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When writing and performing with the group, she’ll sometimes turn her nationally delicate voice into a snarl or a howl — resisting any temptation to ever let it all get too sweet.

“The temptation is to make the crew laugh,” they said.

"We are empowering the State to kill," he warned, adding there would be a "temptation" for families to coerce dying relatives to take up assisted dying in order to pass on money and assets.

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On the one hand, there is a temptation within the SNP to circle the wagons around Hepburn.

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“The place was full of temptations of every kind, and it was hard to say no,” Borg writes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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