Updike often resists the temptation to extend his descriptions of paintings far beyond the four corners of their canvas and he expects others to exercise comparable restraint.
There is a strong temptation to extend the ambition of this operation to Iraq, in order to remove Saddam Hussein from power, eliminate his weapons programmes, and end the Arab belief that American-led sanctions are killing Iraqi children.
They have no desire to indulge in a further round of write-offs, which will weaken their balance-sheets, and thus have a temptation to extend loans and allow covenants (commitments by borrowers to meet certain financial conditions) to be renegotiated.
Many airport operators have balked at the effort, and Congress itself has been reluctant to fund adequately the mandates it imposed on the T.S.A. Congress should resist the temptation to extend the baggage-screening deadline for these airports by an entire year.
Robin Guarino, the director, set the action in the late 1940's (when Sutermeister reworked his radio opera for the stage), thus establishing the plague as World War II (but fortunately resisting the temptation to extend the metaphor by making the Devil a Nazi).
–Building societies and thrifts are hardly immune to poor risk-management, particularly the temptation to extend ever-more generous loans to home buyers in the context of a housing-market bubble.
