Sentence examples for temptation to destroy from inspiring English sources
It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.
Jack Carson, a studio publicist, hates Norman Maine, and you can see why he gives in to the temptation to destroy him.
History suggests that the temptation to hide or destroy evidence is powerful, and the consequences, known as "process crimes," can proliferate quickly.
To reduce the financial burden and the temptation inherent in storing hundreds of tusks, some countries have chosen to destroy their stockpiles.
"There has never been a concerted regional effort to destroy the organization," Shadi Hamid, author of a new book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in the New Middle East, told VICE News.
That assumption, embodied in the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, stipulated that the ability of either side to destroy the other -- mutually assured destruction -- created a safer world by making the temptation to use nuclear weapons simply too risky to consider.
The exorcist also said that the abuse scandal showed that Satan uses priests to try to destroy the church, "and so we should not be surprised if priests too... fall into temptation.
In Fox's "Temptation Island," the Lewinsky story is symbolically re-enacted each week as lubricious single men and women "tempt" couples to destroy their relationships by indulging in extracurricular affairs.
"Strategy, to destroy people?
If the Kremlin or the secret services want to destroy an inconvenient satirist or an irritating journalist, they often find a way to lure him into the usual human temptations, record the proceedings, and make the results public.
