Sentence examples for disastrous thinking from inspiring English sources

It's this disastrous thinking that has reduced the band's concerts to bathetic exercises in 1990s nostalgia.

Ferguson establishes the disastrous thinking around such turning points as the decision not to stop the looting that followed the invasion; the de-Baathification of the professional classes of Iraq; and the disbanding of the Iraqi Army, which sent some half a million armed men into the streets.

Like other municipalities, the city has been living off disastrous short-term thinking and an absence of long-term investment.

By refusing to compromise and raising the prospect that doctors, nurses and nursery-school teachers might also lose their jobs, the Parti Québécois government managed to appear both intransigent and intolerant.Ms Marois's final disastrous calculation was thinking that the allegations of corruption, which brought down a Parti Libéral government in 2012, would still resonate with voters.

I was encountering these disastrous moments and thinking... about how people behave and treat strangers and also those close to them," Wishnow recalled.

The authorities have played on an understandable but disastrous confusion in progressive thinking.

But from a social perspective this kind of thinking is disastrous.

So how do we know what the truth is? Effective government depends on truth, without which we get shoddy thinking and disastrous action.

"From Jeb Bush to Scott Walker and from Rick Perry to Carly Fiorina, the GOP field brings nothing more to the table than failed records, disastrous positions, and backwards thinking that Iowans simply can't afford".

"When an entire field is headed in the wrong direction, when the routine application of mainstream thinking has produced disastrous results as I think was true of planning and urban policy in the 1950's, then it probably took someone from outside to point out the obvious," Alan Ehrenhalt wrote in 2001 in Planning, the magazine of the American Planning Association.

"I told him it would be disastrous policy if he is thinking of ending the welfare state overnight".