Sentence examples for than tempting from inspiring English sources

For retailers, 2010 may be more about winning sales from competitors than tempting consumers to buy more.

Finally, the pan-seared breast and stewed leg of duck, both tender and succulent, were paired with sweet vegetables prepared with Moroccan seasonings and an even sweeter jus, resulting in the kind of combination that's immediately filling rather than tempting.

Perhaps that is why on Friday, it was more than tempting to dredge up old images of kisses in Times Square in 1945 or Germans tearing down the Berlin Wall — and the long surges of prosperity that soon enough followed those euphoric moments, after the ends of World War II and the cold war.

Nevertheless, it is more than tempting to explore the capabilities of the noninvasive, fast, and spatially highly resolved fMRI method to validate and to predict the therapeutic success over a broader range of chronic inflammatory disorders and cytokine-targeting therapies.

It is more than tempting to describe him as animated: his diminutive height, the mobility of his eyebrows (his colleagues at DreamWorks have used them as reference for facial expressions of characters in their films), and the glint of mischief beneath his geniality all make him kin to the computer-generated characters that he has devoted his career to bringing to life.

I switch to the only white wine on the first-class list, the less-than tempting Geyser Peak Chardonnay, also from California, which retails for around ten bucks per bottle, and is a wine you might get as a bar-pour at your local Mafioso fern-joint.

Since the threat of nuclear attacks means as little to the young as the Empire, they can no more be scaremongered into supporting Trident than tempted to do so by the façade of global importance it confers.

A lack of joined-up thinking across Whitehall departments and an initial concentration on persuading those already active to exercise more rather than tempt those who had never played or were lapsed back into sport also stymied progress.

No, I'm not saying anything.Q.You've had otherprojects that ended, perhaps, in ways you didn't want them to, or before you wanted them to-A.I'm sure I don't know what you mean.Q.-so after something like "Dr. Horrible," are you ever tempted to chuck it all and only produce things for the Internet A.I'm more than tempted.

I would be more than tempted to agree with you.

It is not surprising that in this environment, CCP officials prefer to work in the SOEs rather than in the party or state bureaucracy and that ministers, provincial governors or city mayors, whose official salaries have remained modest, are more than tempted to develop a business on the side, mainly through their spouse or children, and to accept bribes.