This left Wallace somewhat depleted, but he could not resist the social and personal imperative to outdo himself.
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Ptolemy could not resist filling blanks on his maps with theoretical conceptions, something that plagues exploration to this day.
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Tzachi Hanegbi, a Likud minister, could not resist a gloat after the speech.
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Even the Slovene Catholic Church could not resist the temptation to get rich quick, setting up its own investment fund.
Coalitions can often successfully block a CEO initiative, and yet not resist the further support of a prestigious outside consultant.
It's a bad thing for Dow Jones and American journalism that the Bancroft Family could not resist Rupert Murdoch's generous offer.
Federal prosecutors could not resist the urge to exert their authority over a matter that traditionally has been regulated under state law.
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But her finance minister, Guido Mantega, could not resist a little boosterism.
But the day he sacked the general, Mr Aso could not resist picking up a volume of similar views from a Tokyo bookstore.
His program of a new architectural outline for San Francisco, one that would not resist earthquakes but use their destructive energy to create new kinds of structures, sounds marvelous.
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Some market watchers had expected this sector to bottom out today, but the overall market tone was negative and the telecom equipment makers could not resist the downward tide.
Spurred on by seeing his friends and colleagues venture over to China and succeed, Silicon Valley tech executive Elliott Ng found he could not resist the lure to go eastward.
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Even when Mr Fordice invited Republican legislators to an opening-session reception this year, he could not resist furiously reciting the names of every legislator who had voted to override his vetoes that day.
She could not resist their appeal for help.
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Thorpe said there was nothing significant about the minute -- but after years of checking the clock following each race, Thorpe could not resist the impulse to peek at the time at the moment he made up his mind.
This time, however, Tamim never had the chance to get into his uninhibited stride as the second ball moved appreciably from the bat and he could not resist nibbling at it, leaving wicketkeeper Matt Prior with a simple catch.
When I wrote to you at Glasgow (which letter I have heard was sent too late) I did not forget your former grief, but I did not allude to it, as I well knew that it was wrong in me to revive your former feelings, but I could not resist writing to you.
Therefore, middle managers could not resist spending all the money that they were saving through the outsourcing on adding additional quality in their product designs and, most of all, a lot of extra detail: a working light on every table in the restaurant carriage, windscreen wipers on the locomotive, a bit of dirt painted on the bottom of the carriages, etc.
The fact that Mr Sadr considered it wise not to resist suggests not only that the army is now strong enough to out-face private militias but also that the state has acquired far greater political legitimacy, in Shia minds at least.
The German chemical giant BASF is working on a toothpaste that will not only resist tooth decay--the familiar ad slogan--but reverse it by rebuilding tooth enamel.
The FBI has updated its definition of rape for the first time in 83 years, to include men and those who do not physically resist as victims.
The ideal nanocomposite would not only resist radiation damage.
It also seems likely that the German government will not adequately resist such pressures, much as it sought to reopen the border issue with Poland a few short years ago after a bilateral reconciliation agreement had been concluded between Bonn and Warsaw.
It was unfortunately not enough to resist the attacks that we saw and resulted in the tragic loss of life.
Analysts, on the other hand, would likely (but not always) resist decentralization.
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The desegregated finale, "You Can't Stop the Beat, " is a blow-the-roof-off ensemble dance-fest that not even I could resist.
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