“This looks shortsightedly self-serving: it is a sop from Lula to his party's left-wing, which disagrees with his economic policies.”

“And, having shortsightedly kept Turkey out of the European Union, the West is scarcely qualified to complain.”

“This situation is not helped, however, by the Communist propaganda against political meetings and demonstrations, which it shortsightedly denigrates as wasting time, when in reality these are a schooling in democracy.”

“It short-sightedly looks to the European Central Bank to emancipate it from oppressive regulation.”

“Curators who short-sightedly shut themselves up in their offices withtheir collections must be replaced by men of action.”

“Competitiveness between national airlines should not be short-sightedly impaired to the cost of the cut-price carriers.”