Sentences with phrase «as myopic»

Personally, I'd describe communicating solely with the Law Department as myopic, the Law Department is only one part of the company.

Not sure if you're still as myopic as looking at a single branch, but if not, you're not much further than a single tree yet.

For anyone to insist that getting a shelter dog is automatically superior to getting a dog from any other source is just as myopic as trashing all shelter dogs.

I think the criticism of Chinese currency policy «over the last 5 years» is as myopic as any 5 year time - frame must be.

My «macro» vision, as myopic or stigmatic as it is, still makes gold a desirable holding for my portfolio.

An amusing supporting role as a myopic ballplayer in the William Bendix comedy Kill the Umpire (1950) led to D'Andrea being cast as Bendix's buddy Gillis on the TV sitcom The Life of Riley in 1953.

It has become fashionable in the age of county executive government to demean the old legislature as myopic, dysfunctional, parochial and ineffective.

Although time has come to establish as myopic, our thinking that youthfulness could rob these middle - aged kings of the capacity to provide appropriate leadership and exercise sound judgement.

Again we really can't be as myopic as we've been.

Not exact matches

The forum was convened to discuss how CEOs and investors can have constructive dialogue around creating long - term value that benefits customers, employees, shareholders, and society, as opposed to embracing a toxic short - termism defined by myopic decisions.

«Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as «Mr. Magoo,» a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling... Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

At the same time, there has been some reporting in the last few years that private companies are shying away from the high - pressure and myopic stock market, as this Business Insider article details.

You and Gopher are so myopic that you equate learning ABOUT religious beliefs of all kinds is the same as learning to believe.

I've attempted to read the story as a God of Wrath, but it got complicated quick because I had to pick and choose verses and have a rather myopic view of who God is.

Arizona Yankee, I hope everyone else in Arizona is not as as myopic, judgemental and closed - minded as you seem to be.

In a problem as complex as alcoholism this myopic view is particularly unfortunate.

Again, as with the patterns disappearing because they are jarred, a desire to overstate the case lies behind the myopic use of images.

She says it was simply hatched by myopic intellegentia and liberationists, as if they alone have the power to alter human behavior.

Well, seeing as this is an opinion piece, it's his right to be judgemental and myopic.

The author of this piece is being myopic in insisting that only his sect of islam... presumably sunni (as he was upset about the shia presence on the show and noted who he felt is the majority).

The article uses Stoke as a counter argument but its a myopic comparison as Stoke have nowhere near the quality that Arsenal do, it isn't a case of physicality alone.

His arrogance, naivety and myopic foresight made him to think it would still be business as usual.

Um a journo myself and I swear I would never stoop so low as to use such bias n myopic opportunism to attack the intelligence of a player who never set conditions for joining a certain team... Okay, let's take for example if he had joined his favourite Man U....

And to use it as a reason to hate on the FO, is shortsighted and myopic.

But Wondo is still a unifying influence in the squad, and targeting him as responsible for San Jose winless streak is myopic.

Focusing solely on the presidential campaigns is a bit myopic, and I'm sure most of these sites will branch out as more campaigns (House, Senate, governorships, etc.) heat up.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Time for Corbyn to wake up and go, We do nt need a protest group that looses we need a effective opposition as the world lurches to the extreme right ordinary people are paying the price for his myopic vision.

Keshi on his myopic way allowed these players to make the nucleus of his team, the result reflected the form of the team as a whole including Keshi.

«This is myopic, it's biased, it's selective listening,» Ms. Williams Willard, who works in real estate development and management as a senior project manager at the Hudson Companies, said as Ms. Godsil tried to quell the boos from the audience.

I bring these up to say that we shouldn't be so myopic as to think that because wheat has been hybridized, processed, and Roundup - sprayed to death, that there aren't other grains that have sustained most of the people of the earth for literally millions of years.

by Walter Chaw Oftentimes, as if in a freaky mescaline dream, I find myself defending in polite company Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, this story of an astonishingly ugly, balding little troll enlisted into the man - whore trade by myopic pimp T.J. (Eddie Griffin).

As Brenneman explains, the company's «myopic focus» on costs had led to perverse tactics: skimping on cabin air conditioning and flying more slowly to cut fuel use; removing high - revenue first - class seats to squeeze in more passengers; and eliminating corporate discounts even for the airline's top customers.

This is unfortunate and myopic, especially since these other costs constitute more than half — and often as much as three - fourths — of the total cost of attending college.

Over the years, our Facebook and Twitter feeds have become a hotbed for unfounded claims, unverified or false information, and mind - numbingly myopic arguments one could only very loosely refer to as «rhetoric».

The concept of technological pedagogical content knowledge (or technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge [TPACK]-RRB- provides a theoretical frame for doing just that (Mishra & Koehler, 2006)-- as long as TPACK is not used by teacher educators and researchers as a simple static and myopic evaluative lens that fails to pay attention to the range of contexts that teachers work within.

Secondly: Hess himself has earned a reputation for being racially myopic, especially in his dismissal of focusing on achievement gaps in transforming public education as well as his statement that expanding school choice rewards the supposed irresponsibility of poor and minority families.

That last point is significant as more people become aware of just how myopic it is to accuse charter schools of segregation when they serve only 5 percent of the nation's students while ignoring the systemic and indefensible politics of segregation that exist in traditional school districts.

In this context, it should come as no surprise that a decade of No Child Left Behind — with its myopic emphasis on reading and math — has led to the introduction of the Common Core Standards — with their broader emphasis on critical thinking.

We have a menu of options as we present lessons, not one myopic route.

When you look at the visual provided here, it's easy to see that our myopic focus on student outcomes as the basis of accountability for No Child Left Behind set us on a tragic course destined to sink the U.S. education system.

Because the reformers are one way or another upsetting the apple cart, whether they are independent charter schools or large CMO / EMOs, homeschoolers, or a burgeoning private school industry (in some localities), the monopoly sees the competition through its monocular and myopic viewpoint as another singular entity bent on dominating the current monopoly.

New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.

The problems with just this 25 % policy, however, and as he writes, include the following: the «policy reflects the view that teachers are inadequately motivated to do their jobs;» this implies, without any evidence that only an arbitrarily set «25 % of a district's teachers deserve a raise;» this facilitates a «culture of competition [that] kills the collaboration that is integral to effective education;» «[t] he idea that a single teacher's influence can be isolated [using VAMs] is absurd;» and just in general that this policy «reflects a myopic approach to reform.»

The behavioral economics concept of myopic loss aversion suggests that accelerating loan subsidies to the time of enrollment would increase their effectiveness as an incentive to enroll.

Underlying the Big Data approach is a myopic focus on standardized test scores as the sole measure of student learning.

From Alexandras: I pitied him as a character because he would never learn, never grow and never be able to see how myopic his life was.

I feel for you, I do, because you will go through life as you, I mean, I have to be black, I KNOW what I'm in for, but you have to go trough life fearing what you don't know and fighting change, hating and combating every objective truth which doesn't align with your myopic view point.

One could reasonably argue there were TOO MANY publishers at the Bookfair when you think about the relatively small markets they cater to for literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as the often myopic focus on a single magazine, ignoring or discounting other ways they could serve their community while ensuring a sustainable future.

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