Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share a common approach to security. Defense requires after all some agreed political purpose in the name of which it is conducted. The Atlantic Alliance must urgently develop a grand strategy for East-West problems and Third World relations applicable for the rest of this century. Otherwise, it will tempt constant pressures and crises...
China's yearning to tempt Taiwan back into the administrative fold. In addition, the public optimism was doubtless designed to reassure Hong Kong's notoriously jumpy financial markets. When negotiations were foundering last year, the Hang Seng stock market index dipped 25% in three months, down to 785.48; after last week's comments, the market index soared above 1000 for the first time since August...
...Soviet Union needs militarism and the threat of war primarily to keep at bay mounting pressures for reform inside its empire and to intimidate foreign countries, especially Europe. Although its forces are general for waging offensive nuclear war, the imponderables of such a war are too great to tempt precipitous moves...
...must concentrate our efforts on conducting a positive policy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, today more than ever. This means on the one hand that we must not tempt Moscow into regarding our defense capacity as something we are prepared to compromise. Thirty-eight years of experience have taught Berliners better than anyone else that the protection of our freedom rests above all on the American commitment. For this help and engagement, we are deeply grateful...
...their hypocritical actions, American schools today could produce moral schizophrenics. Basic psychology theorizes that mothers make their children schizophrenic by tempting a hungry child with milk, bringing the child closer, and then yanking him or her away from the mother's breast. Today schools tempt students with tantalizing promises of America's wonderful civil liberties, point bright eyes towards the Constitution, and then say, "No, that...