Sentence examples for temptation to scale from inspiring English sources

In its 2010 publication, Mass Localism, reflecting on the success of the challenge and the importance of innovation and diversity, Nesta said the government should resist the temptation to scale successful community innovation and should instead enable local innovation to flourish.

The second temptation will be to scale back the whole enterprise so that you can declare victory with a much smaller bill.

He thought it was the work of politics to nurture such beliefs and to support them through small-scale initiatives, avoiding the temptation to replicate or scale them up to a level beyond which professional bureaucracies take over.

The temptation when launching an online community is to scale, scale, scale -- to grow as quickly as possible by opening the community to everyone instead of cultivating a tribe.

Over the years I had visited many times and made a mental note to scale the tower and tour the adjacent Provincetown Museum, but resisted the temptation.

The larger the business, the greater the temptation to create economies of scale, to process the "human resources". Sometimes it's unavoidable.

Therein lies the temptation to launch a large-scale fishing expedition for all potentially interesting hypotheses.

When story after story features human suffering on a large scale, the temptation to shut it all out mounts.

Situational temptation to smoke was assessed using the nine-item smoking self-efficacy scale.

But for those who want a non-standard experience, scaling one of Hokkaido's most iconic volcanoes is too big a temptation to resist.

We have to resist the temptation to use information, regardless of how it is obtained, that tips the scales in the employer's favor.