Temptation in a sentence as a noun

There's a temptation in politics to see patterns and then fit language to it that kind of fits.

But it would probably be better if we could resist the temptation to panic about it.

I am actually hoping that Google resists the temptation to fight a war of feature creep with Facebook.

Note to future outlaws: resist the temptation to make yourself famous by giving interviews.

The temptation will be to think "Gee if people couldn't just get one of those copies out there already I would be making even more money!

" Yes, they have the motivation to skimp on quality or ingredients, but nothing like Google's temptation.

Sure but lets not give in to the temptation to be armchair CEOs here and proclaim that we know that a different model would have worked better for everyone.

Then you don't have to deactivate those real arrowkeys, because there won't be any temptation to use them with the ijkl keys in the same arrangement and easier to reach.

Because so many real-world problems can be translated into math, there is a temptation to equate "math" with "any problem that can be expressed in math".

'Better to die than to go living here' - thus responds the imperious voices and temptation; and this 'here', this 'at home' is everything it had hitherto loved!

[From a senior *****, instructing a junior in the temptation of a human:]"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact?

Even knowing before hand that they were going to play the sound of someone knocking on doors I had to fight the temptation to turn and look at sho was knocking on the desk next to me.

And while I'm sure that Amazon regularly helps law enforcement track down this sort of thing, I wouldn't doubt that there exists a temptation to not notice that sort of misbehaviour.

Modern philosophy is so fascinating that of course there's a temptation to skip right to it in my personal studies, I bounce back and forth between contemporary writers and writers from other centuries and millennia, letting the former refine my understanding of the latter and the latter provide context for the former.

Kipling put it well: It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say: -- "We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!

Again, this has major impacts on how the system is structured, in particular because it is meaningful to talk about how to restart a "process" in a way that it is not meaningful to talk about how to restart a "channel".Go advocates desperately, desperately need to avoid the temptation to explain to themselves why Erlang isn't as good, because then they'll fail to learn the lessons that Erlang learned the easy way.

Temptation definitions

noun

something that seduces or has the quality to seduce

See also: enticement

noun

the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; "he felt the temptation and his will power weakened"

noun

the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire; "his enticements were shameless"

See also: enticement