(a.) Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The labour data suggests that the recovery is ticking over quite nicely, though it would be foolhardy to get complacent given that the risks facing the economy are skewed to the downside."
(2) It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050.
(3) E.ON was the only one brave – or foolhardy – enough to put its head above the parapet and make a formal application to the government.
(4) Plainly the system has faults, but seeking to upend things at a time when the public can see no imminent need for change might be considered brave if not foolhardy.
(5) It would be foolhardy to offer an inflexible step-care protocol for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, given its heterogeneity and our uncertainty about its pathogenesis.
(6) But for me to say ‘this is what we’re going to do’ would be very foolhardy in the first place and, secondly, dishonest because the truth is I don’t know.” He couched it perfectly, especially for those who were with him on the training camp in Miami before the World Cup when, barely a day after one of his predecessors, Sven-Goran Eriksson, stated there was “absolutely no way” England could win it, the manager abandoned all restraint and fell into the trap.
(7) Is it foolhardy of the younger Joe to hang on to the life he knows, even when the future is warning him against it?
(8) It would be foolhardy for Iran to want to break out, they say, as there would be a high probability that its work would be discovered before it had made a single weapon.
(9) To throw that protection away in response to business demands without any plans to secure improvement in journalism is foolhardy and an insult to our local communities."
(10) "People thought we were extremely brave, or foolhardy," says Annie Hudson, Bristol social services divisional director for children, about her predecessor's decision to let in the cameras.
(11) The risk for Purnell is that his act of courage - or foolhardiness - will not pull the government down with him, but leave it standing but impotent, the cabinet weakened but intact, too strong to fall apart entirely even though too weak to command events.
(12) "[G]iven the deaths of 15 million people during the war, attempting to position 1918 as a simplistic, nationalistic triumph seems … foolhardy, not least because the very same tensions re-emerged to such deadly effect in 1939.
(13) Sending money to Washington and expecting central planners to send it back in a way that will grow jobs is foolhardy,” he said.
(14) Reviews are always somewhat retrospective in outlook; to write a review at the present time is especially foolhardy since developments in biology are such that totally new concepts can arise almost overnight, as it were.
(15) Actually using a bike as a means of getting from A to B along normal roads is still a matter for the brave and the foolhardy, and cyclists on the roads are a rare sight indeed.
(16) But flouting both simultaneously is for the foolhardy alone.
(17) It would be foolhardy to suggest we’re out of the woods yet, though, and share prices are likely to remain volatile for some time.” Markets have endured some of the worst volatility since the financial crisis amid fears over China’s slowing economy.
(18) Río Doce's willingness to go further than other local papers is not, however, foolhardy bravery.
(19) But at the moment, they are not recognised as anyone’s territory and we can sail legally, peacefully through these alleged 12-mile limits.” Conroy said while it would be “foolhardy” for the government to announce a freedom-of-navigation exercise in advance of it happening, Australia “should be prepared to defend the international system”.
(20) In what some have termed a foolhardy plan, others highly idealistic, the movement plans to reconstruct the city regardless of who wins the war.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.