Sentence examples for shortsighted move from inspiring English sources

So this was a terrible, shortsighted move from New Jersey's point of view.

"Mr. O'Brien made a big stir and got the legislature to repeal the law, but it was a shortsighted move".

In a shortsighted move, funds have been cut for Department of Defense scientists to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

In a shortsighted move, Kerensky allowed the Bolshevik military organization to rearm, thus acquiring the weapons they would use to oust him two months later.

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a Republican, called it a "stunning, shortsighted move," adding that it was "the latest in a destructive pattern of hostility" displayed by the Obama administration toward the energy industry in the state.

Seems a kind of shortsighted move, but maybe it's just all part of their master plan.

Shortsighted moves in down periods account for much of the deficit, Mr. Harvey said.

Mr. Netanyahu's punitive, shortsighted moves threaten to crush the Palestinian Authority, and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, who has recognized Israel's right to exist and represents the only credible peace negotiator.

Beyond the impossibly shortsighted moves geopolitically, the Kremlin has totally misjudged market damage in the age of globalization and economic contagion.

It could be that just as victims of tragedy find it hard to accept that their suffering is random and purposeless, voters find it intolerable that so many of the petty, shortsighted moves by elected officials have no greater meaning than small-time expediency".

But Michael E. McMahon, a Democratic councilman from Staten Island who is chairman of the City Council's Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Committee, called the move shortsighted.