Sentences with phrase «by shortsighted»

The only drawback is seen by the shortsighted who note that it costs now rather than deferring the costs to our grandkids.

Remember, children without books translates to a world run by the shortsighted and the glib and the apathetic and the narrow - minded.

It's painful to hear that librarian creativity is being limited by shortsighted policies.

They were also created by shortsighted ancestors who believed that human personality was the root of a «warring world,» instead of «political ideology, religious belief, race or nationalism,» as Ms. Roth puts it in the first book.

While I am unable to end the furlough, I will act in solidarity with my fellow public servants whose lives are being disrupted by these shortsighted decisions.

You hear it every day: homeowners are underwater, the national deficit is surging, consumers are saddled by shortsighted credit card spending, the nation's graduates are buried under student loans.

Not exact matches

Today, Price's utopian vision of doing his part for income inequality by making sure all his employees had incomes that would make them happy — or so said the psychology research he read — is looking more than a little shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

While that opinion may be supported by a literal reading of certain portions of the ancient writings which are revered as scripture, I find that attitude to be both deplorable and shortsighted.

(of) dictatorships of the right or left but also pseudodemocracies turned shortsighted by obsessions such as anti-communism.»

Such ends - justify - the - means logic is shortsighted; worse, it further undermines the framework set out by the Constitution.

Sanchez is a WC player, and by far Arsenals best but this notion that the club can not survive or be competitive in the EPL without him is incredibly shortsighted and asinine.

Rosenthal said that DHS has moved homeless adults into these buildings before, but said the plan was shortsighted because it disrupts existing single - room occupancy tenants by providing an incentive for the landlord, Alan Lapis, to accept emergency tenants at up to $ 3,000 a month from the city, compared to between $ 300 to $ 700 a month in rent from permanent low - income residents.

Its basic claim was that the American standard of living was threatened by the loss of major manufacturing industries — such as automobiles, machine tools, and steel mills — to other nations, which the commission attributed to the mediocre quality of our public educational system; this claim shifted the blame from shortsighted corporate leadership to the public schools.

«We urge the Court to again recognize as it did in Ohio v. Clark the unique role that school personnel play in protecting children by reporting suspected abuse, and reversing the shortsighted decision of the Sixth Circuit.»

Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling by Charles Fowler

But if there's a bright side to the story, it's that even the most shortsighted government policies can be moderated by an effective nonprofit effort.

According to a 2007 research paper by the credit rating company, Experian ¸ this tendency to be «financially shortsighted (myopic), favoring more immediate rewards rather than financial benefits in the future, leads to poor economic decision making.»

Summer 2017 — Issue 6, cover art by W. Jack Savage • Sixth issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.»

«The credit reporting policy that Midland Funding has implemented may be mistakenly seen by some as insignificant, but that is shortsighted.

As a result, many shortsighted boutiques that failed to respond to this shift in the market fell by the wayside.

Although this is a shortsighted approach, you shouldn't be put off by trying to win work from this type of potential customer.

The Soviet Government cut their immediate energy costs by constructing Chernobyl based on shortsighted cheap design, and now the inhabitants and cancer victims bear those externalized costs.

Shortsighted energy policies, like duplicative regulatory constraints, could reduce government revenue by $ 260 billion.

Both perspectives are backed by plenty of evidence, but both are shortsighted.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully placed a child initially enrolled in a special needs class by determining that he was simply shortsighted, into a regular education program.