The right, which briefly flirted with a proposal to lower taxes, has put forward a more flexible approach toward the European guidelines.

He briefly flirted with theosophy, but his soul soon revolted against it.

In retirement, he briefly flirted with pro-apartheid politics, at one point standing as a candidate for the ruling National Party, before moving into business.

Advertisers flirted with it briefly in a series of tests to discover how consumers truly felt about their razors, cigarettes and gasoline.

After leaving school he briefly flirted with becoming an accountant before moving to London to seek opportunities in the music industry.

Not the Dow Jones industrial average, which briefly flirted with the 10,000 mark yesterday.

He briefly flirted with running for Governor of New Mexico in 2010, but in the end declined to run.

He briefly flirted with Zionism while still at school and visited Palestine.

As a teen-ager, the only Jewish girl at her school, she briefly flirted with the idea of converting to Catholicism.

In the mid-1960s the Kremlin, seeing that the economic system was not working, briefly flirted with the idea of changing it.