Examples of using Wrong-headed in English and their translations into Portuguese
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Judge Abrams' decision to remand was simply wrong-headed.
Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology.
We need more European thinking instead of wrong-headed national egotism.
We cannot simply forge ahead with something that in the past has shown itself to be inappropriate and wrong-headed.
The idea that we can shut down globalization,reduce trade… is wrong-headed,' Obama said on a conference call.
Comrades, as wrong-headed as many of its policies are, the IWW is a revolutionary union and the American Federation of Labor is not.
The aim of the amendment is to put a stop to such things, and I regard this as wrong-headed.
Specifically, Volkogonov felt that Yeltsin was taking"the advice of wrong-headed counselors" in deciding to invade Chechnya.
In any case, calls for One Big Movement, united around a simple common platform with the broadest possible appeal,are fundamentally wrong-headed.
Giving birth to a snake is not only suicide,it's probably the most wrong-headed thing ever attempted in the field of human endeavor.
I have to tell Mrs Hieronymi that I regard her report as politically wrong-headed.
Decades of wrong-headed policies and the impact of multiple policy failures have inevitably highlighted the role of the state and how important it is.
I have given it some considerable thought, andI have decided that this quest of yours is wrong-headed and most likely to prove fatal.
Thirdly, it is quite wrong-headed of us to want to meet the challenge presented by the sugar reform by allowing the developing countries to produce bioethanol.
Yet Msgr. Guerra expresses no such reservation, butalleges that we have"nothing to fear" from wrong-headed leadership that suddenly blesses what the Church always condemned.
So the Bundesbank's self-righteous zeal in asserting that its responsibilities are somehow graver- andmore binding- than those of other central banks is dangerously wrong-headed.
I am mindful, Mr. Cromwell,that there are some people some wrong-headed, some biased people are still unwilling to accept the validity of my marriage to the queen.
They happened as a result of wrong-headed policy, in particular the idea that governments could pick winners, and that governments should control the economy and make things happen through reallocating resources.
The exchange controls and subsidies,"government monopolies, price controls, and Soviet-style economic planning",which Hanke calls"wrong-headed", are not the cause of inflation, but a way for the government to keep it under control.
The attribution of guilt to one party is just as wrong-headed as, for example, making wild birds responsible for the spread of this disease, for which science has shown and demonstrated other causes.
The impression I get from some parts of today's resolution is that it will not do that, andI see it as simply wrong-headed to make reference, in a resolution on a matter of urgent importance, to a World Cup that is to be held in 2010.
I believe that this sends a very important message in response to calls- which I regard as wrong-headed- for the European Union, in future, to be less exacting in its political criteria in terms of the war on poverty and the advancement of development.
But, I think, maybe some of our people are more interested in getting the military technology, andI think that's wrong-headed, and that's one of the things that we are going to have to change, because we're going to have to work together, all of us, everywhere on the planet.
Not because we do not acknowledge the importance and rightness of responding to the phenomena of fundamentalism,but because of the twisted and wrong-headed way in which the report tackles the question,' pinning it' on the Arab world, confusing it with Islam and disregarding its political, social and cultural causes.