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.
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).
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 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.
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.
It many sound like a great deal, but there are plenty of reasons you should resist the temptation.
"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.
Fiscal authorities should resist the temptation to increase government expenditures continually in order to compensate for shortfalls of private consumption and investment.
Regrettably, Collison cannot resist the temptation to editorialize about Indonesian politics and sometimes seems to lose the thread of the narrative as he pursues various sidetracks.
Carnival has to resist the temptation to explain, minimize, or justify what happened and position itself instead as part of the solution to the problems that caused the disaster.
At that stage, Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the Italian opposition, found the temptation to cause domestic mischief too great to resist.
Involved as it is in the fiendishly difficult process of ensuring a peaceful succession in Ethiopia and choosing a president in Somalia, the West should resist the temptation to look for another Meles.
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