Sentence examples for politically foolish from inspiring English sources

But a simple ban against Mr Livingstone would be politically foolish.

The president's advisers point out the obvious: it is politically foolish to waste time in New York.

Given those circumstances and the Tory commitment, it would be both wrong in principle and politically foolish for Labour not to back a referendum.

Mr Brown's hand was certainly behind many of Mr Byers's difficulties, from the refusal to reconsider the flawed public-private partnership for London Underground to the politically foolish initial decision to refuse compensation to Railtrack shareholders.

It was particularly striking that when Representative Rick A. Lazio, Mrs. Clinton's Republican opponent for the Senate, chose to skip today's parade, his decision was described even by Republicans as politically foolish.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said the government's refusal to take more than a few hundred refugees was morally wrong and "politically foolish" while Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said: "We must do more".

Paine lays out a vision of, in Davidson and Scheick's words, "an age of intellectual freedom, when reason would triumph over superstition, when the natural liberties of humanity would supplant priestcraft and kingship, which were both secondary effects of politically managed foolish legends and religious superstitions".

Delay would be foolish politically.

Will they ask for novels about young adults who are consumed by a sense of loss and bitterness that their politically correct and foolish parents allowed them during the entirety of their childhood to cross-dress, change their names, and take medication to prevent puberty, thus deforming their bodies?

I think that's politically and culturally very foolish.

Beyond the glib smokescreen of what Timothy Sandefur calls the "foolish, misguided, politically biased, intentionally misleading nonsense" written about substantive due process lies a serious jurisprudential concept that would have been perfectly familiar to the Framers of both the original Constitution and the Reconstruction Amendments -- and embraced by many of them.