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If you look at the unconscionable actions of Putin, weaponizing energy, amplified by the short-sighted and misguided decision by OPEC+ recently, then sure, having the [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] there for potential release is an important tool. – Jared Bernstein	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our colleague is not trying to conclude an unending discussion that he cannot stop, he’s trying to short-circuit a debate that he cannot win, this is just the kind of short-sighted power grab this body was actually built to stop. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think human nature is to overreact, personally. It's sort of short-sighted and you just see the feeling that you have at the moment, right now, what is it, best three out of five now ? We went from best four out of seven -- now, it's best three out of five. – Dusty Baker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If someone is going to run in a district like this based off of one vote on a person that lost the district, everyone who supports that type of mentality has literally given up the opportunity to win a seat and put someone in a spot that could actually fight for them and do what's right for the district, if their only issue is one vote, that's a pretty short-sighted mentality. – David Valadao	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's no secret that Disney is releasing films like Black Widow directly onto Disney + to increase subscribers and thereby boost the company's stock price — and that it's hiding behind Covid-19 as a pretext to do so, but ignoring the contracts of the artists responsible for the success of its films in furtherance of this short-sighted strategy violates their rights and we look forward to proving as much in court. – John Berlinski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In cases that involve victims of corporate human rights abuses, business-versus-consumer cases, and family law -- in those cases, the party that has more financial resources may try to introduce arguments about which country should be hearing the case, and whether a UK court judgment can be enforced, i think that the Commission's being short sighted by treating this solely as a way to withhold a favor from the UK, because this doesn't just negatively affect the UK, it will affect EU nationals too. – Zach Meyers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That’s on the mayor and that’s on every single alderman who didn’t pay attention when they passed a budget last October that clearly had only $100 million set aside for police back-pay, which was pretty short-sighted, since the Fire Department got the same amount. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Tonight I want to remind Donald Trump that I see right through Donald Trump, the American people see right through Donald Trump. Tonight we reject short sighted policies that work for the wealthy and powerful few but leave the worker and the immigrant behind. – Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The short-sighted rate in Hong Kong is the highest in the world. So, mostly everyone has small protection - glasses, this is not a perfect measure, but can let you prevent from the droplet transmission to a certain extent. – Gabriel Leung	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I would like America to continue to strive to achieve the challenging and inspiring goal of landing astronauts on Mars, and if the Moon is an essential interim step, then I would support going there too, however, I am not prepared to cannibalize the rest of NASA's program or force the agency into taking foolhardy risks or making short-sighted plans simply to meet an arbitrary deadline. – Eddie Bernice Johnson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When I was a prosecutor, the law behind possession was a felony, we would use the hammer under the law of a felony. We would force someone into treatment and upon successful treatment, the felony would be dismissed. Now look what we have as a result of ridiculous short-sighted liberalization of drug use. – Todd Spitzer	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government—this escalation is short-sighted and will lead to more dead civilians, more refugees, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and a direct confrontation between the United States and Russia—which could lead to nuclear war, this Administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning. – Tulsi Gabbard	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
That( share reaction) is a bit short-sighted. This year will be strong but the following years are uncertain. We don't know what will happen to the U.S. tax break, and reference margins will be under pressure. – Rasmus Skand	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Today, due to capital controls, they cannot do it. But this is short sighted because at some point capital controls will be lifted. – Theodore Krintas	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
These attacks against Secretary Castro are completely unfounded, short sighted, and only serve to pit us against each other. – Cristobal Alex	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
For someone like Trump or Cruz to say they are going to send them all back is short-sighted because so much of our food supply is dependent on their labor. – Mike McMahon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They're all playing into the anger. We had a pretty successful year last year and Republican presidential candidates telling Republican voters that the Republican Congress is the problem I think is exceptionally short sighted. – Tom Cole	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What does lasting value mean in a society that is only interested in immediate results? How should we judge a community that simply takes short term projects in account and merely looks at a short-sighted horizon? In point of fact, a clear vision goes beyond a misty horizon. Through its mental dimension, the quality of vision stands out to the sheer physical, geographical or time-based horizon. ("Horizon and Vision" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
The New South Wales government has failed to create balanced and common sense policy that protects villages, the wine-industry and endangered bushland from coal mining, this short-sighted mining-at-any-cost policy is costing us a thriving, diverse and sustainable economic future for the region. – Georgina Woods	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We raise the cases of individuals like Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, and Pu Zhiqiang, who are unjustly detained, china's increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly -- including their visa restrictions on American journalists -- are not only wrong ; they are short-sighted. She also criticized the draft foreign NGO law that China is considering, which she said would threaten. – Muslim Uighurs	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I know that some people question why we host China at all. That's a dangerous and short-sighted view, if we sought to punish China by canceling meetings or refusing to engage them, we would only be punishing ourselves. – Susan Rice	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is unfolding before the eyes of short-sighted European leaders who prioritize securing borders over helping survivors of conflict. – Amnesty International deputy director	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is not just a Greek tragedy, but a Europe-wide crisis, it is unfolding before the eyes of short-sighted European leaders who prioritize securing borders over helping survivors of conflict. – Amnesty International deputy director	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The time of ill-considered pacifism and short-sighted neglect of the defense issues have now receded into the past. – President Petro Poroshenko	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

If you look at the unconscionable actions of Putin, weaponizing energy, amplified by the short-sighted and misguided decision by OPEC+ recently, then sure, having the [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] there for potential release is an important tool.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our colleague is not trying to conclude an unending discussion that he cannot stop, he’s trying to short-circuit a debate that he cannot win, this is just the kind of short-sighted power grab this body was actually built to stop.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think human nature is to overreact, personally. It's sort of short-sighted and you just see the feeling that you have at the moment, right now, what is it, best three out of five now ? We went from best four out of seven -- now, it's best three out of five.

– Dusty Baker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If someone is going to run in a district like this based off of one vote on a person that lost the district, everyone who supports that type of mentality has literally given up the opportunity to win a seat and put someone in a spot that could actually fight for them and do what's right for the district, if their only issue is one vote, that's a pretty short-sighted mentality.

– David Valadao

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's no secret that Disney is releasing films like Black Widow directly onto Disney + to increase subscribers and thereby boost the company's stock price — and that it's hiding behind Covid-19 as a pretext to do so, but ignoring the contracts of the artists responsible for the success of its films in furtherance of this short-sighted strategy violates their rights and we look forward to proving as much in court.

– John Berlinski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In cases that involve victims of corporate human rights abuses, business-versus-consumer cases, and family law -- in those cases, the party that has more financial resources may try to introduce arguments about which country should be hearing the case, and whether a UK court judgment can be enforced, i think that the Commission's being short sighted by treating this solely as a way to withhold a favor from the UK, because this doesn't just negatively affect the UK, it will affect EU nationals too.

– Zach Meyers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That’s on the mayor and that’s on every single alderman who didn’t pay attention when they passed a budget last October that clearly had only $100 million set aside for police back-pay, which was pretty short-sighted, since the Fire Department got the same amount.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Tonight I want to remind Donald Trump that I see right through Donald Trump, the American people see right through Donald Trump. Tonight we reject short sighted policies that work for the wealthy and powerful few but leave the worker and the immigrant behind.

– Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The short-sighted rate in Hong Kong is the highest in the world. So, mostly everyone has small protection - glasses, this is not a perfect measure, but can let you prevent from the droplet transmission to a certain extent.

– Gabriel Leung

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I would like America to continue to strive to achieve the challenging and inspiring goal of landing astronauts on Mars, and if the Moon is an essential interim step, then I would support going there too, however, I am not prepared to cannibalize the rest of NASA's program or force the agency into taking foolhardy risks or making short-sighted plans simply to meet an arbitrary deadline.

– Eddie Bernice Johnson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When I was a prosecutor, the law behind possession was a felony, we would use the hammer under the law of a felony. We would force someone into treatment and upon successful treatment, the felony would be dismissed. Now look what we have as a result of ridiculous short-sighted liberalization of drug use.

– Todd Spitzer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government—this escalation is short-sighted and will lead to more dead civilians, more refugees, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and a direct confrontation between the United States and Russia—which could lead to nuclear war, this Administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning.

– Tulsi Gabbard

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

That( share reaction) is a bit short-sighted. This year will be strong but the following years are uncertain. We don't know what will happen to the U.S. tax break, and reference margins will be under pressure.

– Rasmus Skand

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Today, due to capital controls, they cannot do it. But this is short sighted because at some point capital controls will be lifted.

– Theodore Krintas

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These attacks against Secretary Castro are completely unfounded, short sighted, and only serve to pit us against each other.

– Cristobal Alex

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For someone like Trump or Cruz to say they are going to send them all back is short-sighted because so much of our food supply is dependent on their labor.

– Mike McMahon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They're all playing into the anger. We had a pretty successful year last year and Republican presidential candidates telling Republican voters that the Republican Congress is the problem I think is exceptionally short sighted.

– Tom Cole

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What does lasting value mean in a society that is only interested in immediate results? How should we judge a community that simply takes short term projects in account and merely looks at a short-sighted horizon? In point of fact, a clear vision goes beyond a misty horizon. Through its mental dimension, the quality of vision stands out to the sheer physical, geographical or time-based horizon. ("Horizon and Vision" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The New South Wales government has failed to create balanced and common sense policy that protects villages, the wine-industry and endangered bushland from coal mining, this short-sighted mining-at-any-cost policy is costing us a thriving, diverse and sustainable economic future for the region.

– Georgina Woods

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We raise the cases of individuals like Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, and Pu Zhiqiang, who are unjustly detained, china's increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly -- including their visa restrictions on American journalists -- are not only wrong ; they are short-sighted. She also criticized the draft foreign NGO law that China is considering, which she said would threaten.

– Muslim Uighurs

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I know that some people question why we host China at all. That's a dangerous and short-sighted view, if we sought to punish China by canceling meetings or refusing to engage them, we would only be punishing ourselves.

– Susan Rice

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is unfolding before the eyes of short-sighted European leaders who prioritize securing borders over helping survivors of conflict.

– Amnesty International deputy director

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is not just a Greek tragedy, but a Europe-wide crisis, it is unfolding before the eyes of short-sighted European leaders who prioritize securing borders over helping survivors of conflict.

– Amnesty International deputy director

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The time of ill-considered pacifism and short-sighted neglect of the defense issues have now receded into the past.

– President Petro Poroshenko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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