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In addition to the risk that a few would be tempted by extremism is the certainty that, if we fail to meet our commitment to universal education, millions of children would be relegated to a life of poverty and struggle, with their hopes, dreams, and potential squandered, undermining the country’s development potential.
In the first month of the war on terrorism, some Islamic political parties were drawn into anti-American protests and even Vice President Hamzah Haz (chairman of one of Indonesia's strongest Islamic parties) was tempted to ride this tiger for a time.
And yet he may now be tempted to appoint new members to the Fed Board who are even more dovish, and less independent, than Yellen, in order to boost credit to the private sector.
One is tempted to assume that only people who believe in the magical power of images would wish to erase them.
At this remarkable point in Europe's history, some in Russia have been tempted to revive the old policy of fuelling transatlantic divisions.
Hollywood studio bosses with an eye on China’s massive domestic market will be tempted to kowtow to the government’s “creative” requests when it comes to scripts, casting decisions, and so forth.
The interests of the Fed in the application of technology to production are so distant from the preoccupations of the European Central Bank that one is tempted to view the two institutions as living on different planets.
Researchers are tempted by persuasive results that can attract the interest of policymakers, who are tempted by a selective reading of the evidence that can provide them with ammunition in domestic and international debate.
President Bush may be tempted to believe that Russia's current economic success is purely the result of high world oil prices.
And yet one is tempted to ask the question: would a different political approach have avoided regime collapse?
The Kenyan authorities, eager to please the US, were tempted to hand over Kenyan citizens on the slightest encouragement.
By opting for cooperation, China can avoid a situation in which Japan is tempted to play an increasingly independent security role, which in some respects it is already beginning to do – indeed, in some significant respects.
Even if the foreign company does not start squeezing out its minority owners, its government will be tempted to expropriate foreign owners through windfall taxes (if the government is sophisticated) or nationalization (if it is unsophisticated) – especially if its voters feel, with the benefit of hindsight and populist incitement, that the assets were sold too cheaply.
Faced with an invasion of Russian state-minded companies, EU member states are tempted to ring-fence certain sectors of their economies (such as domestic energy markets), threatening the liberal economic order that is at the centre of the European project.
The Kremlin is tempted to recreate a police state in order to prevent foreign interference in its domestic politics.
And, politically, there is a real danger that citizens will stop trusting institutions, both national and European, and be tempted by populist appeals, as in the past.
And in the April 10 release of the Nuclear Posture Review, Obama’s administration warned nuclear-armed states and others tempted to violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that they would remain nuclear targets.
When tempted by self-interest, aspiring leaders should emulate figures known for their honesty and truth-telling, such as Warren Buffett or Winston Churchill.
Policymakers would be tempted to resort to helicopter money whenever growth was not as strong as they would like, instead of implementing difficult structural reforms that address the underlying causes of weak economic performance.
In the real world nowadays, people are increasingly tempted to erect walls and close themselves off from “others.”
Indeed, he defeated an incumbent who really wanted to keep his job, and who might reasonably have been tempted to follow the lead of other African leaders defeated in a popular vote by simply refusing to accept the result.
Mexico has seemed especially tempted to return to its Cuban complicity of the past.
Even though the dollar is already overvalued, it could move into a self-reinforcing upward spiral, as it did in the early 1980s and late 1990s, owing to dollar debts accumulated in emerging markets by governments and companies tempted by near-zero interest rates.
Constitutional PoliticsA cynic might be tempted to say that when politicians run out of ideas, they turn to making or changing the constitution.
Ambitious but thwarted presidents are easily tempted to take unconstitutional measures; after all, they reason, the people elected them directly.
Indeed, some current EU members, such as Hungary, where Euroskepticism and illiberal sentiment are already widespread, might be tempted to follow Putin down the path toward authoritarian rule.
But the cause of nuclear non-proliferation is now in deep trouble, as countries are once again tempted to acquire the means of oblivion.
Would I have been tempted by arguments such as: “We are trying to develop our economy, and you can really help us with your knowledge?”
Of course, Poland is not the only country that has been tempted to edit history in ways that play down complicity in wartime crimes perpetrated against Jews and others.
Future historians may well be tempted to say of the South China Sea question what Lord Palmerston famously did of Schleswig-Holstein in the nineteenth century: “Only three people have ever understood it.
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