Two-thirds of all the people on benefits are in work, so perhaps ministers might consider resisting the temptation conjure-up their favoured imagery of hard-working people setting-out early in the morning while their neighbours on out-of-work benefits are still snugly tucked-up behind their closed blinds.
Bureaucrats should be reduced in number, but their pay temptation-thwartingly increased.
Tested by miserable in-laws, half-hearted sex, temptation, alcoholism, noisy neighbours and teenage children who are both all-knowing and wilfully blind.
Analyzing an idea is an important pre-step, but one of the biggest stumbling blocks people face is the temptation to over-analyze in an attempt to solve for every potential problem they might face, even if it only has a .03 percent likelihood of ever happening.
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So far, al-Sadr has resisted the temptation to end the Mehdi Army cease-fire, which, combined with the simultaneous increase in U.S. forces last year, had brought a sharp reduction in violence.
"The temptation is always there for the modern translator to look for strategies that make the text more accessible - and when that temptation comes, it doesn't hurt to turn for a moment - for some long moments indeed - to this extraordinary text, " he said.
After a big bowl of vegetable soup - the best yet - we resist the temptation of a Dracula dessert (fruit ice cream and jam in a pancake) and walk out through the Wolf Room into the dying day.
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And then there is the near constant temptation of king-size burgers, thick shakes and other high-calorie foods.
We should try to resist the temptation to over-regulate boards and leave them the freedom and responsibility to become more effective on their own initiative.
The most obvious problem is the growing temptation to over-reach.
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The temptation to over-issue, in certain financial emergencies, is so strong, that nothing is admissible which can tend, in however slight a degree, to weaken the barriers that restrain it.
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The Stade Francais player was - like a good number seven - unable to resist the temptation to clear out English players at a ruck and when the ball fell loose he was not there to control it.
Sometimes, we just need to keep on working, resisting the temptation of a beer-fueled nap.
If countries think they can get away with it, the temptation to flout world-trade rules will grow.
Wigan coach Michael Maguire resisted any temptation to include fit-again Amos Roberts, while leaving Mark Riddell on the bench.
With the temptation of a high-profit margin, many have found creative ways to try and smuggle the easily transported devices.
So also in matters of royal style: Alexander mixed his purple with plain white cloth, avoiding the temptation to go whole-hog despot.
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Mr. Akst, a member of Newsday's editorial board, is the author of "Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess, " now a Penguin paperback.
When volatility rears its head, it can be difficult to avoid the temptation to make short-term moves, but I encourage you to resist this urge.
The temptation is to self-diagnose, says Dr Guy Ratcliffe, head of the Medical Council on Alcohol - a group set up in the 1960s to tackle medics with addiction problems.
Rather I suspect he found himself sliding insidiously down that very slippery slope we can all find ourselves on when we first decide to give in to the temptation to surrender self-respect for self-interest, albeit perhaps in more mundane ways, in our own lives.
They have no desire to indulge in a further round of write-offs, which will weaken their balance-sheets, and thus have a temptation to extend loans and allow covenants (commitments by borrowers to meet certain financial conditions) to be renegotiated.
And exactly that sort of decision -- back to the earlier question -- is exactly what we have resisted the temptation to do.
However, the temptation of billions of non-taxpayer dollars being funneled from USPS coffers directly into the US Treasury, for the government to spend as it pleased, was too much to resist.
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Clattenburg then controversially resisted the temptation to award another penalty - instead booking Cahill for simulation after he went down under Benoit Assou-Ekotto's challenge in the box, although replays suggested there was contact.
Believe me when I say that I realize how difficult this is with an economy having slipped back into recession last year and the ever-present temptation to back away from commitments on defense spending.
Hull coach Richard Agar's plans were in tatters as early as the sixth minute when, having resisted the temptation to recall regular full-back Jordan Tansey after suspension, by keeping faith with Craig Hall, he was cruelly rewarded.
And that's a problem--the temptation to hook up a hot name with most any product under the sun, while profitable in the short run, only leads to a dilution of the athlete's brand name after a while, experts say.
He had little notion of his fatherland at the time because he had gone to Japanese schools all along, but I think that his awareness of being Korean, sprouted in his heart during his not-too-long life overseas, pushed away the music teacher's tenacious temptation.
The Treasury resisted the temptation to propose a single super-regulator along the lines of Britain's Financial Services Authority, leaving itself open to criticism that turf wars will persist.
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