Sentence examples for costly advice from inspiring English sources

Jeffrey R. Immelt, the General Electric chief executive, told The New York Times in December that the consulting firm offered costly advice in 2007, when it played down the risks of a financial crisis.

Peter Ueberroth's exhortation to his "dumb" owners in 1985 ended up as very costly advice.

The cost is mounting: an FOI by Fiona Mactaggart MP found the hospitals have already spent £1.67m on legal advice from costly competition lawyers.

The answer is probably: lots of expensive and time consuming legal battles (assuming the homeless person can get legal advice); a costly recruitment drive to expand council homeless units in order to investigate hundreds of out-of-borough "suitability" offers and manage the subsequent wave of objections; and much grief for homeless families.

External strategy advice can be costly — and wrong.

Independent financial advice can be costly but may be worth paying if you aren't confident.

The adviser simply moved to a new firm, raising concerns about the apparent ease with which people can continue to offer advice after making costly blunders.

But Parnon and others say that the main advantage of a virtual lawyer system is to avoid costly litigation by spreading legal advice to workers in the ranks.

The Moon card covering the Six of Pentacles, and the Five of Swords would indicate that an attorney, manager or financial advisor provided bad advice that was costly.

took to the Senate floor to lambaste the former vice president for doling out advice about a costly conflict that many believe was a misguided effort engineered by the Bush administration.

We are not yet Europe, which makes every dismissal costly, but we can take advice from Laurence Parisot, the head of France's largest employers' union, Movement of the French Enterprises, who said, "We will hire more people if it's made easier to fire them".