Sentence examples for tempted against from inspiring English sources

If you're over 40 and have been tempted against your better judgment to an April-September fling, "The Housekeeper" should produce a sting of recognition.

Now, in Mr. Roth's elegiac new novel, "Exit Ghost" — a kind of valedictory bookend to "The Ghost Writer" — Nathan returns to New York to visit a doctor, and finds himself being tempted, against his better judgment, back into the maelstrom of life.

But bigger odds are tempting against Rex Imperator (3.50).

Any senator tempted to vote against the resolution must recognize the severe consequences.

If I'd been in the House I would have been sorely tempted to vote against the fiscal cliff bill.

Let that be a warning to other elected officials tempted to work against better health care coverage.

But the other parties will be tempted to hedge against the prospect that these assurances may be modified.

These are realities liberals should keep in mind when tempted to rail against conservatives for rejecting the intuitive-seeming promise of "more condoms, fewer abortions".

His main threat is from plotters on his own benches, who might be tempted to move against him if public anger at sleaze and crime deprives him of the big majority he won in the last election, in 2004.

The prime minister might be tempted to retaliate against the Lib Dems if he feels that their new leader has not pinned his colours clearly enough to the cause of constructive opposition.

If Mr. Djukanovic refuses to participate -- and both he and the United States have called the elections illegal -- then Mr. Milosevic will be more tempted to move against him, administration officials said.