Tony Blair sent a senior foreign-policy adviser, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, to Syria to find out whether President Bashar Assad could be tempted into playing a more pro-Western role.
But if the Bank of Japan takes a back seat in future, other buyers will have to be tempted into the market by means of higher interest rates.
Aside from being ineffective - friends cannot read private messages - it encourages an erosion of trust and could lead children to be tempted into using a "secret" account, away from prying eyes.
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You may be tempted to dip into savings, sell assets or go deeper into debt to try to save your home.
While aggressive investors may be tempted to dive headlong into the homebuilders at this time, caution is still warranted here.
Rather than talk with a high-pressure insurance agent, you might be tempted to simply start plugging numbers into one of the many life insurance needs calculators out there on the Internet.
If I believed this to be an accurate analysis, I would be tempted to move every dollar I have into high yield bonds and borrow on a home equity line to buy even more.
On the flip side, things like delayed bonuses and lucrative retirement or retrenchment packages serve as "golden handcuffs, " tying employees into a company when they might otherwise be tempted to seek new opportunities elsewhere.
If the suit is going to drag Congress into another political quagmire, why, you might be tempted to ask, do it at all, and why now?
Wouldn't investment managers be tempted to favor their own funds over competitors' or to steer participants into higher-cost funds?
Inevitably, many people will be tempted to blame the crash on the transfer of Britain's railways into private hands, which began in 1995.
The app can run in the background, and your lock screen wallpaper even turns into the current navigation step, so you won't be tempted to touch your phone and unlock the screen.
Faced with the possibility of spending all their money on health care and leaving nothing for their heirs, they might be tempted to transfer everything they own to their heirs at once, qualify for Medicaid, and move into a nursing home.
The point is that, for those who insist on putting columnists in a blue box or a red one -- a harmful trend that, by the way, too many of my colleagues play into by offering endorsements and becoming partisan cheerleaders -- I can see how some would be tempted to place me on the right side of the aisle.
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