("If you're able to get your teeth brushed and jammies on before this song is finished, we'll have time for three stories instead of two!") But dangling the phone as a tempting prize for every small act of cooperation is not a good long-term parenting approach.
The more journalists fail, the sweeter and more tempting the prize has become, like a burgeoning lottery jackpot.
The more journalists fail to identify the inventor, the sweeter and more tempting the prize has become.
The prize is tempting, however, because the Chinese beer market is growing at 6-8% a year.
That influx of cash, from both advertising and game revenues, means that tournaments can afford to offer big prize pools, tempting more youngsters into playing professionally.
While honour is conspicuous in society (e.g. the proliferation of prizes), it is tempting to think of shame as a medieval phenomenon, when the accused were placed in the town pillory or emblazoned with a scarlet letter.
But whereas local companies are already good at many footling jobs, the real prize would be tempting a turbine manufacturer to build a British factory.
So, it is important not to get too carried away, even when the potential prize is so tempting.
Right on cue it's the rookie Muirhead who claims the prize wicket of Gayle, tempting the West Indies linchpin into thumping one straight down the throat of Glenn Maxwell at long-on.
The Northern Alliance will be sorely tempted to claim the prize of Kabul, and the onus will be on Washington to minimize any Northern Alliance retribution, and to try to assemble -- as swiftly as possible -- a new form of government for territory now under the alliance's control.
