(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”.
Shite
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As one sports fan put it ruefully: "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the British public's appetite to buy shite."
(2) In the words of one Lib Dem Minister: "It will be shite."
(3) The latter is "a great place if you're under three or over 53; shite if you're anywhere in between," said Dan Kieran, deputy editor of the Idler, who launched the hunt for crapness last year on the magazine's website.
(4) "They don't come and stand in the crowd and go, 'Oh, thanks for the fucking 10-quid bag of shite, would you mind being in my film?'"
(5) The effect of short-term (6 months) administration of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) on content and composition of the aortic sterols in male shite Carneau pigeons while they were on a cholesterol-free grain diet was investigated.
(6) I'm thinking the one last time from ITV (over the cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash) was genuinely moving but looking at it now its shite .
(7) Allardyce, when told of his opposite number's comments, laughed and said: "I don't give a shite, to be honest."
(8) Bucks New University, in High Wycombe, concluded that an improved Facebook page carrying reviews of students' experiences was a must, with all the risks that came with that ("Shite", posted one unhappy alumnus).
(9) I said to him: "You know your early films were so good … would you say the ones that came directly after were a bag of shite?"
(10) "If you actually sit down and listen to them, there are some great moments, but there's a lot of shite, too."
(11) Even the bargain basement offering, described by one esteemed critic as 'shite food and less than half a bottle of mediocre wine', will set competitors back £244 each - far more than a meal for two at an exclusive restaurant.
(12) "Not content with spewing shite (as always), he's decided that Wesley Sneijder is called Wesley 'Sneijders'.
(13) Perhaps fragile and emotionally vulnerable students could be given an introductory series of lectures on how life can be utterly shite at times and a bit rough, too.
(14) Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of shite about fish.” We can’t put a price on the suffering wrought by colonialism.
(15) He can tell me that all he wants, I don’t give a shite.
(16) And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just shite… The fear of having "had it, lost it", of knowing in your heart that it sounds just "all right", often seems to propel Danny Boyle's own career in its unpredictable and fast-forward course.
(17) And rather the fact-based miseries of these poor bastards than the fictional boohooisms of fellow "It were shite back then" costume grumbler The Village.
(18) The book includes a magnificently scathing 2001 resignation email to the NME , railing against sexism, “shite tunes” and pandering to the lowest common denominator – but she forgot to press “send”.
(19) Especially now with all the shite magazines – people wanna write about what fucking shoes you're wearing.