Sentence examples for various temptations from inspiring English sources

Bass enumerates the various temptations Kissinger prepared for her: "famine relief, international relief presence, civilian governor, amnesty, unilateral withdrawal".

She does suggest that Jacob might be a "gilgul neshamot", a transmigrated Jewish soul, with a demonic mission "to derail the righteous and lead them into various temptations".

I don't think Byron fully understood the potential of fiction to conceal and reveal yourself before Childe Harold was published, and it took him seven years to work through the various temptations of success to get to the kernel of the breakthrough and develop it further.

(Here in America we may accept the constitutional separation of church and state, but church and sex are much harder to keep apart.) On the field Miguel hits his stride early, is slowed down by an injury, faces various temptations and then..

At the same venue Owen McCafferty's drama Unfaithful is a modern version of Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, in which a married couple and their respective sexual temptations are seen in various permutations, lying with, and lying to, each other.

Extending the observations shown on Figure 1 we decided to compare the level of cooperation in PD-games on small-world and scale-free networks at various levels of temptations (T, the defector's payoff, when it meets a cooperator) in detail.

But today's copious life of foods, images, and various inputs of temptation makes it more difficult to really withdraw from guilty pleasures and to build and sustain a refined "being", which is the real objective of Ramadan.

This is particularly so when it comes to Steve Cohen, who knows better than any other CEO what kind of edges are needed for success in the trading game and the temptations behind various alternative doors for that success.

The temptation to aggregate these various elements and present them as the BRICS approach is tempting but upon closer scrutiny it is clear that few of those elements are common to all five countries [ 29].

Points were earned through passing various tasks, and were lost if contestants entered the "Temptation Hut", which contained various modern electrical appliances.

It's even a challenge for the governments of democratic countries to resist the temptation to tinker with Internet fixes for various social causes.