shelf options that provide an incentive to voluntarily pre-commit to saving and incorporate a penalty for going back on the voluntary pre-commitment at the time when the savings deposits are due.

Karlan's research, and the results obtained at stickK, suggest that most people, when they are thinking calmly, have a sense of what is in their interests, but, faced with more immediate temptations, are often unable to keep to their plans.

The most effective type of distraction seems to be imagining another desirable reward, which takes attention away from the immediate temptations.

Individuals with deficits in ability to allocate attention, whether toward long-term goals or simply away from immediate temptations – will be especially subject to interference, and therefore evidence steeper delay-of-reinforcement gradients.

Put a frame around it in your mind, as if it were a picture or photograph, to make the temptation less immediate.

Playing with the Ensemble Intercontemporain also gave him an alternative to the temptations of immediate and short-lived success on the bravura circuit.