"It is possible—I have often felt so much weakness in myself that I can conceive even a man of honorable disposition, such as I have always believed Lydgate to be, succumbing to such a temptation as that of accepting money which was offered more or less indirectly as a bribe to insure his silence about scandalous facts long gone by.
But companies that can afford to hire awesome staff for less awesome tasks tend to stay ahead of the pack — provided they can stop useful underworkers succumbing to unproductive ennui.
For succumbing to temptation and eating the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, God banished them from Eden, and they and their descendants were forced to live lives of hardship.
And that sometimes means owls succumbing to early nights.
Kim was so shaken by the spread of the soaps that he ordered the execution of 10 Workers' Party officials accused of succumbing to the shows' allure, according to lawmakers who had been briefed on the matter at a parliamentary hearing.