Sentence examples for Imprudent actions from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, some boaters' imprudent actions may actually be the result of the Coast Guard's life-saving proficiency.

Even if the Avengers' imprudent actions cost several dozen people their lives, they prevented a medical disaster that could have killed thousands if not millions.

The caution inherent in this internal process is appropriate to guard against mistaken or imprudent actions when targeting individuals who have the power to wreak havoc on America while hiding among civilians in faraway places.

In 1982, Robert Abrams, the state attorney general, used the petition process to win a $33.7 million refund from Con Ed after the Public Service Commission ruled that a 59-day shutdown of Indian Point 2 caused by a different kind of leak was caused by "imprudent actions".

Tom Miller Oakland, Calif., April 23 , 2009• To the Editor: "My Tortured Decision," by Ali Soufan (Op-Ed, April 23), sheds welcome light and credibility on one more instance where the previous administration ignored fundamental American principles and proven bodies of knowledge to justify imprudent actions detrimental to our country's best interests (going to war with Iraq being another instance).

He asked me assure you that despite some people's ideas of Polish rashness, the Polish Government were determined not to be scared by any psychological terrorism into imprudent action.

Colin Powell, like many military men shaped by the experience of the Vietnam War, was disinclined to send American troops into battle, and he cautioned the National Security Council against imprudent action.

"The knowledge that the national grid had been unstable for 48 hours leading up to the collapse invites the suspicion that there was some imprudent action taken by the government operators," Aguilar said.

Contrary to Inc.'s arguments, the awareness of this risk did not impel either Lazard or the International outside directors to take imprudent or hasty action.

In their view, the need to address near-term economic woes far outweighs the longer-run implications of what might be described as an imprudent course of action.

Onlookers might read their actions as imprudent, but that couldn't be further from the fact.