Sentence examples for major temptation from inspiring English sources

Although Japan's limited natural resources offered no major temptation to colonizers, Western nations increased pressure on Japan to open its ports.

Of course, a major temptation onstage is to confess one's own private villainy, the villainy of the actor attempting to come to terms with all the iniquities within the profession.

Mr. Lewis never allows his plot or characters to wobble off into burlesque, one of the major temptations a writer faces with things Italian.

When a company faces a major crisis, the temptation may be to hide it with the hope that no one in the public notices.

Mexico is the only developing country that shares a border with a major industrial democracy, making temptation go both ways, she said.

Dr. Russell Harris, an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina and a member of a board that evaluates cancer therapies for the National Institutes of Health, said the temptation at major cancer centers like Anderson was to try treatment after treatment.

Still, Randy acknowledged the temptations for major leaguers to make money by using illegal steroids.

The lure of major money is always a temptation, and the Internet, with its worldwide web of gamblers, makes it all the more possible to get in big and deep.

Whatever names it uses, UBS is showing that it can make money even in tough times by holding costs down, being very selective about taking on risk and resisting the temptation to make major acquisitions outside its core business of wealth management, analysts said.

The huge numbers tossed out by auction houses at the end of major sales further stimulate the temptation to have a fling, particularly when they hear that in contrast to the rest of the economy, the art market continues to be bullish.

Resist the temptation to ignore major character flaws, misdeeds, inconsistencies.