Sentences with phrase «shortsighted political»

It would be a dramatic error to let shortsighted political motivations determine its end - point.

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Trump's embrace of the country's racially charged past has thrown the Republican Party into crisis, dividing his core supporters who have urged him on from the political leaders who fear that he is leading them down a perilous and shortsighted path.

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.

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.

The character becomes a reflection of the movie's political sensibilities — shortsighted, angry, and purely reactive.

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 breathtaking dash through personal hypocrisy, factual inaccuracy and political rhetoric... it's very hard to interpret this as a statement made in good faith... a clearer example of disinformation could not be wished for... excellent means to give a misleading impression of uncertainty... shortsighted vision and moral bankruptcy... a shameless call to narrow self - interest... Professor Curry advocates unwise policy based on false claims and bankrupt morals.

In Canada, today's political and business leaders want to privatize profits and socialize losses, all the while chanting the shortsighted mantra that civic spending is, if not evil, some perverted form of socialism.