Sentence examples for in a foolhardy from inspiring English sources

An investigation by The Times found that state and local governments are giving out $80 billion a year in tax breaks and other subsidies in a foolhardy, shortsighted race to attract companies.

This is just one horror too many in a foolhardy war started under false pretenses.

In a foolhardy obsession, the Bush administration continues to insist that a woman it used to portray a television reporter is actually a freelance journalist, not an actor.

In a foolhardy indulgence of partisan ideology, Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas is returning a $31.5 million federal grant that would have made his state a leader in technology development for the new federal health care law.

This was the bed he died in as well, in another home he had built in Redding, Conn., when he had recovered from the bankruptcy of 1894, brought on by his loss of perhaps $170,000 in a foolhardy investment in the Paige typesetting machine (one of which is on display in the recently built museum annex to the Hartford home).

We had reached the point in the schedule where the young Mahler, wishing to show off to his school chums, attempts to demonstrate that he is as at home in the water as they are by plunging into the chilly waters of the lake in a foolhardy attempt to swim across it.

A video of a meteorologist Eric Holthaus went viral when he demonstrated how quickly boiling water turned to snow in temperatures of -21 in Viroqua, Wisconsin A foolhardy chap from Minnesota decided to attempt this dangerous experiment of seeing what would happen if he urinated in -27C.

One thick-skinned show-off waves his foot in the flames for a foolhardy second.

Earnings dropped steadily from nearly $2 a share in 1987 to less than 50 cents a share in 1993, when a foolhardy promotion in Europe offering appliance buyers free transatlantic flights ballooned costs without doing much for sales.

In 1923, after a man fell nine stories from the Hotel Martinique, the New York City Council passed an ordinance preventing "street exhibitions of a foolhardy character in climbing the outer walks of buildings by human beings".

Dr Glass tests out her theory about how to disable the Skitters in a very foolhardy manner, but at least she's doing something other than standing around complaining.