Sentence examples for shortsighted use from inspiring English sources

Assailed by critics as a shortsighted use of state resources and defended by supporters as necessary for public safety, New York's sprawling 70-facility, $2.4-billion-a-year 2.4-billion-a-year 2.4-billion-a-year 2.4-billion-a-year the uprison economy each year.

The person who took a chain saw to Luna made it all the easier to picture the desecration inherent in cutting 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldortreested uses.

I rebelled against the thought of being shortsighted by using my newfound condition as an excuse to submit messy and careless work.

You are the best person to decide whether these folks are your friends, but it's a little shortsighted to use "remembers birthdays" as the only criterion.

It is ethically problematic to gain consent while withholding information that matters to those giving their consent, and pragmatically, it seems shortsighted to use a consent process and public information policy that could undermine public trust in research.

Joseph A. Iwanski Red Bank To the Editor: I agree that it is shortsighted for New Jersey Republicans to use the proposal of a supermajority requirement for taxation during the campaign season.

Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President Bush, wrote in an opinion article in The Washington Post recently that the electoral math made it shortsighted for the Republicans to use immigration as a "weapon".

"Limiting beacons just to this particular use case is shortsighted since there is so much more to it," says Habermann.

It would be shortsighted to dismiss this increasingly used rallying cry.

How shortsighted people used to be! (How much more discerning we surely are…) No Marianne Moore?

In our panic over how badly we've used our resources, how shortsighted we've been, how deeply we've gone into debt, we could cut out our hearts.