Sentence examples for ill-advised effort from inspiring English sources

The pressure to move Wired toward an initial public offering drove an ill-advised effort for bigness at all costs.

They say that he has sought to change the business models of the industry's largest players in an ill-advised effort to help the telephone companies, which have begun to challenge the cable industry by offering their own paid television service.

The enormous misstep may have been just one more ill-advised effort to diversify, but the explosion of pornography on the Internet in ever more customized ways may accomplish what the Meese commission on pornography, the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Andrea Dworkin, the antipornography activist, failed to do: the shuttering of Penthouse.

But two mainstays of the team over the past six years or so, Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott, have gone, the latter after an ill-advised effort to convert him to an opener, and no one yet has staked a strong claim as permanent replacement.

There's still time for Speaker Boehner to reconsider his ill-advised effort.

Ryan's ill-advised effort to reach out to Battaglia and improve conditions for the men results in the nickname "Von Ryan".

Some ill-advised efforts at British accents present further distractions.

Talent agents argue that stars are not to blame, faulting script concepts that fail to translate to the screen, poor release dates, awkward marketing or ill-advised efforts by popular actors to stretch in new directions.

She describes both the company's woefully inadequate anti-bullying protocols for young subscribers — Facebook's current business model seems built on "habituating kids to giving up their privacy" — and their ill-advised efforts to bully her once they got a whiff of her criticisms.

Soccer's expanding popularity is one of globalization's more potent manifestations -- and one of the few not driven by American culture -- as evidenced by the government of soccer-crazed Thailand's ill-advised efforts to acquire an interest in the English Premier League's venerable Liverpool team.

With his ill-advised efforts to get tougher on terrorists, President Trump is undermining that progress.