The temptation in a new school is to come in with a blueprint and hand it down to staff and students.
It reads: "It brought the nation to its knees, but now we've gotten back up how have things changed; what have we learned?" The temptation, after a new mass killing in another Denver suburb, is to whisper in reply: "Not very much in 13 years".
"The temptation for a new minister is to make their mark, but the last thing students and teachers need is another raft of reforms".
He would be well advised to break with Treasury tradition and avoid the temptation to produce a new policy out of a hat.
He has resisted the temptation to sign a new nuclear arms agreement with Russia that might not provide American inspectors with the level of verification detail that they want.
At the end of a decade in business, he published his first novel, The Last Temptation, which was a New York Times bestseller and a main selection of the Literary Guild.
Ezra Klein, a blogger who had tangled with him, wrote in his blog on Friday, "The temptation to create a new persona and rally support for yourself in comments can be almost overwhelming".
But as Mr. Putin draws power back to the Kremlin, the temptation to fashion a new autocracy will be great, especially for a man steeped in the ethic of the K.G.B, where he worked for many years.
"I think we should resist the temptation of finding a new Lib Dem policy that is so intellectually satisfying it flies at the next election and attracts support from no-one but ourselves," he said.
In Cibber's Love's Last Shift, a free-living Restoration rake is brought to repentance and reform by the ruses of his wife, while in The Relapse, the rake succumbs again to temptation and has a new love affair.
The temptation to splurge on a new venture or technology is always greatest when a boom is peaking; and the dotcom mania provided lots of opportunities to indulge.
