Sentence examples for temptations from inspiring English sources

Are children and teenagers today facing unprecedented dangers and temptations?

But she also believes people need more help to avoid the temptations of unhealthy food that is available everywhere and heavily marketed.

In such an environment, the temptations for malfeasance are huge; the risks minimal – despite the SEC's big crackdown on insider trading.

At the dawn of the modern age, this great image echoes old depictions of the Temptations of St. Anthony, whose assailants have not gone away after all.

And the editorial perspective of the polyglot and remorselessly internationally minded World Service helps the more intelligent end of BBC journalism to steel itself against the temptations of celebrity rubbish.

Can he make it – hard, progressive, conscientious, fighting free of the cliches – without losing his grip, dissolving into posture, whitening his stance, giving in to the softening, modifying temptations of post-real iPop fame?

It means you are a long-term tactician who has the strength to swat away petty temptations in order to achieve a distant yet valuable prize.

The temptations are everywhere.

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.

Neither has a deep grasp of market economics (although they both claim to support the idea) and perhaps neither can be trusted to resist the temptations of populism or assertive nationalism.

With an apparently straight face, the writer of the minute of the meeting noted that "such amount did not trouble the participants, so long as the nature of the services was not an issue".For years, regulators and analysts have been giving warning of the temptations and pitfalls of such intricate arrangements.