To national security hawks, though, the United States still needs a robust nuclear force to ensure no other power is tempted to challenge it.
They "went on, almost defiantly, tempting fate, challenging it, unshakable in their conviction that though the whole world might wilt and die at their feet, they themselves would remain inviolate".
People close to Mr. Schumer are particularly concerned because Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pataki may still be tempted to challenge the senator, given the large role that New York will play in the president's re-election strategy.
He had so much success, including consensus all-American honors as a sophomore, that he was briefly tempted to challenge the N.F.L.'s minimum-age requirement, which states that a player must be three years removed from high school to play.
I'm tempted to challenge him to do it without the crash pad, though there's the possibility he'd win the bet by disabling me with a dinner plate to the throat, hurling me off the balcony with him, and using my body as a human cushion, like he did a few years ago in the movie Safe.
Turning On the Charm Both Mr. Diller and Ms. Brown say they turned down Mr. Harman at first, but then Ms. Brown says she weakened, tempted by the challenge.
That slip, if confirmed, would a strengthen Mr. Milosevic's allies and could eventually tempt Belgrade to challenge Mr. Djukanovic's hold on power.
England finally took a deserved lead when Ashley Young tempted a rash challenge from Peter Pekarik to win a penalty which Kieran Richardson nonchalantly converted.
Some say that Wall Street itself might provide that leadership, especially now that so many talented financiers might be on the market themselves, or tempted by the challenge presented at the exchange.
