Sentence examples for foolhardy idea from inspiring English sources

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said Osborne had been forced to "back down from the foolhardy idea of a pre-election firesale of RBS".

Back in the fall of 2008, when Sperone Westwater Gallery announced plans to construct an eight-story building of its own on the Bowery, it seemed a bold but possibly foolhardy idea.

It was her first megaconcert in New York City in several years, but if anyone had the foolhardy idea that she had lost some of her luster to people here, the crowd effortlessly banished it.

Again I returned to him with the ambitious, if not foolhardy idea of doing an opera on King Lear, a subject previously abandoned by Verdi and also considered by Britten but soon rejected.

7. True or false: When Giuliani blamed an underling named Jerome M. Hauer for the foolhardy idea of placing the city's emergency-management headquarters in the World Trade Center, he was confronted with a memo in which Hauer had argued against the site and in favor of a less visible target in Brooklyn.

My husband's strong response (and his assertion that if I embarked on this foolhardy idea, he would bear ABSOLUTELY no additional responsibility) made me realize that I had to truly reflect on whether I was bringing more chaos to the family and myself -- and if I was, why?

She also accepts the Republican position that negotiating with our enemies is a foolhardy and naïve idea (I know, Reagan was such a naïf when he negotiated with the Soviets).

Scientists dismissed the idea as foolhardy, predicting it would cause erosion of barrier islands.

Toyota and Nissan, which once thought his American auto plant ideas were foolhardy, soon followed.

In an age of machine-tooled, head-banging franchise fantasy fodder, it's good to find an unashamedly grandiloquent sci-fi flick with big ideas and foolhardy ambitions, even if only some of them are realised.

Mr. Kellogg's proposal to move City Opera to ground zero was a bold idea, some said foolhardy.