Sentences with phrase «foolish on»

If you include the time you won a pie eating contest, however, it will probably look foolish on your part even if you are applying for a position in the food and beverage industry.

But using the rearview mirror to groom yourself is foolish on a number of levels.

After all, it's hard to dislike someone who's a good - enough sport to appear foolish on national television.

Turns out, however, that your participation entails playing straight guy to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who's posing as a journalist from Kazakhstan, who has a knack for making even the mundane look foolish on camera and who plans to use your tape in a major movie.

To say it is foolish to think ACO2 dominates the climate on decadal scales is more correct IMO than to think foolish on the centennial.

Tim, you made yourself look foolish on Tim lambert's blog by claiming that the DDT «ban» was killing Australians.

Now since you insist on me making you look foolish on what in fact IS common knowledge, I guess I have to oblige.

After over a year of sideways and downward movement from late 2015 through early 2017, the most recent NASA report shows that over the past year an acceleration in sea level rise has become visible on the NASA graph, even with just a quick glance (then again, while the long term trend is consistently upward, the annual trend is so variable, that it's likely foolish on my part to suggest a change in trend based on the most recent periods of increase which have only been occurring for less than 12 months).

And with the recent dearth of Xbox One exclusives, it would be foolish on Microsoft's part.

Clearly, your reported statement that «teachers» only account for 10 - 20 percent of the value of student achievement is foolish on the face of it.

I'm 34 weeks, already insecure and I'm worries I'll look foolish on the Easter - y dress I picked out.

«When there was an opportunity for their representatives to come and speak... we couldn't get anybody to respond to us, give us any information, and, I think, it was foolish on their part because they had a really good opportunity to market this thing and see what they could do to get people on their side,» he said.

«At the same time, it is arrogant and foolish on the part of some northern youths to issue quit notice.

Both sides are also being foolish on the length of transition, which they want to hold to two years.

Your gunna look fairly foolish on Saturday then

To think we can «manage» God is foolish on so many levels.

I know it is comforting to think that, and by all means, if it makes life for you easier, then fine, believe... but you can not logically argue with Atheists and expect not to look foolish on the subject matter because your belief is not based on logic.

Or doing anything foolish on Vancouver's Capilano Suspension Bridge.

Not exact matches

Investors thought taking on Bell, Rogers and Telus was foolish.

The temptation to rely on quick advice from locals is obvious, but it's a foolish mistake, particularly when those locals have a financial interest in painting a particular picture for you.

On the surface, the business model seems downright foolish.

In other words: don't do anything foolish, just stand aside and let everyone else implode as their own reliance on ever - expanding credit and the U.S. dollar hegemony brings them to their knees.

Meanwhile, app developers were left scrambling to adjust their products to fit the iPhone 5's new taller four - inch screen, to avoid looking foolish for producing games with black bars on the sides, like when you try to watch an old TV show from the»90s on a widescreen TV.

It's a feint, predicated on the foolish belief that consumers are magpies with short memories and an irresistible attraction to novelty.

On the other hand, I thought it was foolish to view that as the «most common» outcome.

It's equally foolish to try to do something on the cheap that you shouldn't do at all.

It would be foolish for Quebecor to do nothing in the face of such expectations, especially when the government is hell - bent on generating more wireless competition.

If people worry that offering suggestions might make them feel foolish or be rebuked, they simply won't try to come up with new angles on problems or new ways of growing the business.

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

Maybe there isn't a higher - paying career choice that lights your soul on fire, but if there is, you'd be foolish not to pursue it over another option.

«A Roth conversion might be a foolish thing to do if you plan on leaving the high - taxed state of your working years to retire in a state that levies no income taxes.»

But a Roth conversion might be a foolish thing to do if you plan on leaving the high - taxed state of your working years to retire in a state that levies no income taxes.

As she sets out on her new venture, bad actors in the space would be foolish to expect any mercy from Demirors.

It would be foolish to select any companies from this list solely based on the fact management has issue raising payouts for over ten years.

In other words, the rich world should focus on getting rid of blatantly foolish and costly policies.

The restrictions are so narrow and the adverse result if you run afoul of them so punitive (a 100 % penalty tax on the value of the shares and on any income from reinvested income) that only the truly foolish would hold private company shares in their TFSA (I'm sure some do, but they're playing with fire).

I proceeded to do what every foolish 23 year old would do and blow it on things!

I think maxing out your real estate purchase based on today's rates would be foolish.

This may seem penny wise and pound foolish, but with ample supply on world markets, this strategy seems prudent.

Frankly there is no right answer — But I found 6 - 8 months is a good period to start with Below is my simplistic review of two businesses in model portfolio — If would be foolish to buy or sell any business based on below discussion I highly encourage you to write your thesis in comments if you...

«Changing the Drug Court is a penny wise, pound foolish decision on both ends of the spectrum.

Investing your money on stocks without knowledge of what you are doing is simply foolish, even if you make some money by luck, you will definitely lose it because luck can't carry you far in the stock market.

It's foolish to live in the USA if you want to retire early, most of FI bloggers miss on that point.

Google drives hundreds of millions of visitors to websites world wide and excluding the opportunity to attract organic traffic, even if it's now a bit of a mystery as to what was searched on, would be foolish.

I agree that buybacks at a high valuation are likely foolish, but increasing the attractiveness of the stock to those focused on the immediate payback would seem to make acquiring more shares at a good price more difficult.

We'd be foolish to leave money on the table by missing out on a company match.

He wrote, «Pages that earn tweets + Facebook shares also correlate well with earning links, and send direct traffic on their own — ignoring these services at this point seems foolish.»

Don't push you foolish ways on the rest of us please.

7:26,27; «But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell.

In his [Christ's] parable of the wise and foolish builder, in which the house built on sand falls with a crash in the midst of a storm (Matthew 7:24 — 27)... he painted a highly memorable image of the dangers of falling spiritually.»