How do the values, the moral and when necessary physical courage develop to resist evil, to act in others' behalf, to work on building a peaceful and harmonious society or world?
Like Bill Clinton, Mr. Bush is finding that as leader of the lone superpower, it can be hard to resist world pressure to act to save lives.
NASA would do well to resist the temptation to act upon the invitation inherent in the words of Dr. Michael Malin, who heads the Global Surveyor imaging team.
Rather, he warned the military to resist violence and to act swiftly to restore a democratically elected government, with a transition process that includes all elements of Egyptian society, including the Brotherhood.
One of the dissenters, Kathleen Casey, complained that the move was guided "less by empirical analysis and more by public relations" and that "we should resist the urge to act merely to say we have acted".
Therefore reason alone cannot resist any impulse to act.
One ought to resist the temptation to act viciously in circumstances when vice will not be detected.
However, you need to resist the urge to act and make decisions for your mentee and instead do the difficult task of listening.
People who are shy, quiet, etc. may initially be perceived as less valuable group members, but resist the temptation to act based on those judgments.
This is the virtue that produces self-control, the ability to resist the temptation to act violently in satisfaction of desires, the temptation that, in Plato's scheme of things, characteristically leads tyrants to disaster.
