Sentence examples for by foolish from inspiring English sources

"Sandy is not going to be influenced by foolish issues," Bavasi said.

I'm no historian but the Great War was a disaster caused by foolish and selfish politicians.

The 1930s depression was a consequence of America's bank meltdown (made worse by foolish monetary and trade policy), not of the 1929 stockmarket crash.

ARNESSA M. GARRETT, Lafayette, La., posted on nytimes.com It doesn't matter what economic class you come from — there will be "accidents" of pregnancy by foolish young people.

Conservatives are right to be irritated by foolish liberal claims that America does not face any hard choices in fighting terrorism.

We take them for granted, oversimplify them or miss their key point and their insight is lost, replaced by foolish misunderstandings.

According to the contemporary chronicler Pierre de l'Estoile,[2] they made themselves "exceedingly odious, as much by their foolish and haughty demeanour, as by their effeminate and immodest dress, but above all by the immense gifts the king made to them".

He diagnoses the malady of radical discontent with confident ease: antiwar protesters are animated by their "cloying self-regard," and terrorists are driven to murder by their foolish commitment to "mirages" like "the ideal Islamic state".

By the time we read that, "I'm trapped in and by this foolish, failing wreck of a body and can't get loose or see beyond it", we have followed and understood every step in the escalation of difficulties and losses that warrants this protest.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

The Devils were aided by a foolish penalty.