Time and again, Isaacson repeatedly asks Jobs about Gates and Jobs cannot resist the gratuitous dig.
So we cannot resist the temptation of taking one more trip to the pun buffet.
People cannot resist provoking you when you are at the position of attention, it seems.
Now that voluntarism in Japan is suddenly on the increase, the government cannot resist regulating it.
Where banks hang back, Europe's governments still cannot resist the temptation to meddle.
It is also partly because of timing and as Victor Hugo wrote, One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
But Zynga evidently cannot resist running a good franchise to the ground.
Mr Korda's prose skips along through 700 pages but he cannot resist the biographer's twitch of making pointless, speculative claims for his subject.
But while Blanchett gives a stirring performance in the role, director Joel Schumacher cannot resist saddling his biopic with the usual Hollywood sentiment and bombast.
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.
"I cannot resist a first reply, which is that not everything is known, as yet, about the wheel, either the mathematics of it or the physics, " Hawkins wrote.
It is as if some politicians seem so full of hubris they cannot resist flying so close to the sun and then seem surprised when, like Icarus, they fall to the ground.
Singaporean leaders, it seems, would rather drink their own purified effluent than rely on Malaysia for anything, while their Malaysian counterparts cannot resist the temptation to pick a populist fight with their former compatriots.
Normally I would not give this kind of facile argument much attention, but it is such a perfect illustration of a point I have made for years about the climate debate that I simply cannot resist.
Some governments cannot resist the urge to protect their national champions from foreign ownership, but Australia's Prime Minister John Howard is being distinctly noninterventionist following overseas interest in Qantas, his country's biggest and oldest airline.
He cannot resist making sideswipes at business theorists, telling anecdotes that put him in a heroic light and floating impractical radical ideas (such as loyalty premiums on dividends paid to shareholders as an incentive for long-term investment).
Regardless of these challenges, entrepreneurs, educators, and students cannot resist the advantages that technology brings to the table, and thus technology is finally starting to bring about the transformation in education that we have all long hoped for.
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Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.
Politicians cannot be trusted to resist the temptation of balancing the budget by underfunding defined benefit plans.
But I cannot, in closing, resist a comment: Was it really inevitable that Japan, as well as the U.S. and so many other countries, adopted the Bismarckian model of national pension schemes?
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