He was unwise to boast of the superlative scale of BP's response as if to suggest the company was well prepared for the disaster.
"Tactically he was unwise," says Richard Dawkins, "because it appeared to sociologists and anthropologists that he was empire-building.
The officers' testimony of reputation would not be admissible in a trial of defendant unless he was unwise enough to open the subject himself by offering character testimony.
If you think he was unwise to criticise the media, then just cast your mind back over the last couple of months.
On the murder of Peter in 1369, several Castilian towns offered Ferdinand their allegiance, which he was unwise enough to accept.
It would be easy for any new chairman, if he is unwise, to try to tell fans that he inherited a club incapable of supporting itself.
And he passes final judgment, pronouncing William H. Gates III, the founder of Microsoft, at fault: "In his arrogance he lost whatever perspective he once had, and in his monomania he was unwise to the ways of the world".
Shrum concedes he was unwise to talk Kerrey into making the ad, but the real problem, he suggests, was that Kerrey was a flake, "a Walt Whitmanesque character who, in effect, could happily say to voters: 'Do I contradict myself?
On the other hand, he was unwise to include two Stokowski arrangements, including the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, a magnificent misappropriation that must forever belong to the original culprit.
We agree with the commissioner that Mr Ingram did not breach the code or the rules, although we do consider that — like the other members — he was unwise to agree to the meeting.
