Sentence examples for a foolhardy venture from inspiring English sources

At first, it seems a foolhardy venture.

It was a foolhardy venture – Atlantic had engaged in flawed accounting and in 1990 underwent a £1bn collapse, dragging British and Commonwealth down with it.

Some 1,000 bottles of champagne later, no one cared.At the time, the launch of Virgin Atlantic was widely seen as a foolhardy venture by the young owner of a record label.

Freud ended by suggesting that the five-thousand-dollar advance that had been offered was a hundredth of the sum necessary to tempt him into such a foolhardy venture.

Never again would Congress and the American people permit a president to use the military on an unprovoked foolhardy venture to invade and occupy a foreign country under false pretenses while squandering the national treasure.

But, at other times, the President has portrayed a leap over the fiscal cliff as a dangerous and foolhardy venture.

In view of the bad feelings, addressing Knight in public about his good behavior seems a foolish and foolhardy venture.

Some foreign protestors accused the missionaries of being too ready to turn the other cheek - although others were irritated by their foolhardy ventures, which jeopardised foreign business.

Spring shows how foolhardy a venture this really was, and how risky for its time.

It was an exposed and dangerous part of the line and to venture close to the Redan, under the fire of the Russian infantry and artillery, was a foolhardy thing to do.

Or a foolhardy one.