Sentence examples for short-term whims from inspiring English sources

Brendan Barber, the TUC general secretary, said: "If you think nuclear power has an important role in decarbonising the economy, as ministers say, then you have to make sure that these kinds of very long-term investments occur.You cannot let your strategy for dealing with climate change – our biggest long-term challenge – be subject to the short-term whims of the market".

His latest effort will merely reinforce the impression that British tax policy is driven by short-term political whims.

Compared to its generation, Google waited an extraordinarily long period of time to go public and did so very much on its own terms, so that it could protect its ability to be nimble and above the whims of activist, short-term hedge funds and traders.

This investment in the distribution system has become a foundation of the firm's marketing, not a whim or reaction to short-term performance mandates.

But Daldry's announcement is a sign that a growing number of gay men see their sexuality as a short-term option, forever subject to alteration according to whim, age or social position.

That meant Dell would be beholden to the whims of public markets, perhaps laden with short-term pessimism over the company's urgent need to find a transition.

It was short-term.

We're short-term.

Short-term interests converge.

Style, short-term shaping, long-term architecture.

Short-term rates actually fell.