Besides tempting men to sin, the fallen angels, or devils, were believed to cause various types of calamities, both natural and accidental.
We ought not to risk adding to the number of one-parent families by tempting men to walk out before the threshold qualifying period, say two years, in order to avoid financial liability, when all recent studies show that Britain's children are the unhappiest and poorest in Europe.
In a typical 'item number' women are desirable objects constantly tempting men.
As a singular demonic force or personification of evil, the devil's chief activity was to tempt man to act in such a way that he would not achieve his supraterrestrial destiny.
The man I had pushed away the moment I started growing, the man who, though he was my father, I had never got close to except when we quarrelled; this vivacious, easygoing, easily tempted man with a mania for good posture and, as he put it, "nice, neat handwriting," who loved me after his fashion, the eternal husband; this man stood next to me as the train pulled in through a cloud of steam.
His ordinary activity is to tempt man toward evil, to lead him to temptation, to sin, to push him to break divine law.
They were easily tempted by sin and, in turn, tempted men to commit it.
The Buccaneers, with the league's top-rated pass defense, thought they could tempt Manning into game-changing mistakes.
When Meurent, who narrates the book, meets Manet for the first time, she is a poor young silver burnisher who teams with her roommate Denise to tempt men into taking them to dinner.
