Sentence examples for misguided project from inspiring English sources

Horror at the Conservative assault on incapacity benefit is tempered by the knowledge that Labour's similarly misguided project is already well under way.

Instead, Howes explained the British mission as "not engaged in some misguided project to create Berkshire in the Hindu Kush".

For example, the suggestion that Foucault had a militant streak that has been much neglected in recent work is swiftly rejected as the misguided project of those who would impose a biographical constraint upon his work.

It has for years been peppered with misguided projects that failed poor people.

Even more troubling, Stuttgart 21 joins a growing list of misguided projects that are reducing Germany's 20th-century architectural history to a fairy tale version of the truth.

Egypt is full of grandiose and misguided projects in the desert, both ancient and modern, and TEDA is one of the strangest: a lost Chinese factory town in the Sahara, where Ozymandian dreams have been foiled by a simple failure to get women out of their homes.

Foreign aid - so shamefully reduced in the 1990s - was also a key part of the Cold War, and if much of it was poured into kleptocratic regimes like Mobutu's, or wasted on misguided projects, some at least helped produce flourishing economies in Europe and East Asia.

Aid sceptics, such as William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo, have made a powerful case against not only the waste and perverse impacts of many misguided projects, but also the patronising and disempowering assumptions of "northerners" seeking to shoulder a new "white man's burden".

The YouTube description of "Better Homeless Signs" calls the clip part of a "series of parody Kickstarter videos where budding entrepreneurs make fundraising appeals for wildly misguided projects".

In essence, the Corps proposed to spend this money helping undo much of the damage that its own legacy of misguided projects had inflicted.

In an impassioned online appeal, Chouinard wrote that "if these misguided projects aren't stopped, the ecological damage and impact on local communities will be devastating". .