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.
In my experience, the temptation to do so is immense.
To his immense credit, Winehouse seems to have resisted the temptation to whitewash his daughter's story, to try to posthumously beatify her.
The third shrewd thing Cebrowski has done is resist the temptation to throw himself onto the immense grindstone of the annual budget process, which has pulped generations of reformers.
Under the temptations of trade and discovery, an immense emigration, chiefly of males, poured into California, not only from the United States, but also from Mexico, Chili, Peru, China, the Sandwich Islands, and other parts...
The temptation for a vicarious do-over is immense, and so are the stage-mom rationalizations.
For an information-driven hedge fund like SAC, the temptation to exploit the expert-network relationship was immense, two former employees said.
And the temptation to dive in head on is, of course, immense.
And once American troops withdraw, the temptation to meddle — by Iran and Syria but also by Turkey and Saudi Arabia — will be immense.
Because of his immense prestige in the early sixteenth century, many scribes and publishers did not resist the temptation of attributing anonymous or otherwise spurious works to Josquin.
