Sentence examples for temptation to which from inspiring English sources

The book is way too long, a temptation to which respected writers can sometimes succumb.

It is a temptation to which some of his age and stature have succumbed.

She avoids the temptation, to which other writers have succumbed, of presenting the oppressed Tibetans as living saints untainted by the usual human vices of greed and mendacity.

The other temptation to which auction houses give in when seeking to fill their catalogs is recycling objects with revised descriptions.

Human beings weren't designed to manage the level of temptation to which we're exposed every day.

But, backed against the wall with his hands tied behind him, all the while invested with what he considered the sacred task to protect a people who were being bombarded day and night, he resisted the temptation to which others might have given in, to accept, for lack of anything better, the only concrete assistance being offered -- that of Iran.

But those same Lib Dems underestimate the emotional temptations to which they are giving way.The Lib Dems think it unfair that they are hated.

It's unlikely Moore imagined "The Scarlet Letter" as prefiguring her story of her father and the adulterous temptations to which he succumbed.

In the television question-and-answer session on Friday, the pope urged Christians in war-torn Iraq "to resist the temptation to emigrate, which is very understandable in the conditions they are living in".

Lord Stern, author of the influential climate change report of the same name, said the chancellor should have resisted the "temptation to fiddle", which had only increased uncertainty and reduced investor confidence.

This might have been dismissed as the disgruntled comment of a failure had it not been an echo of the "temptation of Venice" to which he referred in an autobiographical book of the same title published four years ago, and to which he claimed to have been always prone throughout his (until then) brilliant political career.Now 51, Mr Juppé would like one day to be France's president.