Word: tempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proper to give your client legal advice when you have reason to believe that the knowledge will tempt him to commit perjury...
Even worse is the dilemma of whether to give sound legal advice that may well tempt the defendant to give false testimony. When the accused confides his guilt in the 1959 bestseller Anatomy of a Murder, for example, his lawyer replies: "If the facts are as you have stated them so far, you have no defense, and you will be most likely electrocuted. On the other hand, if you acted in a blind rage, there is a possibility of saving your life. Think it over, and we will talk about it tomorrow." Is this unethical? Even though perjury may result...
...concern" in Britain over American policy, but does not believe this concern will crystalize into outright opposition to American goals or tactics. He finds Wilson's support for the President's position "sincere" and thinks that neither the Prime Minister's increased prestige nor England's increased solvency will tempt the Labor front bench to break with Washington on Southeast Asian policy. Harlech discounts the possibility that a left-wing revolt in the Labor Party will soon force Wilson's hand. No more than thirty MP's would back such a revolt, Harlech estimates, and Wilson enjoys a majority...
...Party and the presidency to the Social ists - because the mere idea of two-party competition recalled the civil strife of the 1930s and the subsequent German takeover. But in recent months the two parties had frequently reached deadlock over the People's Party's at tempt to trim funds for state-owned enterprises. Then, after the March election, Socialist Boss Bruno Pittermann presented his party's demands for going along with coalition: continued control of the Interior Ministry and a promise that the coalition arrangement would not be altered for at least one full year...
...speculating that France might be willing to let Britain reapply for Market membership. But le grand Charles does not yet need English allies. He smoothly informed Erhard that the Common Market's first order of business was to "implement" the Luxembourg agreement-in other words: don't tempt France to walk out again...