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Example sentences for: temptation

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McCain says this not with contempt, but with pity for those of his colleagues who cannot resist political temptation.
Stevenson might simply have trouble believing that mustachioed, tobacco-chewing men wearing big, black T-shirts can resist the temptation to cry for blood.
When the layout is done by hand through tracing on a sheet of paper, there is always a temptation for the operator to tilt a particular piece a bit more, squeezing it into the marker or “shrinking” the silhouette of some of the pieces to get them all on the marker.
Among its pieces of international renown are The Adoration of St Vincent, a multi-panel work attributed to the 15th-century Portuguese master, Nuno Gonçalves; and The Temptation of St. Anthony, a fantastic hallucination by Hieronymus Bosch, tempered with humor and executed with mad genius.
No doubt--as former Congressional Budget Office Director Bob Reischauer points out--with all the election-year pressure on Republicans to show they really aren't so bad and the temptation for Clinton to show his newfound muscle, the final appropriations package isn't bad.