Sentence examples for to foolishness from inspiring English sources

Chairmen, chief executives and board members will always be prey to foolishness and greed.

He could have said with John Clare, "I love wild things almost to foolishness".

As practiced by the jaundiced Holmes, restraint was often a shrug of the shoulders: lawmakers, in his view, were predisposed to foolishness, and the Constitution entitled them, in most cases, to be fools.

Canada's government has just abolished the registration of nonrestricted long guns, including paramilitary weapons like the Ruger-Mini-14 and a Steyr sniper rifle, proving that when it comes to foolishness about guns the red-state U.S. does not have a monopoly.

A few days later, the reporter — his hand voluminously bandaged — showed up at Mailer's house in Brooklyn to interview the author, and, upon seeing him, Mailer said, "Didja punch a door?" Mailer has always understood the need for pride in men; he has understood it as he's understood it in himself — as intimately connected to foolishness and vainglory.

In the sort of loud exchange that has been typical in this trial, Judge Hickey shouted angrily at the lawyers, "I will not listen to foolishness," then allowed three more hours of incomprehensible testimony from an expert parliamentarian on Robert's Rules of Order.

"If I am to leave my life's work and my family's financial health in the hands of others, I feel safe in the knowledge that the chairman at the head of the table has an incisive knowledge of the risks in our business, and is unlikely to allow foolishness to take place".

To save you from becoming cruel and succumbing to foolishnesses, I am treating you roughly, because overly solicitous treatment produces people free from conscience and care".

In particular, to cast Gould as opposed to some 'ultra-Darwinian' orthodoxy, absent the proper context, has the potential to lead to such foolishness as that found on Creationist websites that claim Gould as a closeted champion of their cause.

To add to the foolishness, Slovakia's state television (supposedly coincidentally) broadcast an alarmist documentary about Scientology three days before the vote.Grigorij Mesežnikov, president of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava, called the election campaign "unbefitting a democracy".

The best approach is not just figuring out the best atmosphere to encourage noncomformists to risk foolishness; it is also about avoiding another kind of foolishness the kind that comes from relying too heavily on the wisdom of crowds.