Sentences with phrase «shortsighted in»

Shortsighted in the most profound way.

I agree that DRM is certainly not the cause of the Amazon - Hachette struggle, but I do think publishers are mostly being shortsighted in relying on it.

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.

The utopian vision of an entrepreneur who wanted to do his part for income inequality looks shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

Not exact matches

Local and state government play a crucial role in developing talent for startups — they just tend to approach talent development in a shortsighted way.

Current proxy rules work against shareowners who are trying to vote in alternative and independent board members, but it is shortsighted of firms to ignore owners» interests.

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.

«The repercussions of this cruel and shortsighted approach are wasted human potential and incredible costs incurred in adulthood in the courts, the medical system and in social services.»

Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy — which is passing from democracy to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.

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.

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

Are not our distinctions between nature and history shortsighted anti of limited validity when seen in this cosmic perspective?

In the overdramatic and animated attempts to sidestep that label, they only make themselves out to be the ones who are shortsighted and weakminded.

Its shortsighted and equally blind to think that the complexity of the worlds problems can be summed up in religion.

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

And we take heart, like Paul, that nothing — nothing unwise we say, nothing shortsighted we do, nothing unthinking we do — will be able to separate each of you from God's love that is in Jesus Christ.»

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.

But I repeat, only a very shortsighted person would say that players are in it just for the love of the game or other similar crap.

Gathers dreamed of playing in the NBA, but he wasn't shortsighted.

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.

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.

Sheppard said the public had «been sold down the river in the interests of shortsighted, practical politics....

He can ask them to make it less similar to his (which I imagine will be the ultimate outcome), but claiming they are committing infringement on a platform he owns no rights to (which was the claim in the original letter sent to them) is shortsighted and more a sign of ego than protection of a brand, which is basically LeBron in a nutshell.

However, the failure to source a more «for - like» replacement to Baker, certainly in terms of age, seems incredibly shortsighted.

Should be Clarets all over the stadium with easily obtained «home» tickets, all of whom would have been in the away end if the club had been less shortsighted.

To disregard all those initiatives, to disregard the progress that we made once we had the increase in funding for staffing and other activities, we just think they were very shortsighted,» he said.

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.

However, these arguments are shortsighted; they hinge on the assumption that the AKP will remain the dominant party in the legislature.

We have a spending problem thanks to our shortsighted leaders in Albany and Washington.

In the materials distributed at the debate, he said that he «will not allow shortsighted planning or inadequate science [to] lead to flawed outcomes.»

Democratic Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, of Ossining, further criticized the county executive in the Democratic response to Astorino's State of the County address, calling the initial airport deal a shortsighted solution to «his own fiscal mismanagement.»

Shortsighted decisions like taking an anticipatory loan on the sale of still - publicly owned Summit Park Hospital has given us a $ 125,000,000 deficit and the lowest credit rating in New York.

«Mayor de Blasio must veto this shortsighted provision immediately and prevent the city council from ever enacting it into law,» the group of Republican - caucusing members said in a statement.

She suggested that the state's demands for lowered reserve levels in the face of fluctuating tax caps was «shortsighted and indicative of fiscal irresponsibility.»

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.

TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (06/08/2011)(readMedia)-- Members of CSEA and PEF will join with Dutchess - area community activists this Thursday, June 9, 2011 from 4 to 6 p.m. outside the former Hudson River Psychiatric Center Campus on Route 9 for a rally to protect the vital state mental health services that will be lost in the Mid-Hudson Valley community due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's shortsighted plan to close HRPC.

Currently however, due to shortsighted state policies, a new immigrant that does succeed likely does so in spite of his or her schooling, rather than because of the quality of his or her public education.

«In 2011 we wrote that we may never sort this out, because proving its distance through the galactic center would be so difficult — but we were being shortsighted, because here it is, six years later!»

Efficiency is one of the reasons that clearing rain forests is shortsighted: The nutrient cycles in rain forest ecosystems are so tight that the soil is usually very poor for farming.

In addition, many PIs espouse the «I suffered in my time; now it's your turn» philosophy, which is shortsighted at best and hypocritical at worsIn addition, many PIs espouse the «I suffered in my time; now it's your turn» philosophy, which is shortsighted at best and hypocritical at worsin my time; now it's your turn» philosophy, which is shortsighted at best and hypocritical at worst.

«If I bring in people who will be uncomfortable each time they step outside the QC lab, I would be shortsighted.

- David In my last post, I discussed a House subcommittee's shortsighted vote to slash funding for the U.S.

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

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.

There are big problems in the world, and if he solves them — if people want to get in his way, OK, but it's really shortsighted of them.

«One of the factors slowing the world - wide switch to natural gas is shortsighted opposition from some environmentalists in the U.S., Europe and beyond.

Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed on the altar of the nation's ossified urban education systems.

* A full 82 percent of respondents believed that «defining success only in terms of student achievement is narrow and shortsighted.»