Sentence examples for To shortsighted from inspiring English sources

We hope the Obama administration is not simply reacting to shortsighted pressure.

"The Internet is too important to be left to shortsighted profit maximizers," Robert in San Francisco wrote.

Even the Manila area's notorious annual flooding is a result of the irresponsibility of those in charge, which has led to shortsighted urban planning, disregard for zoning laws and insufficient cooperation between the metropolis's 17 city halls.

I worry for the Chinese girls who are allowed to survive, and their chances of escaping rape, prostitution and slavery in a nation where they will be a most sought-after commodity, thanks to shortsighted bureaucrats.

While "Ecotopia" is a 1970s West Coast idea lab where a square can learn to "get it," Union Grove (a ringer for its creator's hometown, Saratoga Springs) is a contemporary East Coaster's torture chamber designed to sock it to shortsighted, petroleum-guzzling Americans.

Finally, the lifetime perspective helped to place into perspective the difficulties in financing investments in human capital and the risk of under-investment due to shortsighted behaviour by young people, which had been a long-time concern among economists19.

To be hungry all the time, to be mad for sex, to be shortsighted, to spend half your life on personal grooming, to be habit-bound, etc: these were all ways of being like a bird.

That seems to me to be shortsighted.

Warring about who are the chosen people of the gods or which ancient text was divinely inspired just seems to be incredibly shortsighted to me.

Companies need to have rules that's a given but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

This is no time to be shortsighted.