Sentence examples for shortsighted way from inspiring English sources

But as Professor Silbergeld notes, unsafe foods are cheap only in a shortsighted way.

This is a remarkably shortsighted way to nurture the traditions of Christian belief.

"It's just a shortsighted way to make a quick buck," she said.

"It's a shortsighted way of thinking," Cathy Keefe, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Travel Association, said of the cuts in Washington.

Not only will this not work — the sums involved are just too tiny to help their budgets — but it is a shortsighted way to provide for our common security.

Worse, even some whites now play the race card — recently, and ignobly, demonstrated by former President Bill Clinton — which threatens to become what Ford calls a "national patois," a dangerous and shortsighted way of crying wolf that has the long-term effect of undermining valid complaints from those who still suffer genuine racial injury.

The second presumes that the poor are afflicted by cultural or psychological dysfunctions that sometimes lead them to behave in shortsighted ways.

His goal is to make the implementation of his vision for the city as irreversible as possible; for it is more than likely, after he steps down in 2009, that politics in New York will return to their bad, old, shortsighted ways.

The instant gratification they offer makes us shortsighted in an unprecedented way.

But choosing to frame the debate in this way is shortsighted.

I do not hesitate to use such harsh language because any and all beliefs that cause good people to do bad things and to vote in evil ways -- ways that are shortsighted, self-centered and harmful to future generations -- are demonic.