Sentences with phrase «shortsighted as»

The evidence is «equivocal» because it does not agree with limited land based observation of cloud — something that may be a little shortsighted as these changes seem significantly to be associated with sea surface temperature in the tropics and the influences of the northern and southern annular modes.

Cravenly supporting cruel, badly - implemented cuts is as strategically shortsighted as it is immoral.

If you do, then you're just as naive and shortsighted as the author.

DAN... calling all religions cults is rather shortsighted as you are not differentiating between the archaic definition of the word «cult» from the modern usage.

Spinoza's enemies may not, in the end, have been as narrow - minded and shortsighted as Steven Nadler would like us to believe.

To hate someone based upon that choice is shortsighted as you can not force your views upon others.

But managers who think the point of electronic tracking is to police their employees are being as shortsighted as teachers who think the point of the Internet is to make it easier to catch students who plagiarize.

Not exact matches

Some might suggest a lifestyle that revolves around skipping meals is short - term and shortsighted, but as the evidence shows, it is not only more convenient, but healthier and more effective as well.

Other technology forebears made similarly shortsighted predictions, as the Times story shows.

One former employee, who preferred to remain anonymous, described the culture within the company as «extremely mercenary» and shortsighted.

Venture capitalists (and other investors in startups) are neither greedy nor shortsighted, as some disappointed entrepreneurs believe; they are simply inappropriate for most start - ups.

In any event, health - care affordability is an issue for social policy; the notion that governments should use IP as a tool for containing drug costs is both shortsighted and counterproductive.

As many in the Catholic world had been expecting the Church to permit contraception under certain circumstances thanks to many perhaps well - meaning but shortsighted clergy and theologians, the encyclical met with hostility and has been widely ignored and explicitly rejected.

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.

The pope's shortsighted views on gay marriage as being such a terrible scourge are more evidence that the Catholic Church is completely out of step with the events of the world.

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

I applaud those of you who refuse to rule out the possibility of a higher intellect... This does not mean we believe in someone else's God... But to rule out the possibility is unintellectual and just shortsighted... no different from the ultra nutjobs... Einstein believed in such a higher intellect as well

The slogan... Realpolitik meant the approbation of a shortsighted nationalism, and compromises with forces and tendencies which had hitherto been resisted as hostile to progress...

This may be a shortsighted error on our part, but, with the exception of a few saintly souls, human beings generally have not thought of themselves as having any obligations to nonhuman nature.

When judgment falls, it will be only a matter of academic debate whether it was the disunity of professing Christians, as ecumenists think, that frustrated the emergence of «the great world church,» or whether it was the doctrinal compromises of ecumenical pluralists or the shortsighted squabbling of evangelical independents that spurred the breakdown of Western technological civilization.

To oppose all secularization wherever it appears — in Spain, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Colombia — because it is seen as inevitably leading to secularism is historically shortsighted and strategically mistaken.

«As the agricultural community warned when the President made the announcement, withdrawing from TPP was shortsighted and unnecessary, and now US wheat farmers could take the hit,» he said.

Parrots will always parrot, they absolutely can not adapt their thoughts or speech even in light of new information, they do not understand the difference between having influence and having power, they do not understand that as INFLUENTIAL as Wenger has been at Arsenal over the years, he ultimately does not have the POWER to sign the cheques that bring in players, not Fergie, not Mourinho, not Guardiola have such or ever had such far reaching powers, that a manager, no matter how popular, have to suck up to the guys at the top one way or another, Mourinho lost twice to the ego of the top hierarchy at Chelsea, at Madrid too... No manager can achieve anything tangible under the conditions that Wenger has been working, of course Wenger cares about the finances of the club but like Dein, it's more about a sustainable development and not just shortsighted profit making like Gazidis and Kroenke.

To strip him in order to make an interim title fight to «save» the UFC 206 card as if that will actually help it, is shortsighted.

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

Like the helmet sensor companies, I firmly believe that NOCSAE's ruling, insofar as it de-certifies helmets equipped with impact sensors, is shortsighted and amounts to «throwing the baby out with the bathwater.»

But a local newspaper has published editorials urging her to clarify her position on the nominee, her opponents have seized on it as a potential weakness, and some political experts say the strategy might be shortsighted.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) said: «I shudder to think of what future generations will have to deal with as a consequence of this shortsighted, dangerous decision.»

As someone who has spent his career chronicling the consequences of government decisions, I'm all too aware of the costs of shortsighted policies and partisan gridlock.

Despite the budget's supposed support for more commercial activity in low Earth orbit, industry representatives view its defunding of the ISS as shortsighted.

Being shortsighted isn't all that bad as you don't need to regularly wear glasses, but only when you need too.

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.

Between moments of outlandish humour, disturbing violence and Big Brother - style paranoia, The Lobster still finds time for occasional tenderness between David and Shortsighted Woman, as their battle against everyone makes their love enduring.

He portrays Blake as a wiry old rooster, tired but too tough and shortsighted to stop his life from going off the road and into the ditch.

«If, as we believe, this administration is serious about making education its No. 1 priority, it would be a grave and shortsighted mistake to remove these crucial voices from the dialogue at the national level.»

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.»

That requires far more than clinging to annual, mass, standardized testing as our most vital means of giving every child access to an equitable education, and if The Times and other testing advocates really can not see past that, then they are not merely shortsighted; they are clinging to damaging and delusional policies.

I confess that I've hoped in the last few days to find some way to see the O'Reilly bombshell as something other than a crassly executed, astonishingly shortsighted and probably, yes, callous misfire.

And in a marvelous juxtaposition of text and image, the woolly rhinoceros (coelodonta), described as shortsighted and dangerous, is shown tripping along, almost as though dancing, in a mini pop - up.

I don't hate publishers, I understand where they are coming from — not that I agree with their decisions to date as I think it's shortsighted — but we live in a publishing landscape where we have more options.

That being said, it'd be shortsighted of us not to mention traditional publishing as a possibility for book discovery.

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

You wouldn't buy a subcompact vehicle if you had 5 kids, and buying the wrong annuity is just as shortsighted.

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

If smaller indie developers can afford to make their titles HD version a universal one than it's definitely possible for bigger publishers as well - what I see now is just a shortsighted stupid «milking» policy on their side.

The truth is gay artists in this country have been making work about everything under the sun for decades, and it would be shortsighted to only consider examples of «victim art» as representative of the whole.

Drawing on the spectacular resources of the Norton Simon collections, the exhibition explores the wealth of aesthetic and conceptual artistic strategies that challenge the shortsighted view of still life as simply an art of imitation.

Educated at Auburn University, the University of Alabama in Huntsville and California College of the Arts, Ojih Odutola describes her training as «incredibly shortsighted.»

In this perspective and through this modality, impossible images and objects take form, as Apparato Respiratorio (Breathing System, 1992), Shortsighted Mirror (2002) that seems to quote weird inventions from the 17th Century.