Sentence examples for our temptation from inspiring English sources

Our temptation in the face of rampant government failures is to despise government, and even to cheer its demise.

When crime is linked to deep social problems like misogyny and racism, our temptation is very much to look anywhere else for answers – and that's dangerous in itself.

Nicolas Boukhrief's film was made before them, and yet, for all that, struggles against our temptation to decode it as unwitting commentary on them.

The two met on an Internet dating site and traveled together during their first year as a couple, "so we could build up our temptation resistance," Mr. Brownlee said.

The answer will vary for each of us, depending on whether we can find some other way to reduce our temptation to go to cash at the first sign of trouble.

Recall our temptation to say the post-money valuation should be $22 million $15 millionn pre-money valuation plus $7 million raised in the round), but that would be incorrect in this case.

The internet means that we can never get away from ourselves, our temptations and obsessions.

You had to be there, in a Belgium that the artist evoked with lyrical sarcasm in 1924: "Yes, our actions are pictorial, our inventions are enormous, our thoughts are tragicomical, our temptations are burlesque, our desires are born of the flatlands, our paradises are made of dough and condensed milk, and our endearments are made of butter".

In his book The Virtue of Our Vices, philosophy professor Emrys Westacott argues for giving into our temptations when it comes to habits such as gossip, rudeness or snobbery.

"Sanctification is not getting rid of our temptations, but pursuing holiness in the midst of them," Yuan wrote.

If we imagine a force working against us, we're more likely to get fired up, resist our temptations, and work harder to achieve our goals.