The soldiers held their fire, but neither he nor Indonesia should be tempting fate right now.

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It can only be a short journey (if that's not tempting fate) to his own TV series.

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The Byrons know some people think they're crazy for what could be looked at as tempting fate.

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If there is any truth to this matter of a Facebook smartphone, it may be more likely that Facebook tempting fate with some sort of licensing scenario.

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Just as he was appointed prime minister, Mr de Villepin published a book about Napoleon's first 100 days, tempting fate by giving himself that same deadline to reform France.

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If you add the mystery of Clapham Common to the legacy of back-to-basics, you begin to think that the government is tempting fate by sticking to its plans to publish a consultative paper on the family next week.

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Fiat may have been tempting fate with its startling announcement Tuesday that it was taking a stake in Chrysler, less than two years after a previous trans-Atlantic partnership involving the American carmaker failed--still, the move looks both bold and shrewd, given the circumstances.

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But White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service's 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny.

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But purely from a domestic point of view, it seems beyond odd that Warner Bros. seems to keep tempting fate by attempting to open expensive summer movies during a period where audiences have rejected their pictures in favor of the summer kick-off film again and again.

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