Sentence examples for temptation to accept from inspiring English sources

I must avoid professional denial, which can be so damaging, and the temptation to accept a patient's excuse or explanation.

Barclays, meanwhile, acquired Lehman's North American businesses while avoiding the temptation to accept the British government's financing and its attached strings.

"As to the information and allegations contained in the Mitchell report, the Orioles caution observers to resist the temptation to accept collective judgments based upon unsubstantiated allegations," the statement said.

While it looks for another sponsor, hoping the sport's clean image will help, the association is resisting the temptation to accept much more money from the ports that want to host tall-ships events, for fear that commercialism will supersede the young crews' needs.

Instead, he said, a profusion of inexperienced newspaper reporters and editors who are taking advantage of the opportunity to create a free press are quickly yielding to the temptation to accept payments from people who want articles written to their specifications.

Indeed, there would surely be a temptation to accept such an offer.

Pickhardt admits that while there's a temptation to write a false review to gain competitive advantage, doing so requires accepting a new moral footing, to accept that it's OK to be untruthful on the web.

Don't accept favors - Resist the temptation to ask for or accept help from fellow inmates.

I, too, had resisted the temptation to slurp Szmura's soup and had accepted bags of TV dinners and dried Twinkies from Pany Mayska.

So perhaps the Medievals have succumbed to the temptation to read into Aristotle's system connections that Aristotle did not accept.

And the temptation to slip miracle balls out of contact takes hold, gifts unfailingly accepted by all southern foes.