Sentences with phrase «only myopic»

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Republican - controlled State Senate have no answers, only a myopic defense of the status quo.

Not exact matches

While there are always people who will «beat the system», your myopic and simple - minded FANTASY that 2 million abortions are only for «convenience» ignores the gut - wrenching decisions that many women have to consider and make.

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).

So if I put aside certain morons (Wengers a crook, Wengers too old, Wengers a fool) and certain political agitators who only ever write lop sided and myopic articles to try to undermine Wenger and wind up the morons (km is the most obvious), then others who make intelligent comments (there are many — both pro and anti Wenger) have in the past 2 - 3 years put the real issues in front of the owners, the board and the manager.

A secondary, and perhaps more soluble challenge is the myopic structure of political systems, particularly in democracies where only the current set of voters has a real say.

«[T] hese bills are myopic in their scope and focus only on one branch of government,» he said in his veto message.

This myopic view allows them to see only how viruses co-opt cells or cause disease.

«The other sites are being myopic; they are only interested in short - term gain.»

While it's true that this is the only one of this year's four acting categories where you can conjure up a pretty realistic scenario for any of the nominees being declared the winner, and we were all deprived a truly representational trial heat for this category, it's myopic to act like there weren't a couple clear favorites before Winslet's departure that are now, consequently, favorites once again.

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».

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.

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.»

Also, you are incorrect in that you think I am myopic in assessing stocks only from a bull market perspective.

It is hard to believe that they are so myopic as to only see the risks and ignore the opportunities.

One can only imagine what the world would be like if it were run by public - spirited men like you rather than the myopic self - interested sorts who have are blocking necessary action.

This myopic fixation on anthropogenic factors became its fatal flaw, leading not only to a warped and incomplete understanding of what drives our climate but also to the politicization and corruption of the IPCC process and, unfortunately, of a good part of climate science itself.

As a geologist, I am highly frustrated by the asymmetry of research effort concentrated not only on the rather abstract notion of global average temperature almost to the exclusion of the other important climatic variables, but further obsessive and myopic self - flagellation over the human influence on trace CO2 levels.

To add to the confusion, the existing supercomputer models offer only a blurred, myopic vision of the world, which isn't focused enough to resolve most clouds.

Yet we are trying to predict what our climate will be in 100 years based on a myopic fixation on only this one forcing factor, while essentially ignoring all the rest.

According to Harper, change will only come if «clients to press harder for alternative fee arrangements, courts to back away from policies that embed the billable hour, law firm leaders to stop rewarding excessive associate hours and senior partners to consider the deleterious consequences of their myopic focus on short - term profit - maximizing behavior.»

With all due respect, to say that that is the «only question» is to take a very myopic view, practically devoid of historical knowledge.

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

Anyone who wonders why Congress is more unpopular than a myopic baseball umpire who hates the home team need only look on page 1,967 of the omnibus spending bill.