While the Justice Department didn't indict Rosen, it carefully laid out the legal case for charging him as spy, a dangerous precedent that will undoubtedly tempt future prosecutors.
Another concern for Germany is that the ECB's new supervisory powers should be strictly separate from its existing monetary policy powers - so that, for example, the ECB will not be tempted in future to set interest rates too low in order to help out banks that are in trouble.
But the inquiry inspired a joke by Justice Antonin Scalia, who wondered whether people like Gómez might then be tempted, in future lawsuits, to "ask for the key to Fort Knox" or "ask for a unicorn" -- implying that no good-faith offer to settle a case will ever be acceptable to them, which in turn would force protracted class-action battles against hapless defendants. .
The ruling may signal that the court will be tempted in a future case to strike down this important safeguard.
Libya's new leaders may be tempted to skew future Libyan oil contracts and other economic rewards toward nations that helped most in the fight against the Qaddafi regime.
The greens have decided to boycott the new cabinet over policy disagreements, and might be tempted in the future by a shift of alliance to the left as they have successfully done locally in the city of Grenoble, winning the Mairie from the socialist candidate.
If major smartphone manufacturers, like Samsung or Huawei, cannot make decent profits from the Android ecosystem, they may be tempted in the future to look at alternative platforms such as Microsoft, Tizen or Firefox".
Still, that doesn't mean they won't be tempted in the future to move Black Friday earlier, Beahm said.
The collection of vast amounts of telephone metadata can reveal all sorts of highly private information about how we lead our lives, and misguided government officials might well be tempted in the future to use that database for impermissible, illegal and unconstitutional purposes.
Tempting though it is, borrowing against future revenues may not be the magic wand that Britain's city bosses are hoping for.
