Sentence examples for we may succumb from inspiring English sources

We protect children from what we feel they cannot fully cope with or understand, and the risks of writing a children's book for grown-ups are that it may tell us that life and humans are better than we know to be the case or that we may succumb to the comfort offered by familiar material.

That is, contrary to what the successes of science and technology might tell us, we may succumb to the spirit of abstraction out of passional reasons rather than intellectual expediency.

It is worth emphasizing, however, that both the loss of control seen in addiction and ordinary weakness of will involve reason-responsive behavior; behavior, that is, that seems to be under the control of doxastic states (as Austin (1979: 198) notes, we may "succumb to temptation with calm and even with finesse").

We hypothesize that autophagy-active cancer cells may succumb in response to drugs that hyperstimulate autophagy.

More governors may succumb to the arithmetic.

Some offspring may succumb to a flood or a germ.

Marie is proudly immune to acedia, but others may succumb.

Witchcraft aside, if you love architecture, history and culture, you may succumb to Salem's magic.

In the hurly-burly of the garden, they may succumb, overtaken by more boisterous individuals.

Or the legislation may succumb to partisan politics and regional and ideological differences.

It may succumb to the lure of international oil profits from anticipated offshore discoveries.