Perhaps his best known comment came several years ago in Washington, when he was the Agriculture Minister and was resisting opening the Japanese beef market to imports.

Today, though, that strange sea coughed her up, and she could not resist opening her eyes.

She succeeds, but on the way back can't resist opening the box in the hope of benefitting from it herself, whereupon she falls into a torpid sleep.

I couldn't resist opening it.

The address deadoc quietly waited in my mailbox, and I could not resist opening it and the file with the photograph.

The next moment she was gone, and Southey could not resist opening the shutters just a crack to watch her stride away.

Besides, she had a childish love of surprise packages and could not resist opening his gifts.

With the e-mail still coming in, I couldn't resist opening early.

But Mr. Clinton couldn't resist opening his speech to young European leaders with a wink "for those of you know me personally."

Such was her greed that the wife could not resist opening the basket before she returned to the house.