Sentence examples for Misguided project from inspiring English sources

Within two years Ford had abandoned the business and Edsel had become a watchword for a failed and misguided project.

Horror at the Conservative assault on incapacity benefit is tempered by the knowledge that Labour's similarly misguided project is already well under way.

Instead, Howes explained the British mission as "not engaged in some misguided project to create Berkshire in the Hindu Kush".

"Future generations will rejoice at this decision to put an end to such a misguided project," said Dan Hirsch, who heads the anti-nuclear organization Bridge the Gap and who guided the campaign against the Ward Valley dump.

For example, the suggestion that Foucault had a militant streak that has been much neglected in recent work is swiftly rejected as the misguided project of those who would impose a biographical constraint upon his work.

It has for years been peppered with misguided projects that failed poor people.

My family, and many others who have lived on Fire Island for generations, will have nothing to do with them and their misguided projects.

Even more troubling, Stuttgart 21 joins a growing list of misguided projects that are reducing Germany's 20th-century architectural history to a fairy tale version of the truth.

Egypt is full of grandiose and misguided projects in the desert, both ancient and modern, and TEDA is one of the strangest: a lost Chinese factory town in the Sahara, where Ozymandian dreams have been foiled by a simple failure to get women out of their homes.

Foreign aid - so shamefully reduced in the 1990s - was also a key part of the Cold War, and if much of it was poured into kleptocratic regimes like Mobutu's, or wasted on misguided projects, some at least helped produce flourishing economies in Europe and East Asia.

Aid sceptics, such as William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo, have made a powerful case against not only the waste and perverse impacts of many misguided projects, but also the patronising and disempowering assumptions of "northerners" seeking to shoulder a new "white man's burden".