(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”.
Nimrod
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A new Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft will be scrapped even though £3.6bn – about the amount of money the entire defence budget will be cut by over the next four years – has already been spent on it.
(2) In August 2014, Robert travelled to Beijing with Paul Marks, the head of the Australian mining company Nimrod Resources.
(3) In September 2006, a Nimrod surveillance aircraft from RAF Kinloss in Scotland exploded in mid-air near Kandahar, killing all 14 servicemen on board, while in March 2012 six soldiers died when their Warrior armoured fighting vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Helmand province.
(4) What you can do is buy in a different kind of capability, possibly from the Americans, and refitting other airframes with some of the technology that would have been inside Nimrod.
(5) Robb brushed off a question about whether AusTrade had provided any assistance in connection with the Nimrod Resources deal, noting Turnbull had “sought all information associated with the issues”.
(6) A spokesman for Stuart Robert has told News Corp the then assistant defence minister attended in a “private capacity” a signing ceremony with Nimrod Resources’ Paul Marks and Communist party officials who run the Chinese government-owned company MinMetals.
(7) It will also represent the biggest single loss of UK life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006, when an ageing RAF Nimrod crashed in the country shortly after mid-air refuelling, with the loss of all 14 people aboard.
(8) The percentage of total aberrations in root tips exposed to nimrod reached 54.39% at 250 ppm for 4 h, and 64.69% in root tips exposed to rubigan-4 at 250 ppm for 6 h. The types of numerical chromosomal aberrations produced by both fungicides included: binucleate cells, c-metaphases, sticky chromosomes, polyploid cells, and laggards.
(9) She said Bellingham told her fellow Loose Women panellists: “Please, when I’m gone, have a big party for me and have a dance.” The service began with Bellingham’s husband, Michael, and sons Michael, 31, and Robert, 26, helping to carry her wooden coffin adorned with white flowers into the church as Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations was played.
(10) And then all was surrounded by a glittering blue sea as the audience was brought into the action, holding up sheets of material, accompanied by the strains of Elgar's Nimrod, performed on the greensward by a contingent from the London Symphony Orchestra.
(11) She agreed that the absence of Nimrods limited the country's defence capabilities: "It has removed a capability and increases the risks.
(12) He will also say that the loss of the MRA4 Nimrod is an example of what he calls Labour's "incompetence in defence acquisition".
(13) Turnbull sought advice from Parkinson, the head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, after revelations Robert attended an event in Beijing to celebrate a deal involving Nimrod Resources, an Australian mining company headed by Liberal party donor Paul Marks.
(14) During the course of bureaucrat Martin Parkinson’s investigation, Robert disclosed a shareholding in Metallum Holdings, which had an interest in Nimrod Resources.
(15) The deaths take the toll of British personnel killed in Afghanistan to 404 and represent the biggest loss of UK life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006, when an ageing RAF Nimrod crashed shortly after midair refuelling, with the loss of all 14 people aboard.
(16) We have repeatedly sought reassurances from the Tory-led government that they had properly thought through the defence and industrial consequences of scrapping Nimrod.
(17) This was followed by a meeting with the Chinese vice-minister of land and resources in the reported presence of Nimrod Resources the next day.
(18) A Paul Marks is also listed as the executive chairman of Nimrod Resources , which donated $500,000 to the Liberal party, but Marks declined to confirm if he was also the director of P Marks Investments when contacted by Guardian Australia.
(19) Today's report also points to delays and cost overruns in plans to equip the RAF with new Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
(20) • Scrap the long-delayed Nimrod MRA4 maritime reconnaissance aircraft on which £3.5bn – more than the total cut in the defence budget over the next four years – has been spent.