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How to use the word unwise in a Sentence?

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It is unwise to be too wise, yet not wise to be unwise

Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

It is prudent to avoid foolishness, but unwise to lack wisdom.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

They expect to meet the candidates, shake their hands and look them in the eye, that’s the beauty of the first-in-the-nation caucus. It would be unwise to overlook the power of retail politics here.

Jeanita McNulty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I walked into one of the first( CFP) meetings when we were looking at the format and said, ‘ If we want to expand to eight teams for the playoff with no automatic bids, I ’ll have that conversation, ’ but moving to an eight-team playoff and granting what were going to be six automatic bids, reducing at-large access, is unwise.

Southeastern Conference

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ford Foundation's critical to consider the totality of Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans if one is to assess the racial impacts of Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans, it would be unwise to extrapolate from an analysis of savings preferences to the whole tax system.

Mihir Desai

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is unwise for one to think that a hen will ever be accorded respect in the land of the hawks.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

So it is a farce, it is unconstitutional. But more than anything it's unwise, and going to divide the country. they can't let go of President Trump and they're going to keep kicking and kicking and kicking.

Rand Paul

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The actions of Derrick Evan were unwise and unbecoming of an elected official.

Chairwoman Melody Potter

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Regardless of what my study is saying and whether to trust my science, I do think it's unwise to roll back regulatory pollution standards at a time when we know there is a virus that is attacking the lungs.

Francesca Dominici

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In the politics of the present, where we are into politics of name calling and insult... I think it's probably unwise for The BBC to get ourselves into a position where we're calling out people for being liars or being racist, what is really important is that we look at the things that people say, that we analyze them, that we describe them objectively and as analytically as we can and we call them out for what they are at the time.

David Jordan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is unlikely that policymakers will impose a level on themselves, having got the psychological seven out of the way, it took some effort to (do that)... while avoiding any big capital outflows and market swings, so it would be unwise to self-impose another level.

Frances Cheung

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This has proven to be very unwise given the circumstances, and this huge degree of fear and anxiety amongst people of Hong Kong vis-à-vis the mainland of China, which we were not sensitive enough to feel and grasp.

Carrie Lam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are waking up in 2018 figuring out that the protectionist rhetoric from the summer of 2016 is real. It is a real underlying philosophy of this administration so I don't think it is unwise to position accordingly, we don't think there are any winners in a trade war, but it a question of who the relative losers are - small caps lose less.

Lori Calvasina

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The president would be mistaken to interpret today’s decision as a greenlight to continue his unwise and un-American policies, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly said, not everything that is constitutional is good policy. The travel ban is atrocious policy, and makes us less safe and undermines our American ideals.

Neal Katyal

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Sixteen years is very unwise to let war happen on auto-pilot.

Tim Kaine

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's no coincidence that the Sessions memo was quietly signed on the same day the President was making major headlines for firing FBI Director Comey because of his investigation of Trump — this policy is unjust and unwise and can't withstand even minimal public scrutiny.

Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The wall is, in my view, immoral, expensive, unwise.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He did not promise that he would take food out of the mouths of babies and seniors and education, clean air, clean water, scientific research off the table in a significant way in order for him to pay for his immoral, ineffective, unwise proposal of a wall.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I don’t think it’s necessarily unwise for a business to make a political statement, particularly privately-owned businesses in the fashion sector, said Abby Schreiber, managing editor at Paper Magazine. Fashion has always been about expression, provocation and, not infrequently, politics and, to that end, these designers ’ refusal to dress Melania Trump is not, in and of itself, unusual for this industry. fashion designers have long attempted to tell a story about their brand and vision and to articulate a feeling, emotion or sense of who their customer or ‘ muse ’ is, Schreiber said. And for those designers who are troubled by the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that surrounded Trump’s campaign, it may make sense for them to want to distance their brand and their vision from it. But Robert Casey, President of modeling agency Maggie, Inc., offered a simple solution.

Abby Schreiber

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I feel it is important in a democracy for all voices to be heard, while the Liberty Union Party is not as well established as the major parties, it would be unwise to overlook the candidates that run in statewide elections.

Phil Scott

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There are n’t necessarily consistent loopholes as a result, but in general regulators have not kept pace with the growth of the clinic industries, the general trend however seems to be toward requiring less data before the experimental stem cells are sold to patients, which I think is unwise.

Paul Knoepfler

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Middle-aged and younger adults have complained about how disrespectful younger generations were, how risque they were, how immoral they were, how lazy they were, or how unwise they were – this is sort of the natural order of things, however, the millennial generation is the first real generation to face that criticism in the digital age, where hot takes and instant opinions are ubiquitous.

Joshua Grubbs

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For the moment we are not in a position to begin substantive negotiations immediately and therefore it would be unwise to start the process ticking by triggering Article 50.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We think (a cut) would be unwise at this stage - Turkey is facing some inflation issues, the good performance of the lira is also a function of the carry, and maintaining a carry is a good thing for the lira and the a good thing for inflation.

Murat Toprak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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