Sentence examples for terrible notion from inspiring English sources

That's a wonderful idea if you're running a factory churning out widgets — but it's a terrible notion if you're trying to do anything else.

Illegalising abortion is a bad idea, but criminalising abortion for rape victims and outlawing IVF by granting full legal rights to just-conceived embryos is such a terrible notion that it's scarcely interesting to debate it.

While he was the only black leader that blended the charisma and militant rhetoric to ignite the passions of many blacks, the downside was that wrapping the mantle of leadership tightly around one man reinforced the terrible notion that blacks speak and think with one voice on racial problems.

It represented the apotheosis of disposable writing instruments -- the frankly terrible notion that not only could resources be tossed aside once even a portion of them was used up, but the idea that entire mechanisms could be disposed of wholesale as well.

"The confrontation with the terrible notion of being part of the cause of the death of 71 people led us into helpless initial reactions, to confused and confusing information, to lapses," said the transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger, in a visit today to a memorial service in Germany.

When it comes to leadership, we have this terrible notion that the CEO or boss has everything figured out.

And there has been a lot of tough talk from Republican governors about standing firm against the terrible, tyrannical notion of helping the uninsured.

It's terrible, this notion that we're always in the process of looking at ourselves doing something and not living".

The tin-eared technology industry calls these kinds of Web applications software-as-a-service, and despite its terrible name the notion has caught on.

Walter may have wanted us to believe — and may, at moments, have convinced himself — that he was a decent man driven by desperate circumstances to do terrible things, but that notion was either wishful thinking or tactical deceit.

The animals were so odd, and odd in such similar ways, as to suggest that species might be mutable, a terrible contradiction of the notion that God created everything simultaneously and perfectly.