Sentence examples for had been foolhardy from inspiring English sources

Executives, they said, had been foolhardy about their exposure to real estate, and their decisions to grow the firm's portfolio had more to do with executive compensation than expected profitability.

Mr McDowell's mother, Samantha McDowell, said she knew her son's actions had been "foolhardy," but claimed "Kris or any other person should not be allowed to get through the gap".

Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy.

Without air and sea superiority, an invasion of Britain would have been foolhardy.

(If he had been doubled and gone down several tricks, his bid would have been foolhardy).

For his predecessors in the Conservative hot seat, this move - echoing Barack Obama - would have been foolhardy.

He moved towards Mr Mason, which may have been foolhardy, and continued to give him a spray.

Shuanghui was not required to submit to a review, but that would have been foolhardy given the size of the deal and the money at stake.

"The thing I know for sure is that in both cases, it would have been foolhardy to continue the last few meters of the climb," Viesturs said.

On my most recent trip I wanted to go there right away, but a gale force south wind was howling up the lake and trying to paddle there would have been foolhardy, perhaps impossible.

But starting at a topflight mall like Roosevelt Field as a permanent tenant, with a lease specifying years rather than days, would have been foolhardy, as well as prohibitively expensive, she said.