Sentence examples for is a foolhardy from inspiring English sources

"This is a foolhardy place to put this high-pressure pipeline," Mr. Healy said.

It is a foolhardy path; the government will not pursue it".

Predicting the collapse of newsprint is a foolhardy game despite the inexorable, onward sweep of the digital revolution.

Still, the argument will be the same: A development of this size is a foolhardy undertaking in these economic times.

"Even Otmar Issing – one of the euro's founding fathers – warns that the latest plan for an EU-wide finance ministry with control over tax and spending is a foolhardy attempt to smuggle through political union, and breaches the basic fundamentals of modern democracy".

And so for 2009 we've made what we're already certain is a foolhardy vow: to read "2666," by Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a nine-hundred-page behemoth, acclaimed as one of the best novels of 2008 but as yet untouched on our shelf.

It was a foolhardy but successful shot.

Instead, T-shirts awaited, but it was a foolhardy purchase, and American Apparel is now trading around $2 a share with a market capitalization of about $214 million.

"I think for any university to fly in the face of an entire Legislature would be a foolhardy decision," Mr. Alexander said last week.

It was a foolhardy venture – Atlantic had engaged in flawed accounting and in 1990 underwent a £1bn collapse, dragging British and Commonwealth down with it.

Maybe it's a foolhardy attempt to recover lost youth, or a simple desire to share an experience with my son and daughter, who are also in the race, or even a sign of perverse addiction to pressured performance.