Standing rigidly by a decision which is wrong, or ill-judged, is obviously tempting, but in the long term is likely to be counter-productive. |
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The initial reaction of the opposition to the savings plan has been hasty and ill-judged. |
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On the other hand his risky and ill-judged decision to appear before the Petrov Royal Commission in 1954 was a significant blunder. |
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Stiffing the UN and threatening retaliation against key Security Council members may have been impolitic and ill-judged. |
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If customers boycott Tesco because of this ill-judged decision, they may well back down. |
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He has a PR man and a media advisor but his decision to have a weekly column in the Record was ill-judged. |
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I thought it ugly, ill-conceived, badly assembled and completely ill-judged. |
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Members of the House may not be aware of an ill-judged intervention into national politics by the Secretary-General of NATO today. |
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There is a real risk of encouraging one particular sector to the detriment of others through ill-judged limit values. |
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Due to our ill-judged decision to cancel Friday, for which you cannot be held responsible, we now have to begin at 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday. |
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Monitoring these very personal choices in order to identify ill-judged or improper conception decisions would be condemned as an unacceptably intrusive abuse of state power. |
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This foolish and ill-judged ambition would eventually kill him. |
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Most academics and most AUT members will oppose this ill-judged decision. |
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If we are not careful we will have judges sitting on their benches apologising all day for inconsiderate or intemperate or ill-judged remarks and there won't be any work done. |
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One ill-judged comment or rash action and your career is finished. |
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This is a very ill-judged move as far as one particular Member State is concerned, namely Cyprus. |
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Mr Kesri's gamble may yet prove ill-judged. |
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Then there's ill-judged humour, of course. |
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So I'm stuck with my ill-judged spending decisions. |
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I am therefore convinced that we must introduce control mechanisms that will prevent the managers of investment and hedge funds from making ill-judged analyses of operational and systemic risks. |
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The fundamental problem when we give mixed messages or perhaps poorly expressed or ill-judged messages is that we risk conveying the wrong message. |
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Finally, it emphasises the Commission's total lack of self-criticism when its ill-judged decisions lead to economic disasters, as in the Rhodia affair, for example. |
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The Commission and the Council obviously share that goal, so why on earth has the Commission managed to put forward such an ill-judged and divisive proposal? |
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Victoire Ingabire's decision to raise the issue of RPF war crimes at a genocide memorial has been seen by many as ill-judged, given sensitivities around the memorial. |
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Jacques Chirac's speech to the Bundestag was ill-judged and ill-timed. |
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The Commission is not facing up to its responsibilities and is willing to sign a limited and ill-judged agreement that can only lead to the destruction of our fleet in two or three years' time. |
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I ask the government to respect Canada's international obligations and adhere to their own commitments on the use of children in armed conflicts instead of confusing the issue with ill-judged partisan attacks. |
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An ill-judged forward ball may lose you possession, so it's better to perform a safe pass backwards to a teammate than trying to force something going forward which could land you in trouble. |
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Only the President of Brazil, Luiz InĂ¡cio Lula da Silva, had spoiled that common front when he had used some ill-judged words about the situation in Iran. |
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A shortened format and a desperately ill-judged course have made the Olympic Games something other than the greatest test in the sport of eventing. |
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Courtiers are hoping he doesn't blow it with an ill-judged blow-out. |
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It has been characterised as an era of colourless politicians, ill-judged initiatives in foreign policy, tentative reforms, parliamentary corruption, and economic weakness. |
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The scheme is ill-timed, ill-judged, ill-planned and ill-prepared. |
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The director of the White House military office, Louis Caldera, yesterday apologised for the ill-judged photo op. |
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