(1) So, logic would dictate that if Greeks are genuinely in favour of reform – and opinion polls have consistently shown wide support for many of the structural changes needed – they would be foolish to give these two parties another chance.
(2) It would be foolish to bet that Saudi Arabia will exist in its current form a generation from now.” Memories of how the Saudis and Opec deliberately triggered an economic crisis in the west in retaliation for US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war still rankle.
(3) That's foolish, because Real Madrid rarely look more uncomfortable than at set pieces.
(4) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(5) Shorten said while Hicks was “foolish to get caught up in the Afghanistan conflict” the court decision showed an injustice.
(6) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(7) And it means that if Labour were to win, Mr Brown would be very foolish, indeed downright wrong, to move Mr Darling.
(8) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
(9) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(10) But what people did when they were young and foolish, or even when they were not yet public figures, is not always the same.
(11) While we have this, it would be foolish to pursue a policy of still constraining resources in the acute sector.
(12) All three echoed remarks made recently by the Bank’s governor, Mark Carney, who said it would be “foolish” to cut rates in response to a temporary fall in inflation.
(13) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
(14) In a high-risk, 65-minute speech in Manchester delivered without notes, and 20 minutes longer than he intended, Miliband tried to take the mantle of the 19th-century Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli's one nation, pointedly grabbing the territory and language of the centre ground which he believes David Cameron has foolishly vacated.
(15) But one backbencher, West Australian Liberal Dennis Jensen , has said it is foolish to set up a $20bn medical research fund at the same time as the government is cutting money from scientific agencies, including the CSIRO and the Australian Research Council.
(16) Donald Trump is too weak, too foolish and too chaotic to see beyond the immediate crises he has created.
(17) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(18) They privately acknowledge they were foolish in taking the bait, but argue they have broken no rules since they were offered no jobs, and therefore have no commercial interests to declare in the MPs' register.
(19) "Hopefully, the lesson is to stop this foolish childishness," McCain said Thursday on CNN.
(20) The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.” As for the social conditions that obtain: “It is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.” Looking back on my political activism of the 1970s and 80s, there was a lot of refusing to accept existing conditions on the basis that they were “wrong and foolish”.
Moo
Definition:
(adv., & n.) See Mo.
(v. i.) To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word.
(n.) The lowing of a cow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A longitudinal design was employed to test the main and stress-moderating effects of young adolescents' perceived family environment (Family Environment Scales; FES; Moos & Moos, 1981) on their depression, anxiety, and self-esteem.
(2) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(3) The present investigation has examined the experience of 3 groups of nurses, working in spinal injuries, head injuries, and general medicine, using a standardised questionnaire devised by Moos.
(4) How would Moo sell business cards with your personal photos on them if they could be sued into oblivion should those photos turn out to infringe copyright?
(5) Anyone could imitate the twice-baked potatoes at the Peddler , or turn out a veal parmesan like the Villa Capri's, but there was no way a non-Chinese person could make moo shu pork , regardless of his or her training.
(6) Sulfate could be partially replaced by HPO(4) (2-) and HAsO(4) (2-) but not by BO(3) (-), MoO(4) (2-), NO(3) (-), or Cl(-); formate and MoO(4) (2-) inhibited iron oxidation.
(7) Based on differences in size, charge, antigenicity and sarcomere distribution, at least three different isoforms of this protein have been identified (Callaway & Bechtel, 1981; Yamamoto & Moos, 1983; Reinach et al., 1982; Dhoot et al., 1985).
(8) Call me a boring old class war moo, but I've watched several episodes of Made In Chelsea and at no point has Fenella Flumpinton-Ding-Dong's mother pointed her towards prostitution, whinnying, "Go on darling, get your pants off, help us out."
(9) Fifty-one subjects completed a modified version of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire daily for 8 weeks.
(10) Student teachers in yearlong mental health consultation groups completed Moos's Group Environment Scale (GES) and three semantic differential ratings of their satisfaction with the group experience.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The 2007 Pyongyang summit between Kim Jong-il of North Korea and South Korea’s then president, Roh Moo-hyun, was the meeting between the two states’ leaders.
(12) They also completed the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) once a month.
(13) Voluntary control of breathing is taught in Moo Duk Tkow in order to maximize force during striking, kicking, and blocking.
(14) The case was brought by Josh Moos and Hannah McClure, who were among a crowd of up to 5,000 held for five hours by police.
(15) The recording tickled him because it sounds nothing like a car, but exactly like the sound of a cow mooing.
(16) Thirty women completed alcohol, marihuana, and tobacco use diaries and Form T of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) every day for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(17) If women can’t get free legal help when applying for an intervention order, how effective in protecting their safety will those orders be?” “We called on Coag to deliver robust, long-term and adequate resourcing for the national plan, and they didn’t,” chief executive of Domestic Violence New South Wales, Moo Baulch, said.
(18) Patients and staff subgroups differed somewhat in their relative emphases on certain program dimensions but, overall, the program still correlated highly with the therapeutic community cluster described by Moos (Spearman's rho: 0.660-0.809, all p values less than 0.05).
(19) Thirty women completed marihuana use diaries and Form T of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) every day for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(20) The highest formate dehydrogenase activity was obtained with 2.5 x 10(-4) M Na(2)MoO(4) and 5 x 10(-5) Na(2)SeO(3).