Sentence examples for foolish strategy from inspiring English sources

Appeasement is a foolish strategy for dealing with Al Qaeda.

"It's a foolish strategy to up the ante when you don't know who you are attacking," says Jeffrey Carr of Taia Global, a security consultancy.

This foolish strategy drew red lines under Britain's continued membership of the single market and customs union, as well as denying any role for the European court of justice.

The World Crisis, his ostensible history of the first world war – which the former Conservative prime minister AJ Balfour called "Winston's brilliant Autobiography, disguised as a history of the universe" – is largely an indictment of the foolish strategy of the allied generals, not least Douglas Haig.

Selling call options against stock you own becomes a downright foolish strategy ahead of a major market move.

Kristol: But it's not a foolish strategy, and it may work.

You've got to be Mom and Dad, drill sergeant, detective, psychiatrist, and priest to a crew of opportunistic, mercenary hooligans, whom you must protect from the nefarious and often foolish strategies of owners.

That looks like a penny-wise, pound-foolish strategy.

This is a "penny-wise, pound-foolish" strategy.

It recommends the Foolish Four strategy, whose portfolio construction rules are constantly being tweaked by back-testing.

Libyan rebel fighters told Middle East Eye that many of them had their control orders lifted because the UK government had "no problem with people fighting against Gaddafi", in a move that seems reminiscent of the foolish US strategy of arming Osama bin Laden to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.