Sentence examples for thought it foolish from inspiring English sources

As a former Connecticut attorney general, he thought it foolish to foreclose legal options.

I thought it foolish for Abbas to go to the U.N., but I thought it irresponsible for America's Congress to cut off aid to the Palestinians for doing so — when we've never retaliated for the even more obstructionist building of settlements by Israel.

He thought it foolish political correctness, for instance, to allow a woman serving as a government minister to be referred to as "la ministre" rather than "le ministre"; the word "ministre" was male, he said, no matter who held the post.

He always thought it foolish to try to stint on the heart of the publication, the editorial department.

"I don't want to be apocalyptic, on the basis of what may turn out to be short-term problems, but I think it foolish to be too confident on that score.

Wall Street obviously did not think it foolish to pay HRC nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

I do think it foolish, with ample examples of these very private pictures and videos going out en mass, to think anyone is safe.

"We thought it was foolish not to do anything," Mr. Fusco said.

Accorsi said he thought it was foolish to part with a draft pick just to move a few places.

Even after that demonstration, Christie's team removed a split-screen view for email showing the sender and the message because Jobs thought it was "foolish" - though the idea was revived for email on the larger-screen iPad.

I thought it was a foolish statement.