Sentence examples for myopic from inspiring English sources

Once again, while myopic politicians preach tired sermons pioneered by President Richard Nixon about defeating the scourge of narcotics, there is a safer and more sensible alternative if only they displayed a little courage.

Jedediah Jenkins, director of idea development for Invisible Children, called the criticisms "myopic" and said the film represented a "tipping point" in that it "got young people to care about an issue on the other side of the planet that doesn't affect them".

For Ibrahim, the government's response was another myopic and selfish attempt to curry favour with religious right-wing elements, which represent a growing electorate base for the ruling party, and another "deliberate attempt to provoke religious tensions to give a pretext to clamp down on civil liberties and justify the continuation of the same old race-based policies of the past".

The Russian people, who are moving on, who embrace foreigners and their country's successes, don't deserve to bear the brunt of the persistence of such a myopic view.

We muddled our priorities with the tuition fees cut … our priority must be early years And it is my kids, and your kids, who will suffer from this tedious, myopic and transactional schools policy.

Shortly before John Fowles's The Collector appeared, Enid Blyton deployed a couple of collectors in her 1957 Famous Five adventure, Five Go to Billycock Hill: her depiction of two myopic butterfly-lovers is slyly homophobic.

Unfortunately, chasing that myopic positivity lets bad people off the hook.

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Yet, swayed by Afghanistan, the British government has spared the army the worst of the cuts while sacrificing its fixed-wing maritime air power.Events in north Africa, and the possibility that instability might spread to the oil-producing Gulf, have already made the SDSR look myopic and out of date.

"ABOUT 90% of the Chinese population is myopic," points out Andrea Guerra, chief executive of Luxottica, the world's biggest maker of shades and prescription glasses.

The army stands squarely behind Mr Abhisit, who took power 15 months ago by a parliamentary fix and remains the hero of Bangkok's myopic monied classes, as well as the yellow-shirted protesters who support the status quo.