Let's not succumb to the temptation to automate war.

1 million is a great temptation.

But the painting would always be there to tempt his weakness.

Of course, the Moldovan government balks at any attempt to lure away its citizens.

Israel may be tempted to regard itself as some kind of latter day Noah s ark, but it is not.

Banning parties does not have to mean silencing citizens who are tempted to vote for extremists.

The government might be tempted to rely on rapid inflation to try to reduce the real value of its debt.

Nor should the possibility be ruled out that Iran might be tempted to back its regional ambitions by supplying nuclear material to proxy terrorist groups.

Each country may also be tempted by protectionist measures, trying to preserve domestic jobs at the expense of imports.

But it could be tempted to impose some limits on the ECB and thus set Europe on a path into deeper crisis.

And, although Abbas might be tempted by cosmetic changes to the status quo, most Palestinians probably would reject them as fraudulent.

Now this course was just an introduction, and it's really sort of baby steps, and it's meant to entice you to look deeper, to take more modeling classes.

While this initiative was born in the United States, many countries are wondering how to jumpstart their own entrepreneurial sectors, and may be tempted to follow America s lead.

Readers in other countries may be tempted to react to this judgment with a dose of schadenfreude, finding more than a little satisfaction in America s difficulties.

Foreign investors might therefore fear that future US administrations will be tempted to reduce the real value of that debt by allowing a higher inflation rate.

If the problem of procedures and priorities is addressed, the fact that politicians are tempted to misuse scholarly analysis for their own ends will take care of itself.

The US will remain committed to de nuclearizing the peninsula, while the Korean government will be tempted to retain the North s nuclear capabilities.

But all kinds of people may be tempted to make harmful tradeoffs, whether for short term pleasure or for sex appeal over true value.

The notion of the responsibility to protect is welcome, but its parameters should be well defined to avoid the temptation to interfere in the internal affairs of States.

Eurozone leaders temptation to revert to earlier, discredited models of European relationships was bearable for a time, but it has now reached the limit of its tolerability.

Despite the fact that most leading East Asian policymakers were trained in American universities, none were seduced by Reagan s belief that government is the problem.

Even if the employment subsidy were offered only for, say, one year, firms would be tempted to use more labor during this time.

The government might be tempted to rely on rapid inflation to try to reduce the real value of its debt. Fear of that strategy could cause investors to demand even higher real interest rates.

In order to guarantee national security, the Strategy is categorical without giving in to the temptation of isolationism in admitting the strategic value of the example and the importance of doing one s homework first.

Because Japan is a rich country, some people may be tempted to view it as being in a position to undertake most of the effort to rebuild on its own.

The nation that had defined itself by its belief in freedom and reason for over a hundred years found itself seduced by the most barbaric of faith based bigotry.

The evidence falls into two categories. First, as the skeptics warned, when hordes of pundits are jostling for the limelight, many are tempted to claim that they know more than they do.

Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.

Its banks and financial institutions were not tempted to buy the mortgage supported securities and credit default swaps that ruined several Western financial institutions.

Little wonder, then, that French president Nicolas Sarkozy succumbed to the allure of protectionism during last year s election campaign, as did both presidential candidates in the United States.

While this initiative was born in the United States, many countries are wondering how to jumpstart their own entrepreneurial sectors, and may be tempted to follow America s lead. So why do I hope that they resist that temptation?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has even warned that, left unchallenged by Russia s nuclear deterrent, the US would be tempted to intervene militarily in more countries, as it did in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya.

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.

Like Greece, these countries now face sharp budget cuts. Like Greece, they can t devalue to encourage exports.

Egypt was ruled as a police state, and, with a gigantic and all pervasive security apparatus, the army might be tempted to assume the role of guardian of order and stability if democracy proves too messy.

The nation that had defined itself by its belief in freedom and reason for over a hundred years found itself seduced by the most barbaric of faith based bigotry. Even civilized, educated people signed on to it.

LJUBLJANA Throughout history, political leaders have supported existing communication technologies in order to defend the system in which they rule. Today, too, governments may be tempted to protect newspapers and public TV on the pretext of saving democracy as we know it.

Just as a ruthless Prime Minister Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein in the 1970 s, so the President Chirac of today is being lured into doing big business with another aggressive dictatorship.

In order to guarantee national security, the Strategy is categorical without giving in to the temptation of isolationism in admitting the strategic value of the example and the importance of doing one s homework first. Obama steers clear both of interventions for humanitarian purposes and of attempting to export democracy by force.

The current trend toward rose colored retrospection is a case in point. Faced with political, economic, geostrategic, and social uncertainty, policymakers have increasingly succumbed to the allure of nostalgia, promising a return to what they portray as the familiar and complete rules and practices of the past.

In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path export led growth.

First, as the skeptics warned, when hordes of pundits are jostling for the limelight, many are tempted to claim that they know more than they do. Boom and doom pundits are the most reliable over claimers.

Now that science s post WWII charisma has faded, politicians are taking the opposite tack. They are increasingly tempted to ignore scientific findings altogether, and make values the center of all public policy debates.

Hugo Chavez may not be financing Morales and Bolivia s other dissidents, but are Venezuela and Cuba really not tempted to meddle in the country where Che Guevara died leading a guerrilla war nearly 40 years ago?