Sentence examples for it would be a folly from inspiring English sources

When the possibility of withdrawing by the U.S. became an option, or when the Israeli Prime Minister called for "fix it or nix it," one of them said, in Hebrew — in Hebrew things always sound so much better — "it would be a folly" to do so.

It would be a folly for the United States to turn its back on trade.

It would be a folly for women to make a fuss about this apparent injustice; the advantage is in being on the right!

Given that international commentators such as Nobel prizewinner Paul Krugman have singled out Gordon Brown for praise, it would be a folly to try to sustain this narrative at the same time as dropping the principal architect.

However, campaigners said it would be a folly to continue with the project, which envisages firms paying to extract patient information that would be scrubbed of some personal identifiers but not enough to make the information completely anonymous – a process known as "pseudonymisation".

"It would be a folly to try and write better things than our best at this age," nodded Idle.

Without it, he said recently, "the piece would be a folly".

If it were architecture The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre would be a folly, a fabrique.

To do otherwise would be a folly of historic proportions.

The figures have written a letter arguing it would be an "irresponsible" folly to downgrade or end the system.

For Mervyn to make such a suggestion now would probably be NPC as it would be a tacit recognition that GBs follies got us in the mess in the first place.