So we cannot resist the temptation of taking one more trip to the pun buffet.
But few can resist the temptation of buying a rising asset with a cut-price loan.
Politicians cannot be trusted to resist the temptation of balancing the budget by underfunding defined benefit plans.
To be a little hungry and yet to resist the temptation of eating.
First, governments must resist the temptation of education cuts, despite economic pressures.
The next few months will indicate whether the ruling party's new leaders are able to resist the temptation of doing exactly what they accuse Mr Mbeki of: meddling with the prosecution for political ends.
After a big bowl of vegetable soup - the best yet - we resist the temptation of a Dracula dessert (fruit ice cream and jam in a pancake) and walk out through the Wolf Room into the dying day.
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Through the year, discount retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target have performed relatively well, as they resist the temptation of passing on prices to consumers and to retain competitive pricing. (See On The Verge of a Global Food Crisis).
Resist the temptation to think of shifting money from low freedom environments to high freedom environments as unpatriotic.
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This new project, directed by Steven Brill, is a comedy about bullying a risky topic at the best of times and Brill cannot resist the temptation to delve for laughs, at once simple and uneasy, at the sight of inflicted pain.
The ugly and rather futile history of the Wright Amendment should be a powerful persuader for Washington to resist the temptation to try to restrict this breakthrough in the name of protecting existing carriers.
But the ACLU expressed concern that TSA officers would not be able to resist the temptation to save images of certain people, such as celebrities, and that the plan to blur faces might later be changed.
The Constitution protects us from our own best intentions: It divides power among sovereigns and among branches of government precisely so that we may resist the temptation to concentrate power in one location as an expedient solution to the crisis of the day.
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The fact that even as he faced a Jewish audience, Jones couldn't resist the temptation to repeat the central fallacy at the root of the administration's failed policies in the Middle East makes clear that the Obama administration fundamentally does not care that the American people as a whole and the American Jewish community specifically oppose its policies.
The cardinal paid tribute to organisations which have been helping asylum seekers and said he would "resist the temptation" to be ashamed of his city because he knew it could do better.
I'll resist the temptation to speculate on the quality of something thrown away by Scots.
One thing I want to emphasize, and I'm saying this because I couldn't resist the temptation to watch a little bit of some of this coverage last night on TV.
But all of us should resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater that sometimes dominates the discussion here in Washington.
Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively, focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives.
He must, in particular, resist the temptation either to accede to any form of Soviet linkage that would kill the U.S. SDI program or to rely on creative ambiguity to protect it.
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In recent public appearances President Bush and Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney have sensibly argued that the political situation in the Soviet Union is so dynamic and the military capabilities of the USSR still so formidable that the United States must resist the temptation to alter radically the U.S. defense posture.
It many sound like a great deal, but there are plenty of reasons you should resist the temptation.
America must resist the temptation to make every security issue a test of China's good faith.
"The United States must, in particular, resist the temptation to appease its allies in the hope that, by so doing, some vestige of the needed multilateral export control regime can be preserved, " Gaffney concluded.
As we democratize language and literacy we have to resist the temptation to see in its evolution a sort of breakdown or moral failure simply because not everyone speaks or writes as well as the Bard or as Ralph Fiennes.
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At last year's meeting, however, directors persuaded 73% of those voting to resist the temptation to grab the money and run, arguing that they would get better value in the long run from having their mortgages and savings with a mutual organisation.
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" In his world, judges must resist the "temptation to make all thing right with a stroke of our pen.
Resist the temptation to join in, add your own juicy piece of gossip, or talk about how much work you have and how hard it is for you, too.
It is inconceivable that the governments of these nations could long resist even if they were inclined to do so the temptation to translate new-found leverage on the United States into pressure on Israel.
Fiscal authorities should resist the temptation to increase government expenditures continually in order to compensate for shortfalls of private consumption and investment.
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