If you rest too long in between, you might be tempted to quit.
Oftentimes you’ll be tempted to do a lot more than necessary.
Researchers call these tendencies "relationship maintenance strategies," where we downplay the attractiveness of others we might be tempted by.
Those tempted to abandon the free market and capitalism in the current crisis need to look carefully at the record of countries moving down that path.
Q: five precepts are the basic precepts of the Buddha disciples. But when some people take the warning, they clearly know what they cannot do, but they cannot be punished because they cannot be tempted.
His friend tempted him into wrongdoings.
On reading diplomats’ dissembling, people may be tempted to sneer.
But taming lightning is a prospect that has tempted experimenters since at least the Olympian thunderbolts of Zeus.
As routine displaces novelty, we may be tempted to shift our attention to someone new and taste again the thrill of romantic love.
Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.
"I have tempted a priest," he said.
Without a servant’s heart, you will be tempted to misuse your shape for personal gain.
And third, that governments will therefore be tempted into inflation or devaluation as a way of softening the blow.
If, as many economists forecast, the Bank of England cuts short-term rates to 2%, British savers could be tempted by the allure of government bonds yielding 3-4%.
It's hard to avoid being tempted into this design pitfall.
So if there are good reasons why an honest woman might be tempted to misrepresent herself, wouldn't it make sense that an honest man might be tempted to do the same thing?
Try bringing breakfast foods to work, too, like dry cereal and milk or instant oatmeal, and you won't be tempted to buy an expensive pastry or muffin on the way into the office, she said.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
I'm almost tempted not to bring her, because I don't want her to remember her Grandpa in such a frail and fragile position.
Busfield argued that doctors were tempted to prescribe unnecessarily because they wanted to help patients and to avoid risk.
This tempted them to neglect the simpler quality of resilience.
Eve tempted Adam and he fell.
Mel was tempted to laugh, then supposed he had better not.
Mr Sarkozy says he will not budge on the retirement age. But he will be tempted to give some ground, in order to thwart further disruption.
Many slaves, tempted by freedom, joined Loyalist units, such as Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment; so did many, though not all, of the Native American tribes on the frontier.
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