Sentence examples for on the temptation from inspiring English sources

Go, GB!", my kids and grandkids cheered me on, the temptation to stop and walk was resisted, just.

This group had gathered for an introductory workshop on "The Temptation of St. Anthony," by Gustave Flaubert, one of six new Wilson productions being developed at Watermill this summer, and the dramaturge surprised nearly everyone by arriving when he'd said he would, a few minutes after noon.

It's like a 19th-century take on the Temptation of St Anthony.

On the temptation for cash-strapped departments to save money by getting rid of subject librarians, she said: "Some institutions will just see the library as a repository for books or as a supermarket.

In the late 1820s Balzac dabbled in several business ventures, a penchant his sister blamed on the temptation of an unknown neighbor.

Nevertheless, the crucial result arising from Fig. 1 is that the dependence of the level of cooperation on the temptation parameter b is very different for both networks.

For example, a series of opulent, innovative mixed media works incorporating collaged foil -- variations on the altarpiece/icon; as well as recurring meditations on the theme of the Temptation of St. Anthony.

Jantar's take: Okay, normally I ignore all movies-based-on but the temptation to design one to order, as it were, is too hard to resist.

On one hand the temptation to loan him out with a view to regular football and enhanced development was tempting.

Jones's presence was felt on the Temptations' Ain't Too Proud to Beg, one of the hardest Motown stompers, but it's his effervescent, shimmering turns on Cloud Nine and Psychedelic Shack, and Smokey Robinson's gloriously soft I Second That Emotion, not to mention Marvin Gaye's radically reworked I Heard It Through the Grapevine, where he came into his own.

Will Bill sell his soul on the temptation-filled isle of Manhattan?