| People with shortsightedness have poorer ability to focus accurately by accommodation, which leads to even more retinal blur and defocus. |
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| I have suffered from myopia or shortsightedness all my life and things are getting worse. |
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| Because of the government's shortsightedness and the fact that it has not acted, demand has significantly risen in recent years. |
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| They felt different, too, thought differently, and pursued lifestyles characterized by shortsightedness and intemperance. |
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| But, in terms of fiscal shortsightedness, the message is much more worrying. At most, the attempt to roll back the Bush legacy is a limited one. |
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| Once again, we can only condemn the inconsistency and shortsightedness of the government. |
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| We will be endangering our own national security with such shortsightedness. |
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| The album's closer is an affecting jeremiad against video games, bling, ahistorical media, and spiritual shortsightedness. |
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| Ultimately no one took any notice of them and we are now seeing the results of colonial shortsightedness. |
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| Here is yet another example of the shortsightedness of the Harper government and its callous disregard for our vital cultural heritage. |
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| Mistaken assessments or a certain shortsightedness can unfortunately lead to disasters of this nature. |
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| In 1999, when we negotiated the current interinstitutional agreement, we managed to modify the figures in heading 5, but with perspectives which, as a result of shortsightedness, are now insufficient. |
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| This shortsightedness demonstrates that we are not prepared to make such fateful decisions before first coming to understand and accept the responsibilities that accompany them. |
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| This is a choice between political vision and political shortsightedness. |
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| However, such political shortsightedness does not stand up to reality. |
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| This is quite a change from the shortsightedness, the partisanship and the kind of intolerance shown by government members and also by the health workers lobby-because it is indeed a lobby. |
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| Maybe such shortsightedness on the part of the Ontario government concerning interprovincial trade barriers is part of the reason that Bob Rae got dumped the other day and the people of Ontario chose another government. |
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| The shortsightedness of that action is self-evident. |
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| Their natural shortsightedness leads many of them to believe that a whole new age has dawned, and to consign to irrelevancy all that has gone before. |
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| Peace is being undermined by our shortsightedness and failure to support social solidarity, by the steamrolling of singular cultures and by rekindled conflicts rooted in clashes between cultural identities. |
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| Still, its political shortsightedness is astounding, and the idea that we would revert to the unsuccessful immigration-control methods of a dubious 1954 campaign is absurd and depressing. |
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| An adjustable eyepiece is sufficient for mild shortsightedness! |
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| That is but one example of the shortsightedness. |
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| I don't know how our leaders have come to lose their common sense and why they suffer from such shortsightedness when it comes to understanding the importance of agriculture for our societies. |
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| It is a pity that the political shortsightedness of the new Latin American revolutionaries has still not allowed them to understand the deal of fools in which they are engaging under the banners of another age. |
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| The premiers are united against this type of government shortsightedness. |
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| Canadians will not forgive that incredible shortsightedness and hypocrisy. |
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| The South African government has come under heavy fire from a Canadian business organisation for incompetence and shortsightedness. |
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| The author, 41, hoped the ophthalmologist would correct her shortsightedness. |
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| Howley ought to check herself before lambasting an industry continually threatened by the long arms of the law and the shortsightedness of its critics. |
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| This was an opportunity to enhance health care in this country for a number of years but shortsightedness and political point scoring has won the day. |
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| F ever there was a case of shortsightedness when it Icomes to implementing Government cuts, the decision to hack away at the Legal Aid budget is surely it. |
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| It is a story of stunning shortsightedness and unwillingness to take any responsibility for the sustainability of the land, the people or the future. |
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