51.   Among the well-to-do classes of centuries past, many failed to resist worldly temptation, turning into cruel and callous rulers and indulging in empty, fast living.

52.   And I have resisted the temptation to embellish on a glorious past when I never lived one.

53.   And they have to resist the temptation to be everywhere at once.

54.   And when Apple folded the Newton experiment last year, I resisted the temptation to say I told you so and forgot about PDAs all together.

55.   And would hardline Russian officials, bitter about their humiliation on the battlefield, resist the temptation to strike back?

56.   And, all the while, resisting the temptation to look ahead.

57.   And women have got to develop some heart and some sound analysis so they can resist the temptation of buying peace with their man with self-sacrifice and posturing.

58.   Another shrewd thing Cebrowski has done is resist the temptation to throw himself onto the immense grindstone of the annual budget process, which has pulped generations of reformers.

59.   Any such landslide in prices was likely to test government commitments to free-market dynamics and resist the temptation to intervene to protect asset values.