Well, I can't make love to a bush!

Oohhoo L make the flirty eye at you

Three women together, be careful, it's adultery.

It's pretty late to start flirting with a discarded husband.

Easy now, easy now. Is this a courting or a fight?

Call it global courtship by an avid Chinese suitor.

That fella doesn't work and only knows how to flirt with women.

Of course, one can imagine other reasons for US supplication to the oil states.

Rather than flirting with illusions, governments should confront the hard choices ahead of them.

I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere tricks of the stage.

For their own sake and for that of Britain other UK media organizations should stop flirting with censorship and lead this campaign.

Occasionally Blair flirts with the idea of more European cooperation on foreign policy and defense.

The more Royal returns to the classics of the Socialist Party, and the more Sarkozy openly courts the extreme right, the more Bayrou s popularity rises.

Officials evidently decided that it is better to flirt with and control public passion than allow it to erupt on its own.

But then reality intruded. India s strategic rivals, China and Pakistan, began to court the Burmese generals.

True, we tend to align ourselves these days more with Venus than Mars, something for which the rest of the world should be deeply grateful.

Barack Obama, appealing to swelling protectionist sentiment among Americans, threatened during his presidential campaign to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement unilaterally.

Yet he spent all of last year assiduously courting the government in Beijing in the hope that he could make China a global partner on issues ranging from climate change to trade and financial regulation.

Chen s case has reignited a discussion about the pros and cons of exile that has been going on since the aftermath of the Tiannamen protests Will Chen lose support and influence if he leaves China? And will the government let him come back after flirting with the US?

America s dalliances with Islamist leaning political forces and governments have been guided by the notion that the cloak of Islam helps to protect the credibility of leaders who might otherwise be seen as foreign puppets.

The Chinese began toying with the idea of abandoning their peaceful rise in favor of what then President Hu Jintao defined at a July 2009 conference of Chinese diplomats as the democratization of international relations and global multipolarity.

Rather than flirting with illusions, governments should confront the hard choices ahead of them. Relying on alternative remedies is sometimes necessary, but they are not painless.

The political maneuvering has already started, with the unpopular incumbent prime minister, Gordon Brown, today s equivalent of Heath, bidding for the Liberal Democrats support by promising a constitutional reform that would give the party major advantages.

And, while such decrees have led to dictatorships, not democracies, in other countries undergoing political transition, none had a politicized judicial entity that played the role of spoiler in the democratization process.