Sentence examples for tempts from inspiring English sources

This tempts some Russians to threaten dire things.

Their widespread availability and cheapness in developing countries, where other medical resources are scanty, tempts doctors to overprescribe them.

That tempts them to spend taxpayers' money on schemes that they might otherwise not bother with.

Sceptics also claim that REDD ignores some causes of deforestation, like the demand for soy, beef, palm oil, and timber which tempts people to act illegally.But things are changing on that front.

But, compared with other drugs, cannabis is still relatively benign and the thought of that extra tax revenue tempts hard-up California.

(Virginia Woolf surmised that it might be possible to write such a life, and it still tempts me, though it would be a slim book indeed).

The gaping wealth-gap doubtless tempts many into opportunistic robbery.

Its performance was brilliant, until it crashed.The need to maintain smooth returns also tempts managers to resort to fraud when things go wrong.

The way UKIP went to war with itself the moment its raison d'être getting Britain out of the European Union became achievable, tempts the thought.

Hong Kong, for instance, has arrangements only for the voluntary sharing of blacklists by banks.The problem is not so much that this stunts market growth credit cards have boomed in Hong Kong but that it tempts banks once again to lend blindly and recklessly, only this time not to companies but to individuals.

The Netherlands has an exceptionally open economy, exporting 70% of output, so it is a leading voice against protectionism of the sort that tempts some American congressmen.