Sentence examples for foolish policy from inspiring English sources
We think that's a foolish policy.
L. Paul Bremer underestimated the task, but did his best to make a foolish policy work.
And the most foolish policy is the so-called dual containment," a reference to the Clinton Administration's policy of attempting to isolate both Iraq and Iran.
The time is coming when judgments about television shows based on initial ratings may be a foolish policy – especially with more and more viewers using recording devices to watch shows long after they have been first broadcast.
Still, your brother-in-law did the right thing, first, in questioning the questionable charge (for condiments?) and then deferring when the manager insisted on a foolish policy that was within his rights.
Politicians instinctively blame their domestic opponents' wicked or foolish policies.
"Instead, I see democracies that fall short because voters get the foolish policies they ask for".
I use the phrase "Very Serious People" a lot; it seems to me to capture the way respectable opinion keeps demanding utterly foolish policies.
"Precisely because people put personal interests aside when they enter the political arena," Caplan says, "intellectual errors readily blossom into foolish policies".
In the last 20 years public schooling has been partly replaced by madrasas that preach extremism, the pursuit of nuclear weapons has isolated the government, and foolish policies have crippled the economy.
