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One way to avoid chaotic and ill-considered trade and monetary policies is to keep any one person from being able to change them at will.
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The Editors, National Review, 22 Apr. 2025
The blanket granting of parole without any significant recognition or consideration of the suffering of the victims is at best ill-considered.
—Timothy J. Cruz, Boston Herald, 2 Feb. 2025
But there’s another Holocaust-adjacent entertainment that was arguably even more ill-considered, and actually shown to unwitting audiences.
—Bruce Handy, airmail.news, 7 Sep. 2024
Then American leaders threw away their political and moral advantages with a series of counterproductive and ill-considered decisions, squandering the early success in Afghanistan and creating a quagmire there.
—Michael A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
Even without getting into the egregious stuff, there are plenty of smaller-scale regulations that could certainly be argued to exceed statutory authority or otherwise be ill-considered or overly burdensome.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2024
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The Editors, National Review, 22 Apr. 2025
The blanket granting of parole without any significant recognition or consideration of the suffering of the victims is at best ill-considered.
—Timothy J. Cruz, Boston Herald, 2 Feb. 2025
But there’s another Holocaust-adjacent entertainment that was arguably even more ill-considered, and actually shown to unwitting audiences.
—Bruce Handy, airmail.news, 7 Sep. 2024
Then American leaders threw away their political and moral advantages with a series of counterproductive and ill-considered decisions, squandering the early success in Afghanistan and creating a quagmire there.
—Michael A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
Even without getting into the egregious stuff, there are plenty of smaller-scale regulations that could certainly be argued to exceed statutory authority or otherwise be ill-considered or overly burdensome.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2024
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“Ill-considered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ill-considered. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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