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  1. badly planned or designed

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An ill-conceived promotional video, mentioned by Dr. Hossenfelder, doesn't mean that the research it describes is ill conceived.
The ANC called the motion "ill-conceived" and defended Zuma's record.
You can finally take back your ill-conceived messages on Facebook.
President Barack Obama finally dismantled the ill-conceived program in 2016.
Lee's amendment to stop the funding of this ill-conceived regulation.
But the law was intended to address ill-conceived agency rules.
Now, ill-conceived government action is menacing their success, she said.
There are proven alternatives to Trump's ill-conceived and impulsive tariffs.
Both these actions and rhetoric are extraordinarily reckless and ill-conceived.
But other experts worry creating such a law would be ill-conceived.
In the novel Middlemarch, George Eliot depicts an impulsive and ill-conceived
He suggested his call to Taiwan's president was an ill-conceived move.
All three of these regulations are ill-conceived and expensive policy blunders.
The manufactured controversy is as transparently political as it is ill-conceived.
Democrats would do well to distinguish good results from ill-conceived policies.
The problem is not that these strategies are wrong or ill conceived.
This is an ill-conceived idea, but they're gonna go with it anyway.
The film's internal logic is too ill-conceived, its overall direction too unfocused.
Many analysts predicted these unfortunate consequences of the ill-conceived structure of ObamaCare.
Further, Tillerson's ill-conceived reform of the State Department has caused lasting damage.
"If that is their motivation, it is misguided and ill conceived," said Parker.
They feared an ill-conceived gathering that resulted in failure would be counterproductive.
I trust others will see the wisdom of avoiding this ill-conceived undertaking.
Trump's ill-conceived and poorly thought-out action plays directly into Putin's hands.
"Black Christmas" (2006) horrified critics with its terrible script and ill-conceived plot.
Natalie Portman starred in the ill-conceived film "Lucy in the Sky" (2019).
In essence, Mr. Shkreli demonstrates a tendency to act on ill-conceived perceptions.
The executive order signed by the President is ill-conceived, and misses its target.
Yes. Are there ill-conceived sales that have not thought through potential regulatory issues?
From that standpoint, I can't say that the GamePad was an ill-conceived concept.
Trump's attack on the Iran nuclear deal is if anything even more ill-conceived.
The world is sliding back in time thanks to ill-conceived policies and strategies.
"If that is their motivation, it is misguided and ill conceived," Parker told CNBC.
The commission has succeeded in slowing development of an ill-conceived natural-gas port.
But the whole experience becomes soured when you use Lexus's ill-conceived entertainment system.
It was an attempt, however ill-conceived, to keep his father away from him.
"Following such a course would be ill-conceived and contrary to law," they wrote.
Cohen's antics may go down in the history books as yet another ill-conceived stunt.
Mayer did try mightily, but made some serious errors, ill-conceived acquisitions and boneheaded hires.
I also witnessed the direct impact of ill-conceived policies that made us less safe.
An ill-conceived policy that fosters ill-will certainly does not serve the public interest.
Well-meaning but ill-conceived wars to change odious regimes have sometimes gone badly wrong.
There is a nugget of interesting science at the heart of this ill-conceived movie.
By any standard, the invasion of Iraq was an ill-conceived, ill-prepared, disastrous enterprise.
Mr Duterte's ill-conceived war on drugs will make the Philippines poorer and more violent.
It makes it sound like the defining feature of the Wii U was ill-conceived.
This follows President Trump's ill-conceived travel bans that targeted individuals from Muslim-majority countries.
Let's hope that allegiance to an ill-conceived cinematic universe doesn't actually harm its changes.
Homes across America will light up with ill-conceived and poorly carved jack-o-lanterns.
Yet policymakers should not rush through ill-conceived reforms for the sake of political posturing.
For many in Hollywood, the move from executive to creative is, at best, ill-conceived.
On the right, conservatives condemn the suppression of free speech with equally ill-conceived tactics.
The answer had to do with corruption, weak institutions, and ill-conceived practices by donors.
Perhaps the reaction of some of Trump's opponents to Tuesday night's rally was ill conceived.
Here is where the cannabis story took an awkward, ill-conceived and sometimes ugly turn.
"It was an ill-conceived deal from the start," said a source close to Nissan.
"Your 'Meet the Parents' marketing email is incredibly offensive, outdated and ill-conceived," wrote Leslie Gold.
The project was ill-conceived and showed a lack of understanding of India's culture and values.
Now it is up to Congress to stop this ill-conceived arms deal from going through.
We urge our colleagues to give up on this ill-conceived attempt to block the transition.
As this ill-conceived ruling progresses, small businesses will struggle to mitigate their new considerable liability.
Leadership analysis might give clues MORE as ill-conceived and a waste of American bargaining power.
Thankfully, this ill-conceived entitlement has rescued millions of destitute Americans with no other medical alternatives.
So I regret to announce this ill-conceived and legally dubious promotion has now been cancelled.
They're about to learn just how ill conceived and unpopular the Republican legislative agenda really is.
And continuing to support an ill-conceived proxy war in Yemen does not make America safer.
In general, we ought to obey even ill-conceived laws until we can get them changed.
This makes "any reliance on the curve for expansive [drone] policymaking appear ill-conceived," DJI writes.
While the vetting of our visitors should be taken seriously, this program was ill-conceived, at best.
Until now, we've been lucky; most of the ill-conceived legislation has died on the Senate floor.
Facebook's Free Basics was an ill-conceived effort to bring Internet access to the poor in India.
Which leaves the Hydrogen One as one of the most hyped and ill-conceived phones in years.
His election follows years of ill-conceived economic policies and capital controls that have stifled business activity.
Windows 10 is everything (and more) its ill-conceived predecessor should have been in the first place.
But policies to force opioid tapering as a way to mitigate the opioid crisis are ill-conceived.
Torn went into entertainment with a name that many assumed was a corny, ill-conceived stage name.
Still, the Hawkeyes have a lot of potential, provided Ferentz learned from his team's ill-conceived turtling.
No. You are not going to cloud up our art form with your ill-conceived oral feculence.
Is there no end to ill-conceived military exploits in a faraway land we know nothing about?
But to local preservationists, those efforts have come too late, and in some cases are ill conceived.
"The rule is unconstitutional, without legal authority, and further is ill-conceived policy," the NCLA petition said.
That idea foundered on Reagan's insistence on developing of his ill-conceived Star Wars missile defense system.
Now that the whole situation has come to light, those justifications look confused, ill-conceived, and incomplete.
It "was a defining moment of an ill-conceived and poorly executed convention," one Iowa Democrat said.
Luckily for Trump, Arlovski's ill-conceived flying knee attempt and Fedor's sublime timing spared him that inconvenience.
To write off Russian election interference by boiling down its efforts to purely Facebook ads is ill-conceived.
Regan was fired from HarperCollins and Fox's Rupert Murdoch admitted it was "ill-conceived," according to USA Today.
Critics contend GIFT is a high-profile example of some of Modi's ill-conceived and over-ambitious initiatives.
He called each resolution "ill-conceived" and said it failed to address root causes of conflict in Yemen.
Programs ill-conceived, operated by politically-connected community organizations with little competence or tested strategies to reduce poverty.
But in the end, that can't begin to save this ill-conceived, poorly cast misfire of a biopic.
I do not believe they want it replaced immediately with another ill-conceived gift to the insurance industry.
"ILL-CONCEIVED PLAN" In the mid-2000s, Rathburn launched an ambitious expansion, one that would lead to bankruptcy.
But the American people needn't choose between the failed status-quo and an ill-conceived single-payer plan.
That makes some sense when you think about apps like WakingNews, which seem ill-conceived to begin with.
We would support Canada, a NATO ally and indispensable neighbor, whose statement was neither harsh nor ill-conceived.
This means that environmental groups must urgently cease their ill-conceived and destructive blanket opposition to genetic engineering.
It's not just that his Iraq mission was ill conceived and, unlike Abed's homegrown revolution, a foreign adventure.
Critics contend GIFT is a high-profile example of some of Modi's ill-conceived and over-ambitious initiatives.
To the Editor: Thank goodness this ill-conceived debacle of an impeachment has come to its inevitable end.
S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes.
Businesses have always complained that government regulations increase their costs, and no doubt some regulations are ill-conceived.
But a lot of other stuff has been jammed into the film's blunt, arguably ill-conceived iHorror ad campaign.
Donald Trump will order the construction of his ill-conceived Mexican border wall, White House officials said Tuesday night.
Unforgettable's shallow characterization and ill-conceived resurrection of the offensive "crazy woman" trope does all of us a disservice.
The country is better off with no farm bill at all than one that includes this ill-conceived legislation.
Halfway through "Broadbend, Arkansas," an ill-conceived new musical at the Duke on 13nd Street, an exhale moment arrives.
The Trump administration's actions in this regard are extremely reckless, heartless, ill-conceived and, in some cases, completely illegal.
The Senate recently voted to repeal the ill-conceived FCC rules, and now the House should do the same.
"To me, it's an ill-conceived idea," said Graham, who has been a loyal Trump-backer in the Senate.
This ill-conceived complaint has been leveled at immigrants since the Irish were disembarking their boats in the 1840s.
The checkered history is in large part attributable to vague and ill-conceived statutory language dating from the 1920s.
Ill-conceived policies that disproportionately harm or intentionally discriminate against people of color result in lasting, often irreparable damage.
The country's ill-conceived attempts to answer the shame of colonization went unchecked, barely witnessed by the outside world.
If you want vapid, soul-crushing, slapdash, utterly incomprehensible and ill-conceived entertainments, that's the place to find them.
This work, published as "Dereliction of Duty," lays out the consequences of abetting misguided presidents with ill-conceived policies.
"The policy was so wrongheaded, was so ill-conceived ... he just could not continue to serve," Reed adds.https://t.
This is purely a commercial decision, and an ill-conceived and wildly irresponsible one at that, with serious cultural ramifications.
More than 8,000 shops are shuttering for anti-bias training – an ill-conceived attempt to restore Starbucks' tarnished liberal image.
But his remarkable achievement - and all the work that went into it - was quickly overshadowed by an ill-conceived prank.
To some very loaded topics around domestic violence and abuse, it brings an ill-conceived and poorly delivered central conceit.
Every ill-conceived statement or tweet by Trump is proclaimed as "smoking gun" evidence of this seemingly catch-all crime.
The ill-conceived plan forced industry giants to draw a Maginot line between telecom and tech on consumer navigation devices.
But frankly your "Trump: Rise of The Donald" idea is the most ill-conceived movie pitch I have ever received.
But the unintended effects of an ill-conceived regulation from 2010 may yet hold back much-needed change on pay.
There many reasons why the passage of right to try would be ill conceived and damaging to terminally ill patients.
There was his bloated, stumbling season with the Boston Celtics, firing up ill-conceived three-pointers and barking at ghosts.
Last month, Mr. Musk started and ultimately aborted an ill-conceived attempt to take Tesla off the public stock market.
Pouring more money, and more concrete, into this ill-conceived behemoth, or into other dams, will only delay the inevitable.
It's no wonder big business groups have opened their wallets to ram this partisan and ill-conceived agenda through Congress.
Eager to placate the base, the Democratic Party steamrolled their ill-conceived health insurance plan with absolutely zero Republican support.
It was an ill-conceived experiment, and sometimes experiments end with a plume of smoke and a chemistry teacher shrieking.
It looks, at first glance, to be as ill-conceived as Shure's last attempt at a Bluetooth adapter for MMCX headphones.
In 2012, contestant Kourtney Moon broke her wrist during an ill-conceived challenge that had contestants jumping from a 25-ft.
Neoconservatives have often been accused of being chickenhawks, always ready to send others to die in feckless and ill-conceived wars.
In 2008, his frustration over Hillary's flailing campaign occasionally boiled over into angry or ill-conceived public attacks on then-Sen.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and create a renewable energy economy — as unrealistic, unaffordable and ill-conceived.
These increases, particularly the House's proposal, can help offset the ill-conceived cuts to the military inflicted during the Obama administration.
It is even less clear what lawmakers could do to mitigate that or the other problems with this ill-conceived law.
In arguing for her amendment, Hartzler asserted that the transgender policy was "ill-conceived" and that allowing transgender troops harms readiness.
Szubin's role at the Treasury Department has required him to both promote and defend the Administration's ill-conceived Iran nuclear agreement.
And they continue to show that the action is nothing more than an ill-conceived publicity stunt guised as a lawsuit.
Anonymous articles like this one, from within some "quiet resistance" within the administration, seem ill conceived and wrongheaded in every way.
As neural networks have no concept of fault, a failure of a policy won't be seen as illogical or ill conceived.
The Harris plan is particularly ill conceived because she has not proposed any companion effort to increase the supply of housing.
"The Iran nuclear deal is a disaster, and the United States will no longer certify this ill-conceived agreement," Pence said.
Ill-conceived market rules mean that dirty power plants are still getting paid to keep operating — or just to sit there!
Partition — an exercise in cartography undertaken by an outgoing colonial power and internal political elite — was ill-conceived from the beginning.
None of these other countries seems prepared right now to rush with the US into such an impetuous and ill-conceived action.
Writer Oscar Rickett talks about some of these ill-conceived attempts on this episode of The VICE Guide to Right Now Podcast.
The virals are situated — and are gaining power — at a bucolic estate, where the ill-conceived experimental facility Project Noah is headquartered.
There are some issues — moments where what Javi says doesn't really match the dialogue choice, or the multiple ill-conceived shooting sequences.
In other words, if your resolution is proving too ambitious or downright ill-conceived, here's your chance to break the darn thing.
Dwight Ball, his Liberal successor, calls Muskrat Falls "ill-conceived and reckless" and promises to conduct a forensic audit after it opens.
With its slick new moves, Atlas may just be plotting its revenge for that ill-conceived abuse from its handler last year.
Some big multinational corporations, like GE and Boeing, are waging a dishonest campaign to pass the ill-conceived Border Adjustment Tax (BAT).
The left's current ill-conceived resistance movement compromises our shared belief as Americans that elections are the best way to determine policy.
And that brings me to the ill-conceived idea of heavier trucks, which is another proposal rejected on Capitol Hill in 6900.
It's an ecosystem often characterized by ill-conceived lunges for the brass ring that end up hindering the development of esports ecosystems.
His critics say he is attempting to deflect blame for an ill-conceived austerity plan that the population was unwilling to accept.
They blame the mess partly on the centralization of power in Modi's office and lack of debate, leading to ill-conceived policy.
Programs with such massive returns, especially for those that need it the most should be expanded, not threatened by ill-conceived cuts.
They blame the mess partly on the centralisation of power in Modi's office and lack of debate, leading to ill-conceived policy.
In May 2017, comedian Kathy Griffin did an ill-conceived photo shoot in which she held a bloody replica of Trump's head.
You'll have hours of fun with your friends laughing at the ill-conceived Anthems of strangers, while unseen others laugh at you.
That might yet work if it were simply funnier, if it built momentum from the cascading disaster of the ill-conceived trip.
The disruption narrative drives the allocation of large sums of money — and directing these moneys based on ill-conceived stories is wasteful.
And similar controversies in other schools showed that ill-conceived or outright offensive classroom simulations about slavery continue to be a problem.
As we have seen both in healthcare and energy, passing reckless, ill-conceived massive bills usually create more problems than we solve.
M.B.S. would unlock so much more good will and influence for himself if he curtailed these ill-conceived, Iranian-obsessed foreign adventures.
The ill-conceived action resulted in a long, tragic war that marked Bush's presidency as a failure and fully destabilized the Middle East.
Ukpong (Hubert Point-Du Jour) and Abasiama (Chinasa Ogbuagu), joined in an ill-conceived arranged marriage, are student newlyweds in Houston in 1978.
In "Vice," Christian Bale portrays Cheney as a conniving opportunist who steers Bush into an ill-conceived war in Iraq after the Sept.
But ill-conceived neighborhood-watch platforms can also be breeding grounds for racial profiling, giving people safe (and poorly moderated) spaces to discriminate.
Republicans and gun rights groups called the rule ill conceived, saying it stripped people of their right Second Amendment rights without due process.
It becomes even more maddening when we realize that the public is subsidizing these highly compensated shenanigans through an ill-conceived tax loophole.
By prioritizing an arbitrary and ill-conceived quota over its commitment to truth and other cardinal values, the paper had sown the wind.
Tech company leaders, in particular, have been more vocal in expressing opposition to the move, which many consider ill-conceived and wrong-headed.
Grateful is an overflowing cauldron of contemporary hip-hop that essentially doubles as an ill-conceived extension of Spotify's influential Rap Caviar playlist.
In the veto messages, Trump argued that the resolutions were an "ill-conceived and time-consuming" way to address concerns about the war.
It was before Apple had revealed the iPad, and before TechCrunch had finished the ill-fated (and let's be honest, ill-conceived) CrunchPad.
But even if some in the West try to desperately cling on to these ill-conceived stereotypes, the new generation is moving on.
Himes wrote at a furious pace but struggled mightily with finances, squandering fellowships, signing ill-conceived contracts with publishers and reneging on debts.
However, when you look at the facts, this project is ill-conceived, a poor fit for Texas, and a raw deal for taxpayers.
When I bungled my very first loaf, there was none of the backlash and public shaming I'd get for an ill-conceived tweet.
Consumers are likely to be the losers in the rush to adopt a potpourri of ill-conceived new regulations before time runs out.
"This survey was ill-conceived on many levels," wrote Liberal Arts College Dean Josh Hochschild in an email obtained by The Mountain Echo.
It began with Jill Stein's ill-conceived recount, a more than $7 million boondoggle that ended up netting more votes for the President-elect.
"Our view is that despite likely additional volatility and more ups and downs, the ill-conceived trade war with China is ending," he wrote.
During the same month, Chip Harter, the U.S. Treasury's top international tax official, said digital levies were "ill conceived" and discriminatory against U.S. businesses.
Nor can the world afford the decades it takes to negotiate any replacements to these treaties so hastily scrapped in such ill-conceived fashion.
The attack on human rights accelerated in 2015, driven by the ill-conceived reaction of many governments to national security threats, real or perceived.
The administration has decided to tout its tax reform proposal as "the biggest of all time," but it is also irresponsible and ill-conceived.
Fuchs seems to be offering no more than a limp handshake of a project with idealistic visions, all presented under an ill-conceived title.
The last album he made before that hiatus, 22000's Encore, was an ill-conceived mess that marked the end of his cultural chokehold.
This full moon finds you releasing all sorts of preconceived or ill-conceived notions, and you find freedom when you're released from a burden.
Some of the biggest schemes, including a planned 40-km shipping canal parallel to the Bosphorus, have been criticized as ill-conceived and wasteful.
Pro-growth progressives should stand up and fight this ill-conceived attempt to make dogmatic opposition to trade agreements a new political loyalty test.
H.R. 22019 is perhaps the most ill-conceived of all anti-SLAPP measures, and would apply to a wide range of civil cases nationwide.
Somehow, Donald Trump has managed, with a single, desperate and ill-conceived stroke, to sever the United States from the rest of the world.
Or, like America's sensor-scattering spree in the Vietnamese jungle in the 1960s, such schemes could wind up as expensive and ill-conceived failures.
Playing to these same die-hard supporters is also the only explanation for the president's most ill-conceived, counterproductive policy toward the Western Hemisphere.
He added, "the whole idea of the cruise ship quarantine was ill-conceived, and the resultant slew of infections it spawned was completely predictable."
Curiosity feels like it's outside your control, and trying to direct it sounds as ill conceived as forcing yourself to find a joke funny.
A lot of voices around the league seem to think it's a necessity, but this obsession seems ill-conceived, especially when talking about Dallas.
"The whole idea of the cruise ship quarantine was ill-conceived, and the resultant slew of infections it spawned was completely predictable," he added. 
In a long overdue reversal, on Wednesday the Trump administration announced that it had disbanded its ill-conceived Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
"The whole idea of the cruise ship quarantine was ill-conceived, and the resultant slew of infections it spawned was completely predictable," Adalja said.
In 1958, Mao embarked on the Great Leap Forward, an ill-conceived dream to leapfrog Western countries through a series of rash economic policies.
And consider TNT, which, however ill conceived the experiment, had a series of N.B.A. games this season that were broadcast solely by former players.
To that end, the studies are easy enough to ignore—annoying flak that disappears from your mind as quickly as an ill-conceived tweet.
Photo: GettyGoPro is reportedly laying off 200 to 300 employees this week, according to TechCrunch, gutting the division that produced its ill-conceived Karma drone.
This being Twitter, the trolls — both sincere and otherwise — quickly pounced, long before the social-media mavens at TED Talk ended the ill-conceived experiment.
While plenty of apps use gamification strategies, those strategies tend to be ill-conceived, based on standard economics and the idea that people are rational.
But what really sets this snuff film apart from the hate mail we're so desensitized to is the ill-conceived shock factor of it all.
Newmont was rushing into an "ill-conceived" merger and should stop to consider Barrick's unsolicited "but clearly superior" bid, said Mark Bristow, Barrick's chief executive.
This line of attack compounded his previous misstep -- an ill-conceived and downright un-American proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
"I've always thought that [Trump is] exposed on policy -- not the size of his hands, but the ill-conceived nature of his policies," said Sen.
"Today's passage of an ill-conceived resolution on Israeli settlements marks another shameful chapter in the bizarre anti-Israel history of the United Nations," Sen.
The Communist Party tightly controls discourse on the 1958-61 Great Leap Forward, in which millions starved to death due to ill-conceived economic policies.
To counter such threats, the U.S. military is scrambling to weaponize space on a scale not seen since Ronald Reagan's ill-conceived missile defense system.
Direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians cannot be replaced by ill-conceived international proposals that hope to impose a solution on Israel's democratically elected government.
It's worth examining the big myths they are peddling about the Affordable Care Act and also their ill-conceived plans of what might replace it.
Less than a fortnight into the United States' second round of military intervention in Libya, the escalation of this ill-conceived project is already underway.
"This step allows us to come to terms with the ill-conceived legacy of Meciar amnesties," leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico said before the vote.
Estimates vary slightly, but this ill-conceived tax hike would yield between $15 and $20 billion in additional federal revenue over the next ten years.
His 2008 campaign rollout was marred by ill-conceived comments about Barack Obama ("the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean").
That plan was ill-conceived and ended in defeat after Russia escalated its military backing of the government of President Bashar al-Assad in 2015.
"Global Times also cited a spokesperson as describing the event as an "ill-conceived activity aimed to pray for pork prices to take a dive.
At 52, Kidman has had to negotiate so much tabloid coverage, and so many ill-conceived parts, for audiences to finally admit to her greatness.
As enthusiastic and ill-conceived as any r/stephenking theory thread, In the Tall Grass circa 2019 plays more like fan fiction than an adaptation.
In any case, this ill-conceived plan is destined to put the girls in even greater danger than they would have faced from the Blitz.
Add in what was obviously an ill-conceived and poorly executed plan for implementing the administration's "zero tolerance" policy, and you have dramatically compounded the error.
There's an entire graveyard of failed Samsung services and software, including the ill-conceived Milk Music and Milk Video and countless gimmicky camera and interface features.
Yet game makers have been trying to get people to embrace AR for decades, and no attempt was more ill conceived than Tiger Electronic's R-Zone.
The Twitter response to the ill-conceived idea to basically turn homeless people into WiFi hotspots caused the charity behind the idea to abandon their plan.
Or is it a series of erratic, emotionally driven, ill-conceived outbursts that is likely to do more harm than good to US and global security?
The company also flubbed its handling of brands' pages, banning all Google business profiles in an ill-conceived fashion — something it later admitted was a mistake.
While Rick's away, the mice will play — and by play, we mean embark on various ill-conceived suicide missions to try and get revenge on Negan.
When confronted by the panel host with the fact that the marching youth did, in fact, "take action," Santorum doubled down on his ill-conceived critique.
In terms of sheer quality, the X-Files comics from IDW Publishing far surpass the ill-conceived mini-series that re-ramped on FOX last year.
The report delivers damning insight into then Prime Minister Blair's decision to go to war, which is described by the report as hasty and ill-conceived.
Ultimately, the best weapon for beating back the ill-conceived rhetoric of the Yoshiaki Nishimuras of the world is more movies made by more diverse filmmakers.
" • "For critics, it represents an ill-conceived and impractical attempt to redirect the rewards earned by the most productive and inventive entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.
Though he's gutted the State Department in an ill-conceived reform effort, Tillerson is also one of the most dovish members of Trump's foreign policy team.
Unfortunately, when policymakers succumb to illusion — when what they "know" simply isn't so — they're prone to pursue policies that range from ill-conceived to downright dangerous.
For critics, it represents an ill-conceived and impractical attempt to redirect the rewards earned by the most productive and inventive entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.
It doesn't matter how ill-conceived their dreams are, or how hawkish they can be around others—you still find yourself rooting for these oddball characters.
The earliest and largest, the 4,600-square-foot National Farmer's Bank in Owatonna, was restored to something much like the original after several ill-conceived remodels.
And buybacks can be a more productive use of money than companies just sitting on a pile of cash or wasting it on ill-conceived acquisitions.
Others said the diplomatic meeting in Brussels was similarly ill conceived, and they expressed frustration that the legislative efforts in Congress were not progressing quickly enough.
His efforts to reshape the federal judiciary, lead a broad-based economic revival and renegotiate ill-conceived trade deals have been well received by hardworking Americans.
In 6900, while China celebrated its 2628th anniversary, tens of millions of people were on the brink of starvation under Mao's ill-conceived Great Leap Forward.
A thoroughly partisan, ill-conceived and ill-considered bill, slapped together without the input of experts or stakeholders, done not to improve the health care system.
Michael McCain of Maple Leaf Foods blamed ill-conceived plans for diversions and "a narcissist in Washington" for the deaths of Canadians, including a colleague's family.
Hopefully the secretary will think through her position again and come to the conclusion that what she said was both ill-conceived and ill-timed. Hopefully.
Returning the joint employer standard to its traditional definition would provide much needed clarity and helpfully sidestep the economic pitfalls affiliated with this ill-conceived decision.
While Capcom patched that up a while ago, the recent bit of ill-conceived anti-cheat seems to be geared at any future attempts at exploits.
The Kremlin also placed the blame for Iran's partial withdrawal on Washington's "ill-conceived steps" to pressure Tehran, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said during a Wednesday press briefing.
Hassett said he believed most market participants believed that rate hike in December was ill-conceived, but he then said it's his job to criticize the Fed.
It's as ill-conceived as 2016's abortive Google Spaces, but I see it as more pernicious because there's a danger of people actually using Super Chats.
And Charlotte Rampling's ill-conceived comments about race pretty much burned through the warm fuzzies generated by her standout performance in "45 Years" and subsequent academy nomination.
It had to be closed down a number of times after its opening and a committee of lawmakers later said it was "ill-conceived and ill-executed".
Plenty of other critics did as well, but many women who wrote about the show found the sequence troubling at best, and deeply ill-conceived at worst.
"Our perspective is that this is a very serious public safety concern, but this bill is ill-conceived and not tailored to the problem," Hirose told Motherboard.
It's the Super Bowl for nerds — a place where the future is unveiled alongside a pile of the most ill-conceived, useless crap humans can dream up.
Not satisfied with President Trump's ill-conceived decision to inflict an expanded global gag rule overseas, Pence is attempting to usher in the harmful policy at home.
Occasionally you might receive some truly inappropriate, ill-conceived, or tacky presents—items that make you wonder if the gift-giver has ever even met you before.
Bush's rhetoric and the worldview it represented helped set the stage for the invasion of Iraq, one of the most ill-conceived, disastrous wars in U.S. history.
The Trump administration's plan to abolish the federal government's human resources agency, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is a reckless, ill-conceived, and potentially dangerous idea.
In an effort to "protect" undocumented immigrants from law enforcement over some ill-conceived perception that we "target" this undocumented population, they've also created "sanctuary" for criminals.
The ban on pacifiers is ill-conceived, considering that research shows they don't decrease breastfeeding rates, but they do decrease the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
Ending TPS for Hondurans living in the U.S., with the threat of mass deportations in this volatile context, is an ill-conceived maneuver that imperils regional security.
There's a skit—a callback to Em's earlier work—where his manager, Paul Rosenberg, leaves a voicemail warning that an album responding to critics seems ill-conceived.
For that reason, more than 200 child welfare, juvenile justice and child development organizations signed a letter demanding that the Trump administration abandon this ill-conceived policy.
"This factional fever and incoherent, ill-conceived process has finally ended and the President has rightfully been acquitted," Ms. Trump tweeted after the Senate impeachment trial ended.
Kenneth Lipper, a former Port Authority board member appointed by Mr. Cuomo, said the AirTrain was among the "most ill-conceived projects" that he's experienced in government.
"When the NEPA process is cut short or weakened, ill-conceived projects advance that can have devastating public health and environmental consequences for all Americans," said Rep.
"When the NEPA process is cut short or weakened, ill-conceived projects advance that can have devastating public health and environmental consequences for all Americans," said Rep.
ELLA PETERSON, Moorestown, N.J. I will remember President Obama as the man who caused enormous financial hardship to my family through the ill-conceived Affordable Care Act.
In the hastily stapled annals of less-than-stellar ideas, The Blend belongs aside other ill-conceived attempts to stake out a middle-ground best left unoccupied.
To date, the Interior secretary has ignored calls to discard this ill-conceived reorganization plan that seems destined to waste money, undermine morale and disempower the BLM.
Under this view, the basic structure of Obamacare — which taxes the rich to purchase reasonably generous coverage for the poor — is ill-conceived and should be reversed.
To impose even greater costs, the U.S. should push Germany to suspend the ill-conceived Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
Jill Carey Hall, the firm's small cap expert, warns the widely held perception they're insulated from the effects is ill-conceived — adding fundamentals in the space remain challenged.
The presence of Osuna, the Taubman tirade and a series of ill-conceived responses over the flap has made it hard for some fans to embrace the Astros.
Uncontrolled, ill-conceived and poorly managed, such collisions could, of course, implode, explode or otherwise have negative results — but let's apply some positive thinking and imagine the possibilities.
But aside from being lazy and ill-conceived, what's most disappointing about Conway's cries of "sexism" is that it's the opposite lesson she used to give young women.
Then, the FCC pivoted away from physics and toward politics in making an ill-conceived decision that fundamentally endangered aviation safety and the operation of vital military equipment.
The Trumpworld-skewering cold opens, once a weekly highlight, have fallen off a cliff and now more resemble a burning wreckage of forced wisecracks and ill-conceived ideas.
His schemes have always been ill-conceived, but the easily debunked nature of the Mueller accuser fiasco speaks to a young man completely out of touch with reality.
As the above example shows, ill-conceived anti-SLAPP laws can fatally stall cases without requiring the defendant to show that the case is in fact a SLAPP.
Too reactive, as reflected by the ill-conceived video she released shortly before the midterm elections to try to quell doubts about her claim to Native American ancestry?
An ill-conceived data-collection process, dramatic reductions in Medicare, and a one-two punch rate cut for Medicaid lab services is not the outcome that Congress intended.
Consequently, they help the two main parties to project the public dissent against economic issues to the ill-conceived notion of the 'big government' rather than against capitalism.
They have the resiliency of Wile E. Coyote, picking themselves up after each failed plot backfires and redoubling their efforts to destroy their foe with ill-conceived plans.
Josh Jensen, 35, a Border Patrol agent from southeastern Arizona, said he thinks Trump's plan to build a wall is ill-conceived and is voting for Johnson too.
"We welcome the Court's order dismissing these ill-conceived cases and we will continue to vigorously defend ourselves against all other similar claims," said BP spokesman Geoff Morrell.
That ill-conceived move was applauded by John Bolton, Mr. Trump's national security adviser and one of the arms control resisters who are now ascendant in the administration.
The episode, inspired by a real story one of his Atlanta friends had told about an ill-conceived Thanksgiving promotion, involved throwing live turkeys out of a helicopter.
WASHINGTON — She told the Fox News host Sean Hannity that refusing to celebrate President Trump's America was "unforgivable" and tweeted angrily about the "ill-conceived" Senate impeachment trial.
Conservative Republicans are unhappy that too much of this ill-conceived statute will remain in place, given the Medicaid explosion, and the near collapse of the individual exchanges.
"I regret to announce this ill-conceived and legally dubious promotion has now been canceled," the artist, whose work often features a political edge, said in a statement.
Building in flood-prone areas and "ill-conceived" land reclamation projects should be stopped, he said, adding that some cities should consider moving key assets to safer places.
A year later, the Saudi regime continues to suffer the consequences of its persecution of opponents — especially women seeking greater rights — and its ill-conceived intervention in Yemen.
The use of biotechnology in forests, as the National Academies is examining, is yet another ill-conceived human intervention likely to add to, not alleviate, forest health crises.
Based on the look of things, this iconic Oz character was brought to life for this ill-conceived sequel via some grouchy props guys and a lumpy costume.
Over the last few years, a series of ill-conceived laws, harmful policies and bad court decisions have decimated the framework established by the Constitution to protect inventions.
Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, aimed mostly at China because of its dominance in producing these raw materials, demonstrates just how the President's ill-conceived strategy has backfired.
Your ill-conceived notion of what our Second Amendment rights mean is the problem, because you're too stupid to interpret it correctly -- you know, the way they do.
Ted Cruz's plan, which includes a dangerous and ill-conceived promise to abolish the IRS, isn't any less extreme, and would slash revenues by $8.6 trillion over 10 years.
The videos of these exchanges are peaceful, lacking the frenetic rush of Frank and his dad jokes, his ill-conceived tricks, his uncomfortably cruel need for media-friendly spectacle.
Featuring witnesses representing the nine million Americans living abroad, the hearing will dramatize how this ill-conceived edict has turned law-abiding, middle-class citizens into virtual financial lepers.
"In the weeks to come, the House and Senate will use the Congressional Review Act to repeal as many job-killing and ill-conceived regulations as possible," McCarthy wrote.
President Trump end his destructive habit of tweeted or making ill-conceived and false accusations — and hope his friends and staff are formally exonerated when all investigations are complete.
Your administration can assure greater consumer choice when it comes to flood insurance; instruct federal lending regulators not to issue their ill-conceived proposed regulation on private flood insurance.
Unfortunately, the president's new executive order seems to be just another hurried attempt to paper over the gruesome optics of an ill-conceived and cruel set of immigration tactics.
Those ill-advised and ill-conceived projects include Prairie State Energy Campus in southern Illinois, the Edwardsport power plant in Indiana and Southern Company's Kemper County plant in Mississippi.
"In the weeks to come, the House and Senate will use the Congressional Review Act to repeal as many job-killing and ill-conceived regulations as possible," McCarthy added.
The ill-conceived British referendum was to a large degree a vague protest vote with immigrants as the bogeyman, and the economic consequences are only beginning to be felt.
"We worry that as Snap reverses that ill-conceived redesign, user growth will improve which could help the narrative," analyst Michael Nathanson said in a note to clients Monday.
It was at some level ambitious but ill-conceived, and we wound up casting, in the end, a Brit, who had not a drop of … MANDVI A white guy.
It just happens, and never mind that your ill-conceived bank of grain silos has caused a two-mile traffic backup of trucks waiting to withdraw or deposit loads.
Hatch here states that other unnamed programs designed to direct "billions and billions and trillions of dollars" to people in need are ill-conceived giveaways to do-nothing layabouts.
He insists the knee is now fine and that his fateful pitch to Bird — an ill-conceived and poorly located 96-miles-per-hour fastball — was just a mistake.
Governments have no business forcing citizens to hide or abandon their faith in some ill-conceived effort to create a "neutral" state in which people are all the same.
The Veggie Burger — which, in an ill-conceived marketing stunt, was previously listed as free for ladies but is now complimentary for all patrons — tastes like peas and eggs.
At that point, he must have been starving, since the company had already been through a decade of huge and ill-conceived tech missteps under his predecessor, Michael Eisner.
Going through with the trade would essentially be admitting that re-signing Griffin was a mistake, an ill-conceived attempt to cling to relevance and respectability after losing Paul.
Nonsense, all of it, as much so as the ill-conceived corporate marketing campaign from a couple of decades ago declaring that Olympians don't win silver, they lose gold.
But it would have required Reagan to give up his beloved Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the ill-fated and ill-conceived space weapons defense system that never really worked.
Additionally, according to officials, no OPO has lost a contract in 20 years due to the ill-conceived manner in which the system is evaluated on self-reported information.
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products like hackable lightbulbs and refrigerators.
"The attorney general's view is ill-conceived, legally meritless and, if adopted, would lead to a serious disruption of common business practices across many industries," TicketNetwork said in its complaint.
In the interim, the studio had made an ill-conceived attempt at cinematic universe building with "The Bourne Legacy," introducing Jeremy Renner as another amnesic ass-kicker dubbed Aaron Cross.
They transpose their ill-conceived IP policy goals on to trade policy, seeking to have the United States condone or even demand weaker protection for its innovators and creators overseas.
He ought to be focused on lone wolf attacks and people slipping through the vetting process instead, which this ill-considered and ill-conceived executive order potentially makes more likely.
An ill-conceived proposal to allow extradition to mainland China triggered their anger, and their wish-list has since expanded to include universal suffrage and an investigation into police conduct.
Crucially, West discusses last month's infamous TMZ studio interview, in which he sat next to right-wing pseudo-intellectual Candice Owens and made ill-conceived and controversial statements about slavery.
Most unedifying was his attempt to imbue the referendum result, easily one of the most ill-conceived and profoundly damaging political events of Britain's post-war history, with some nobility.
Fortunately, since it has the final authority to administer the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Office of Management and Budget can determine whether this woefully ill-conceived request can go forward.
Directed by Martin Campbell -- whose credits include two Bond movies: "Casino Royale" and one of Brosnan's Bond outings, "Goldeneye" -- "The Foreigner" feels as ill-conceived as Quan's half-baked plan.
The Federal Reserve is being revealed as not only less-than-divinely ordained, but supremely fallible in carrying out the ill-conceived tasks it was assigned so very long ago.
The tactic is simple: You back yourself into a seemingly vulnerable position — on the ropes — luring your over-eager opponent to launch an ill-conceived attack, for which you're ready.
" Further, organizations like NATO don't necessarily promote order but can be seen as "a disruptive force" in recent years "mostly by pursuing an open-ended and ill-conceived eastward expansion.
Mallya borrowed heavily to expand his airline's network, but a series of missteps, including the ill-conceived acquisition of a rival, saw the carrier grounded, some former senior staff said.
I refer particularly to the latest ill-conceived, if not downright dangerous, Twitter contribution suggesting that the United States "expand its nuclear capability," but there are plenty of other examples.
In 2014, five years after a chainwide remodel and an ill-conceived pairing with Olive Garden, Red Lobster was sold by Darden Restaurants to Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 billion.
The lesson for any country is, Don't allow voters to make major foreign- and trade-policy decisions through ill-conceived popular referendums unless you are absolutely sure of the consequences.
Samuel sets the bomb off on a Sunday morning in an ill-conceived attempt to avoid casualties; he doesn't know about the new church across the street from the courthouse.
What follows is best likened to a disturbing Home Alone sequence, as the bumbling Cam piles consequence atop consequence in his efforts to get away with this ill-conceived plot.
Trump's complaint stems from Schiff's ill-conceived attempt at dramatizing Trump's pressure campaign on foreign leaders during a Congressional hearing Thursday, using hyperbolic language to paint a narrative of corruption.
For example, one ill-conceived proposal under consideration by federal regulators would force railroads to turn over some of their traffic to their competitors if certain arbitrary formulas are met.
Another surgery revealed she had shattered the other sesamoid bone in the same foot, and it was removed in a rare — and perhaps ill-conceived, her family now believes — procedure.
" Suffragette has been criticized for "whitewashing" the British suffragette movement, and for an ill-conceived photo shoot with the leads wearing shirts reading, "I'd rather be a rebel than a slave.
Strong, credible arguments can help America avoid costly wars, just as the wrong words, ill-conceived provocations, can trigger conflicts, putting American soldiers in harm's way and US citizens in peril.
In rolling out his apparently haphazard and ill-conceived travel ban, Trump has put a match to an accumulation of tinder-dry worries, grown in the run up to his presidency.
But then came Germany's great unraveling in 2150 as a result of its ill-conceived, open-door immigration policies to welcome people from war-torn Middle Eastern and North African countries.
"This administration continues to pervert the 1980 Refugee Act and its later amendments by passing regulations that burden its own employees with overly cumbersome, ill-conceived new 'standards,'" the official said.
While there is little appetite to bankroll a country where so much American money has been wasted and pilfered since the ill-conceived 2003 invasion, Iraq's economic problems must be addressed.
And India itself has taken a protectionist turn, recently imposing tariffs on a wide range of products, from mobile phones to perfume, in an ill-conceived bid to encourage domestic production.
The CIA and the myriad other agencies that should make the American President the world's best-informed head of state cannot become scapegoats for any bad decisions or ill-conceived instincts.
The funders' joint letter, said Bentham's Chock, reflects some of the frustration the litigation finance industry feels "at having to respond to the same ill-conceived arguments" over and over again.
The family members of the victims and survivors have the right to truth, justice, and accountability for the crimes that were committed, but Guantánamo's ill-conceived structures cannot provide that justice.
In a flurry of activity during its waning hours, the Obama administration hastily approved far too many ill-conceived regulations that will affect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
If true, Trump has still not learned basic lessons about the limits of his office, despite two years of self-inflicted injuries caused by his own ill-conceived actions and comments.
"Badly thought out, ill-conceived drug policies not only fail to address substantively drug dependency, drug-related criminality, and the drug trade, they add more problems," she said in a speech.
Considering Zuckerberg hasn't tweeted since 2012 (and even then, only sparingly), it's likely he completely forgot about the account and its ill-conceived password, and the fact that he'd reused it.
The feedback is harsh, but reveals what Issa has quietly felt all along: We Got Y'all's approach to serving low-income and at-risk youth is ill-conceived and borderline racist.
And when it comes to the economy, Trump seems to fluctuate day to day — even hour to hour — between assertions that everything is fine and demands for enormous, ill-conceived stimulus.
And it needs to resolve it in a way that leads to abandonment of the agency's ill-conceived proposal for a costly new government-mandated and government-designed video navigation device.
The group, consisting of 10 former senior U.S. diplomats and security officials, described the order as "ill-conceived, poorly implemented and ill-explained," according the document, which obtained by NBC News.
Youngblood defied my imagination and showed me how: an ill-conceived progression system, copy/paste level design, and some of the spongiest bullet sponges I've ever seen in a video game.
One is the inherent contradiction in asking Parliament to carry out an ill-conceived referendum when a majority of the legislators, and the prime minister, were never in favor of Brexit.
But beyond all that, this ill-conceived tweet proves how far we still have to go in beating weight stigma — especially within the medical world, where overweight patients routinely receive subpar care.
Unnecessary, ill-conceived regulatory costs imposed on job-creating businesses inhibit innovation and make it less likely that companies will be able to take risks that could produce the Next Big Thing.
There is also the chance that intemperate words and ill-conceived threats will ramp up tensions suddenly, induce panic on the part of some, and lead everyone over the cliff to war.
How the erosion of Enlightenment values threatens good intelligence was obvious in the Trump administration's ill-conceived and poorly carried out executive order that looked to the world like a Muslim ban.
Facebook hopes to become a top destination for breaking news, but in pivotal moments it often seems to betray that intention with an ill-conceived product design or a fraught strategic decision.
"u/rossbotdouthbot is very excited to be here with you and he apologizes in advance for any half-baked, ill-conceived hot takes that he shares with the world!" said Botnik Studios.
Obama pulled no punches during his half-hour speech, targeting everything from Hillary Clinton's ill-conceived racial joke to the hard-hitting journalism showcased in Spotlight ("the best fantasy since Star Wars").
At its worst, it's somehow even better—like the weird outer periphery of booths at a consumer-electronics expo, hawking products that are all the more compelling for their ill-conceived wretchedness.
"I stand with airline pilots, flight attendants, and America's flying public against the FCC's ill-conceived 2013 plan to allow people to make cellphone calls on planes," Pai said in a statement .
His war again the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is comprised of our 17 intel agencies including the CIA, NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency — is ill-conceived, shortsighted and politically suicidal. 19.
Trump's decision to nominate DC Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court could do more long-lasting damage to the American people than any of Trump's ill-conceived actions to date.
Indeed, our fight for basic fairness and the integrity of our country's highest court has only just begun, and we simply won't permit ill-conceived power grabs to become business as usual.
When some men made the ill-conceived decision to rob a bookie operation linked to a high-ranking mafioso, it was Lerner, along with Kelley, who was dispatched to straighten things out.
Maybe then we can hope that the global economy will be spared the fall out from an unwelcome European economic recession as a result of ill-conceived U.S. punitive automobile import tariffs.
The tangle of stabs and swipes at allies and rivals alike, in the service of ill-conceived goals like closing a trade deficit, serves China more than it does the United States.
Do you want a Congress that will be a rubber stamp for Trump's ill-conceived policies and will help him remake the American judiciary in ways that could take generations to undo?
"A bipartisan majority of Congress went on record in voting to rebuke this ill-conceived idea," said Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
In this case, citizens are concerned about protecting marine life and the integrity of the public process from an ill-conceived plan concocted in secret that was struck down in federal court.
The pick originally belonged to the Nets, but it ended up with the Celtics as part of the ill-conceived deal that landed Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett in Brooklyn in 2014.
"The UK's actions in Libya were part of an ill-conceived intervention, the results of which are still playing out today," said committee chairman Crispin Blunt, a member of Cameron's Conservative party.
As the final hearing dragged on Thursday — capping hundreds of hours of testimony behind closed doors and in public — Republicans sought to portray Trump's near-certain impeachment as ill-conceived and foolhardy.
And because that's the only support he has left, he feels the need to keep feeding his base by fulfilling crude, ill-conceived promises he threw out to them during the campaign.
This line of communication to the generation they speak for is the most vital to their success thus far, so the perception that their work could be anything but personal is ill-conceived.
I am not questioning the sincerity of those who believe they have acted in the interests of religious freedom, but I am resolutely stating my opposition to this misnamed and ill-conceived law.
Joke Structure/Delivery: Putting aside its ill-conceived nature for a moment, I have to acknowledge that this is probably the best joke Hillary Clinton has made on the campaign trail thus far.
Please direct all of the people you hold in the highest esteem here, so that they, too, can benefit from my ill-conceived suggestions for how to change M.L.S. Have a great weekend.
Despite two grand jury investigations, a civil suit, and a commission final report that cited the bombing as "reckless, ill-conceived, and hastily-approved," no one was ever criminally charged for the attack.
"We believe that the plan to eliminate dozens of editing jobs and do away with the copy desks is ill-conceived and unwise, and will damage the quality of our product," they added.
Critics see the China International Import Expo, or CIIE, as an ill-conceived event that is less about business and more about political posturing amid trade tensions between China and the United States.
After a week on Twitter that included President Donald Trump's ill-conceived (and probably illegal) threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites, world leaders proved they can use the site for constructive dialogue, too.
No amount of Democratic argument about why the new tax law will ultimately prove to be ill conceived or slanted in favor of the wealthy can stand against more money in taxpayers' pockets.
On YouTube, stars promoted a dubious form of gambling, which was the worst thing they did until a few days later, when they put on blindfolds for the spectacularly ill-conceived Bird Box Challenge.
Their hearings were strikingly similar: a handful of embarrassingly ill-conceived questions, a few cathartic jabs; some tech exec dodges, grandstanding galore, and, on occasion, a genuinely thoughtful line of inquiry (typically cut short).
But as the country descended into spiraling violence triggered by Calderón's ill-conceived military offensive against organized crime, López Obrador was quietly securing a broader support base by visiting all of Mexico's 2,446 municipalities.
He has shown a taste for ill-conceived foreign adventures, from a costly war in Yemen to the unsuccessful blockade of neighbouring Qatar, which has achieved little beyond dividing the Gulf Co-operation Council.
"I stand with airline pilots, flight attendants, and America's flying public against the FCC's ill-conceived 2013 plan to allow people to make cellphone calls on planes," Pai, a Republican, said in a statement.
Many were already worried that an ill-conceived Trump tweet could spark World War III, but last night reminded us that we could also be one disgruntled Twitter employee away from a similar fate.
"The only benefit to this ill-conceived transaction is to CP - to pad the pockets of Wall Street investors and corporate executives at the expense of captive shippers and the public interest," they said.
Furthermore, Nixon was targeted more because of his misuse of governmental power to punish political adversaries than whether or not he knew in advance of an ill-conceived break-in by ne'er-do-wells.
We are reminded of FASB's ill-conceived mark-to-market accounting rules, which needlessly destroyed some $500 billion of bank capital in the U.S. alone and led to a global banking crisis and panic.
"  Kaine added the first program was "ill conceived" and there were better ways — including instituting a no fly zone — to spend U.S. money, noting, "I think a lot of people recognize that in retrospect.
The official opposition leader and head of the Democratic Alliance, Mmusi Maimane, criticised Zuma's "ill-conceived attempt" to set aside the report and said in a statement his party would oppose the court application.
It has spurred judicial and political mobilization against a sloppy and ill-conceived policy, which will likely end up with Trump accomplishing much less harm than he could have with a more measured approach.
It's time for the FCC to abandon the ill-conceived set-top box proposal and allow the marketplace for TV shows and movies to continue relentlessly creating and innovating — just like it always has.
Despite an ill-conceived Frankenstein's monster of a defense that was part 22016-4, part 4-3, and fully awful, Drew Brees and company still comprised the league's most prolific passing attack last season.
But the ill-conceived scheme to erect a monstrous sports arena would have disrupted life up and down the West Side of Manhattan and handed a multibillion-dollar gift to the New York Jets.
Government regulation makes me nervous, as my books have documented how the ill-conceived efforts to limit our fat consumption, beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, may have helped put us in this situation.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer also said there appeared to be little new in the deal, adding it was a "bogus" solution used by Trump to get out of an ill-conceived tariff threat.
Before you can say "everyone in the casting department deserves an Emmy and also probably the Presidential Medal of Freedom," the limos arrive, unleashing a swirling fever dream of cocktail dresses and ill-conceived gimmicks.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, called the administration plan "an ill-conceived experiment" and suggested that it was a form of "human subjects research" for which the government needed the consent of patients.
" The National Education Association said its "at best ill-conceived and poorly timed and at worst are an attempt to distract the American public from the humanitarian crisis he created along the U.S.-Mexico border.
This kind of change requires someone with the political capital and standing to operationalize this strategy and to push back against ill-conceived policies that are not in the best interests of securing our nation.
It would be a shame for this to be wiped away by the single stroke of a pen on an ill-conceived executive order without Congress or the American people having a chance to weigh in.
Airlines could have paid more to rely on two angle of attack sensors for redundancy — an ill-conceived, a la carte approach to aviation safety that mirrors the way airlines sell seats with more leg room.
Chip Harter, the U.S. Treasury's top international tax official, said such unilateral taxes were "ill conceived" and that it was better to pursue broader international tax reform at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD).
That narrative often also includes the idea that this may have been an independent, ill-conceived attempt on the part of a Russian lobbying group to provide what was ultimately fairly useless information about Hillary Clinton.
Still, with so many mitigating factors — the ill-conceived tape delay, the lack of viewing options for people without cable, problems plaguing the events in Rio — it's hard to plug the results into one sweeping narrative.
Perversely, by exchanging Obamacare's subsidies for an ill-conceived tax credit plan, the AHCA would disproportionately affect the poor and the elderly, which you can see in this handy graphic by Axios Presented By U-North.
This ill-conceived rule had nothing to do with protecting our nation's streams; in fact, there is a plethora of existing state and federal law already in place to protect our streams and other water resources.
But for the fence-cutting and livestock trespass by Dwight and Steve Hammond on National Wildlife Refuge lands, this ill-conceived standoff may never have gotten started, much less escalated to the level of armed conflict.
It's no secret that America's highways and bridges are crumbling and that federal and state Highway Trust Funds are underfunded, wasteful and raided frequently to finance other pet projects, such as California's ill-conceived "bullet" trains.
The first was in 1866 when, as the legal scholar John Orth has written, "an ill-conceived and short-lived judiciary act reduced the number of justices … to seven," to void President Andrew Johnson's appointment power.
Here's Pai's (fairly personal) official statement on the matter: I stand with airline pilots, flight attendants, and America's flying public against the FCC's ill-conceived 2013 plan to allow people to make cellphone calls on planes.
They are itching to pound Republicans for what Democrats consider to be an ill-timed and ill-conceived giveaway to the rich by a party and a president who promised to intercede for the working class.
There was at least some expectation on Tuesday that he might let fly an ill-conceived groaner about the wisdom of retaining a pardon or two for later, with a special counsel inquiry shadowing his administration.
And while I worry plenty that he'll achieve some of his most ill-conceived policy goals, I'm just as fearful that he has already succeeded in changing forever the expected demeanor of someone in public office.
Mistakes — a poorly worded headline, an ill-conceived story or a cringeworthy claim — are made doubly appalling by their delivery in a voice of presumed trust and authority that seems, in the social context, completely affected.
Advances soon made the ill-conceived doctrine irrelevant as the government adopted forms of surveillance like laser-window pickups, parabolic microphones, and other devices that could place citizens under surveillance without touching their homes or property.
In the pantheon of ill-conceived public policies, our policy of admitting the vast majority of immigrants based on who they're related to (in other contexts, known as nepotism) would have to rank right up there.
"This proposed law is ill-conceived, and impracticable, it won't make children safer, and it will most likely undermine religious freedom," ACBC President Mark Coleridge told reporters in Sydney, referring to the sanctity of the confessional.
What if I told that despite being a licensed game for an incredibly mediocre movie, a movie that single-handedly seemed to kill the aspirations of Universal's ill-conceived Dark Universe, it has some really cool ideas?
Feeling that they have been victimized by one-sided trade deals and ill-conceived treaties while picking up the tab for unappreciative NATO members, many Americans are ready for the U.S. to try tilting the negotiating tables.
His ill-conceived clearing attempt with 133 seconds left in the game went up the middle of the ice straight to Matt Hendricks, whose shot at a wide-open net hit Perreault's stick on the way in.
" The idea of a "privacy panic cycle" originated with another ITIF report, which argued that "overwrought privacy fears can lead to ill-conceived policy responses that either purposely hinder or fail to adequately promote potentially beneficial technologies.
As fears of a meltdown in China rippled across global markets, the government scrapped the ill-conceived circuit-breaker, and scrambled to shore up the yuan and the markets by telling its banks and brokers to buy.
Its social-democratic model of international integration represented by the European Union is struggling to hold firm against multiple challenges: mass migration from the Middle East and Africa; Brexit; deep financial stresses in the ill-conceived eurozone.
Which explains why events like Coachella have become somewhat of a style cliché as of late, with reliably  ill-conceived appropriation of various Native American garments and the infinite technicolor wig lewks curated annually by Kylie Jenner.
In the Brownsville neighborhood, Anthony R. Cassieri, the owner of Brooklyn Funeral Home and Cremation Service, derided the plan as ill conceived and said it would open the door for unscrupulous owners to add fees to services.
The euro was compromised from inception by an ill-conceived structure, and its troubles have been amplified by wrongheaded economic policies imposed by the most powerful countries as conditions for bailing out those worst ensnared by crisis.
But it is on the rather abstract question of what the EU calls "the integrity of the single market" that her proposals were so ill-conceived as to appear designed to sabotage, rather than advance the negotiations.
For the Texans on Sunday, there was another, more personal layer to the gesture: McNair's ill-conceived comment, which — whether or not it was intentional — had the effect of pouring proverbial gasoline on an already tense issue.
But now that Berlin has been thrust into the dispute, it would do well to tell Madrid that treating the ill-conceived Catalan independence drive as treason gives the movement a moral authority it does not warrant.
Maybe all the funny books I have, starting with Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," which starts off with the narrator as a homunculus (sperm) at the moment of his ill-conceived conception.
Had Mr. Trump taken advantage of the resources of the executive branch as a whole, not just a few White House advisers, he would not have rushed out an ill-conceived policy made vulnerable to judicial challenge.
This bipartisan legislation will repeal the ill-conceived duties and tariffs on imported solar panels, allow companies that imported any affected solar products under this new tariff to receive a retroactive reimbursement, and reinstate previous tariff rates.
We arrived at the Sanctuary in the back of a supply truck as Carl quickly revealed just how ill-conceived his invasion was, essentially brandishing a gun and asking the Saviors to let him shoot their leader.
"This is ill-conceived, misguided policy, and it undermines the collaboration we need to have with Muslim countries in fighting ISIL," says New York Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez1, who was working to negotiate the release of detainees at JFK.
Of course, no princess ever rides off with her prince without overcoming serious obstacles like witches, dragons, poisoned apples, ill-conceived proposal plans... Working on two hours sleep after a long overnight shift sorting mail near Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh!
As the spring/summer '17 season looms, we can only hope that the catwalks will be more representative than ever and that brands will be inspired to be more inclusive in response to West's ill-conceived casting call.
As for the vast majority of tech leadership and pretty much all of their employees, they are now making a break for the wall-free border with the government's capricious and ill-conceived crackdown on immigrants and refugees.
Before following the same ill-conceived path of the VA pharmacy program, we need to understand the risks of that approach and decide if we are willing to surrender control over these important healthcare decisions to the government.
An analysis by Scotia Bank argues that the U.S. effort to tighten rules of origin is "an ill-conceived solution in search of a problem," which could well make North America's auto sector less competitive against global peers.
By recognizing that Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator and rightly stating that he will overturn many of President Obama's ill-conceived overtures to the communist dictatorship, Trump has an opportunity to bring about real change in Cuba.
Sean Caranna, executive director of Florida Carry—a nonprofit that "works tirelessly toward repealing and striking down ill-conceived gun control laws"—says there's no ambiguity that Rossello was an illegal arms dealer after he read the complaint.
The coalition is glad the "Seattle City Council has heard the voices of the people loud and clear and are now reconsidering this ill-conceived tax," said John Murray, a spokesman with the No Tax on Jobs campaign.
His predecessors kept this tension in balance lest there be damaging consequences for American businesses, workers and farmers — a good reminder for Mr. Trump, whose ill-conceived trade war with Canada and Europe risks harming the American economy.
While they acknowledged that Soleimani has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, many feared that the move to kill the high-ranking official was ill-conceived and could escalate tensions in an already tense region.
At about the same time, young men from other regions of Myanmar began to flood into the valley as their elder brothers inherited what land remained in their hometowns and an ill-conceived dam flooded prime farmland nearby.
But that did not stop Trump from releasing it and continuing his attacks on his perceived enemies, and from perpetuating his ill-conceived conspiracy theories that only serve to undercut public confidence in our most sacred democratic institutions.
The proximate cause in each instance has been wars with unsatisfying outcomes – World War I, Vietnam, and President Bush's ill-conceived war of choice in Iraq that opened the floodgates of extremism and sectarianism across the Middle East.
The world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction… …The collateral damage of this irresponsible, dangerous, ill-conceived behavior?
He suggested amending the plan to eliminate the AirTrain link to La Guardia and the PATH extension to Newark Liberty until their value could be tested, saying they were "amongst the most ill-conceived projects" he had seen.
He negated Vader's sacrifice; indeed, given that Kylo is such a Vader stan, you could argue that the son never truly understood the grandfather, and maybe that means Kylo was an ill-conceived character in the first place.
More recently, however, the Lakers have been hindered by a series of ill-conceived moves, including a failed experiment in 2012 to build a superteam around three aging and mismatched pieces: Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Dwight Howard.
He, like many of his fellow Silicon Valley tech types, has taken on the goal of solving world hunger and improving education, taking time out to nudge civilization towards a seemingly-innocuous-but-actually-ill-conceived virtual reality.
Jairus' cannon has a wonderful 'banned science fair experiment' aesthetic to it, but it also looks like something Wile E. Coyote would have ordered from the ACME catalog in another ill-conceived attempt to take out the Road Runner.
But almost four years after the deadly chaos, McLennan County District Attorney Barry Johnson, who took office three months ago, said the case had been mishandled and he couldn't continue on the "ill-conceived path" set by his predecessor.
When Donaldson arrived in Toronto in 2015 via the most ill-conceived trade of Billy Beane's career, he was thought to be joining baseball's most fearsome lineup, with Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion already established as 40-homer threats.
The purpose of this clever tactic is to reintroduce the Obama administration's ill-conceived plan for restarting the peace process by requiring Israel to partition Jerusalem and to unilaterally relinquish control of strategically sensitive areas in Judea and Samaria.
The show, which starred Nigel Hawthorne as the civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby, mined comic gold out of his masterful handling of his boss, portraying him as wily, quick-witted and cheerfully Machiavellian as he blocked ill-conceived projects.
While free on a $5 million release bond after his trial, Shkreli offered, in what he later said was an ill-conceived stunt, his Facebook followers $5,000 for each strand of hair they managed to obtain from Hillary Clinton.
Photo: Richard Rodriguez (AP)Every 45-year-old's favorite social network app, Snapchat, is adding a feature that will no doubt appeal to anyone sending ill-conceived jokes, bad pickup lines, or messages one may want to think twice about disseminating.
"The termination was an ill-conceived and poorly executed political decision that may well have been made because of the content of what the Bay Journal published," according to the Bay Journal's appeal filed on Monday and shared with BuzzFeed News.
" American Academy of Pediatrics "I [Fernando Stein, president, American Academy of Pediatrics] must speak out against this dangerous, ill-conceived policy on behalf of our 66,000 pediatrician, pediatric surgical specialist and pediatric medical sub-specialist members, and stop it from advancing.
To date, the company's most memorable VR moment was an ill-conceived VR tour of storm-ravaged Puerto Rico with Mark Zuckerberg's cartoon avatar virtually high-fiving a fellow Facebook employee while the two waded through a horrific real-world catastrophe.
Operating procedure for Congress has been to practise brinkmanship and issue apocalyptic warnings right up to deadlines, fail to come to any agreement, and then pass short-term fixes that keep existing policy, no matter how ill-conceived, on autopilot.
But some members of the panel appeared nonetheless critical of the arguments made at the close of a six-month trial by the prosecutor, who a trial judge said made remarks that were "ill-conceived and unworthy" of his office's stature.
A tired combination of handouts for the rich, bromides for the middle class, and ill-conceived wars abroad had failed to address Trump voters' true social and economic concerns for decades, softening the 2016 primaries up for a populist insurgency.
President Trump's rollout of his ill-conceived executive order on immigration is evidence that the Framers were correct about human nature: Expect all those with power to be tempted to abuse it and those with unchecked power to be tyrannical.
The absolute fact that these ill-conceived movies get the nod in some endearing way was because they were hopelessly committed to a 903s vision—high-tops were still cool in the 90s, and to some extent, so were these films.
"A tangled web of ill-conceived federal policies explains a lot of the problems we see" in the food chain, Anne Kapuscinski, a Dartmouth professor and board chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists, explained in an op-ed last year.
Unlike the slow moving and artificial crisis over the border, a real national security crisis, provoked by Trump or not, will move rapidly, present high, possibly existential risk, involve complexity, uncertainty and unintended negative consequences from ill-conceived policy choices.
But an examination of the plans and progress of projects included in the Buffalo Billion reveals a far more uneven return on investment to date: a mix of street-level successes, expensive brick-and-mortar gambles and ill-conceived misfires.
But the plan encountered widespread resistance within the administration from Mr. Kelly and other top officials, who regarded it as ill-conceived and politically risky, and when Mr. Pruitt sought to announce it last fall, they weighed in to stop him.
The administration's ill-conceived attempt to use the profound suffering of children to deter illegal immigration failed to respect these children as human beings deserving of care and respect, not objects to be used as a means to an end.
His target this time is Christian, the curator of a modern-art museum in Stockholm whose finely crafted life is undone when an ill-conceived plan to get back his stolen wallet and iPhone unwittingly results in a public relations scandal.
"The Trump administration appears to want much of this $4.5 billion emergency supplemental request to double down on cruel and ill-conceived policies, including bailing out ICE for overspending on detention beds and expanding family detention," she said in a statement.
This state is also increasingly filled with new residents who see its ubiquitous rebel statues, schools and street names as, at best, a charming relic — but in many cases an ill-conceived homage to a past that should hardly be celebrated.
"Ill-conceived from the get-go" While there has been talk for years of a bubble in the private market, industry watchers say SoftBank made it even worse by trying to pump billions into the market, often at high valuations.
Her father is a British soldier based in Germany, and the story takes Baptiste on an ill-conceived detour into a Middle East battle zone in search of answers to the overly complicated, minimally credible conspiracy that underlies the plot.
But overall it's an ungainly, ill-conceived mess -- the kind that likely would have crashed and burned at the box office had Paramount, which is behind the J.J. Abrams-produced movie, proceeded with plans for a theatrical release this spring.
Louise Linton, an actress recently married to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, is facing criticism for an ill-conceived social media encounter that first involved her bragging about her designer wardrobe, and quickly devolved into her mocking and berating an Oregon mom.
They reveal a bipartisan consensus to lie about what was actually happening in Afghanistan: chronic waste and chronic corruption, one ill-conceived development scheme after another, resulting in a near-unmitigated failure to bring peace and prosperity to the country.
Don't freak out about deficits in the absence of inflation; don't draw up plans to nationalize the labor force; don't start an ill-conceived trade war; don't revive centrist dreams about cutting Social Security or suddenly increasing low-wage immigration.
So too is the appointment of Swaminathan Gurumurthy, a firebrand nationalist journalist who was among the architects of Mr Modi's ill-conceived demonetisation policy (whereby 86% of banknotes were suddenly withdrawn in 2016), as a part-time director on the RBI's board.
Our communities have successfully beaten back similar ill-conceived proposals in states like Arizona and Alabama, and we will continue [to] fight - in the courtroom, if necessary - to ensure that the rights of immigrant and refugee communities are protected across the country.
The original Star Wars trilogy's Jabba the Hutt is so marvelously, viscerally disgusting because of the genius of the film's puppeteers — a genius brought painfully home when George Lucas inserted an ill-conceived, rubbery CGI Jabba into later editions of the films.
In the lawsuit, filed in May, Maria Vullo, superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS), called the OCC's plan to grant the national charters "lawless, ill-conceived and destabilizing of financial markets" that are best regulated by the state.
Even in normal times the scandals would have rocked the government, but the brutally complex and consequential task of extricating Britain from the European Union, prompted by an ill-conceived referendum almost 17 months ago, has all but paralyzed the government already. Mrs.
While the blunt-knives proposal was only one among many by the Nottingham City Council to tackle knife crime, it was immediately singled out for criticism by medical experts and advocates for domestic abuse survivors, who called it "ludicrous" and ill conceived.
The greatest missteps started in 2015 with the ill-conceived war in Yemen, followed last year by a blockade that failed to ostracize Qatar and then a weekslong detention of the prime minister of Lebanon that failed to lessen his reliance on Hezbollah.
" He said that "hitting the pause button on this rushed and ill-conceived plan" would allow New Jersey Transit, under new leadership, to reconsider the idea, using "a deliberative and transparent planning process that considers input from all stakeholders, including the public.
It's what, to a certain extent, Pepsi was paying for when it hired Ms. Jenner (sense a theme here?) and put her in an ill-conceived ad in which she uses a soda to soften up a police officer at a protest.
"The policy was so wrongheaded, was so ill-conceived, so detached from the reality on the ground that he just could not continue to serve," said Reed, a veteran and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Thursday on CNN.
I've liked DeHaan in other things (especially his work on HBO's In Treatment and in this year's bafflingly ill-conceived but fascinating A Cure for Wellness), but he keeps getting cast in parts that require a roguish charisma he doesn't really have.
The Maine senator who caucuses with Democrats told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" that his colleagues had made an unfair and ill-conceived decision to invoke a rarely used Senate rule barring Warren from debate over President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions.
We've heard about these stories over the past years — the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the squabbles with Instagram founders, the ill-conceived Facebook Research project in which the company paid teens to install an app that granted Facebook detailed insight into their phone and internet usage.
But some groused that his plans — like a new $500 billion business hub "for the dreamers of the world," built from scratch and fueled entirely by clean energy — were ill-conceived and grandiose, and instead of investing at home they quietly moved their assets abroad.
The clumsy, ill-conceived rollout of "American Dirt" illustrates how broken the system is, how myopic it is to hype one book at the expense of others and how unethical it is to allow a gatekeeper like Oprah's Book Club to wield such power.
The CFPB, the ill-conceived agency created under the Dodd Frank Act, was designed to be autonomous from congressional oversight and semi-autonomous from the executive branch, a nonsensical setup in our system of representative government based on a strict system checks and balances.
Setting aside that spectacularly ill-conceived hook, Skin's processing of racism through a "safe," easily hateful outlet of a repugnant white-trash stereotype and its fetishistic depiction of violence against a black body are nothing new to American film, though no less ugly for it.
The public displays of teenage diversity and togetherness are all in response to—and stop us if this sounds familiar—a bloviating old white man using racial and ethnic invective to promote an ill-conceived and overtly racist scheme to protect his own kind.
Above all, Trump should start to consider the consequences of his impulsive actions -- demonstrated recently and vividly in his ill-conceived decision to withdraw US forces from northeastern Syria, thereby giving Turkey and Russia an open avenue to occupy swaths of territory that they'd long been denied.
Even Trump's very first official action — the travel ban — is still partially on hold in the courts after many rounds of cancellation and modification, all because quick, determined resistance to this cruel and ill-conceived policy prevented a new presidential administration from notching an early win.
As Andrew Lawler recounts in "The Secret Token", it begins in 1587 with the ill-conceived, ill-executed attempt to found the New World's first English settlement on Roanoke Island, and continues to this day in the obsessive quest to discover how and why the colony disappeared.
"Once again, this administration is making clear its intent to revive ill-conceived policies that perpetuate racial disparities in the criminal justice system, hurt families and communities, and exacerbate the mass incarceration crisis across our country," Kristen Clarke, the group's president and executive director, said Monday.
In the most embarrassing passage of an ill-conceived column, McLaren wrote: I walked into a bedroom with coats piled high on the bed and noticed that in the corner, sitting wide awake in a little portable car seat, was the cutest baby I'd ever seen.
"This is an important motion, intended to get an expeditious ruling from the Court to stop this ill-conceived action by [Commerce] Secretary [Wilbur] Ross in its tracks," Ezra Rosenberg, co-director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said.
In recent years, revisionist historians, sardonic politicians and even crooning poets have come around to carping that a deeply flawed America with its history of ill-conceived wars, of slavery and endemic racism, as well as its tacit barriers preventing social and economic mobility, is nothing special.
The President's fixation with the myth of millions of fraudulent votes manifested itself in the creation of the ill-conceived Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, run and peopled with the leading purveyors of the canard of voter fraud as a means to further voter suppressive laws.
The Democratic chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Nita Lowey of New York, said that the administration was seeking billions of dollars to "double down on cruel and ill-conceived policies" and bail out ICE for locking up more migrant families than it could humanely accommodate.
Not to be outdone, the Interior and Labor Departments have also been busy churning out ill-conceived regulations, including the Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing of plentiful prairie chickens and dictating how farm kids may and may not help mom and dad around the family farm.
The two blond demagogues currently leading the world's two oldest "liberal" democracies bespeak a ruling class that—through a global financial crisis, rising inequality, and ill-conceived military interventions in large parts of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa—has squandered its authority and legitimacy.
A new clip from The Emoji Movie revealed a film that seems as ill-conceived as its title, and an extended look at the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower was downright disheartening — overstuffed with mythology and an awkwardly cheesy Matthew McConaughey as The Man in Black.
Campaigning to contain the rival power of Iran, he launched an ill-conceived war in Yemen, which has blown up into a humanitarian disaster of unspeakable proportions in which America is complicit as provider of weaponry and military support; he blockaded Qatar; he detained the prime minister of Lebanon.
"It is time for you to announce that this policy was ill-conceived and that its consequences and cost are too drastic, too inhumane, and flatly inconsistent with the mission and values of the United States Department of Justice," the former U.S. attorneys wrote to the attorney general.
For Smith and other disappointed advocates in the fight against household pollution, the story of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves seems depressingly familiar — another tale of well-meaning Westerners keen to help poor people in the third world, ignoring evidence that their methods might be ill-conceived.
There was a Wall Street Journal article that disclosed large losses at Square, a defensive, ill-conceived blog post from Square rebutting 10 myths about the company, and Dorsey's decision in the midst of the subsequent backlash to jet to his hometown to participate in the Ferguson protests.
This one from well-known techie Erica Joy was a typical response: As for the vast majority of tech leadership and pretty much all of their employees, they are now making a break for the wall-free border with the government's capricious and ill-conceived crackdown on immigrants and refugees.
Photo: Jean-Francois Badias (AP)The UK's disastrous plan to implement a nationwide system blocking web users from viewing pornography unless their age and identities are confirmed by a verification service—an astonishingly ill-conceived idea being spearheaded by doddering Brexiteer Theresa May's Tory government—is nearly a year behind schedule.
However, given USDA's low regard for these two agencies, their unknown agenda for the USDA research arm, and their ill-conceived plans for the agencies, their optimism is not shared by those of us who have served proudly and with satisfaction in the USDA research arm as leaders and researchers.
The repeated rejection of other health care bills—the American Health Care Act, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, "skinny-repeal" and Graham-Cassidy—should have made it clear to Congress that Americans expect a careful, meaningful and deliberate debate about health care, not an ill-conceived, piecemeal unraveling of it.
Last year, in his valuable book "The Testing Charade," Harvard University's Dan Koretz aptly captured this tension, noting that tests provide valuable insight into how students, schools, and states are doing — but that testing has also been distorted by overuse, ill-conceived accountability systems, and a fixation on test preparation.
Now reports suggest that President Trump will announce an expansion of his notorious fearmongering "travel ban" next Monday—the third anniversary of its initial ill-conceived, short-lived incarnation—signaling the ban's potential evolution from a pointless Islamophobic P.R. exercise to a beachhead for the growing American ethnic-surveillance state.
Notorious (ABC): Despite its real-life inspiration -- with famed lawyer Mark Geragos and former "Larry King Live" producer Wendy Walker among its creative team -- this attempt to do a sexy court-and-crime show by mixing a beautiful cable news producer and dashing defense attorney was ill-conceived on most every level.
The season's most ill-conceived story is the one surrounding attorney Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss), who appears in the opening episode giving a poignant acceptance speech for a Women in Law award, where she discusses her wish to be seen not as "impressive, for a woman," but as impressive by any standard.
"It seems that such ill-conceived accusations that are not supported by facts are, among other things, designed to deflect attention away from a very strange 'mistake' made by pilots of an anti-Islamic State coalition headed by the United States," said Roman Kudrin, a reporter commenting on state-backed Channel One.
This scatter-gun approach to the transfer market, though — the undignified, ill-conceived search for anyone at all to play in a forward role, the willingness to add to its already unhealthily bloated salary commitments for the sake of finding cover for Suárez for a few months — is a bright red flag.
Instead of Twitter's overly broad and ill-conceived blanket ban on political ads, and confusing restrictions on issue ads, it could have considered four common-sense changes to political advertising that would help to mitigate some of the most egregious abuses and instill more confidence in the platforms' stated commitments to election integrity.
Let's go down the list: Box is in retirement and hating it; Naz is isolated and still freebasing drugs; Chandra (Amara Karan) is fired, and her career's destroyed after an ill-conceived makeout session with her client; John Stone (John Turturro) is still covered in eczema and representing low-level perps for $250.
"Dodd-Frank is a disaster, a very ill-conceived response to a financial crisis that, frankly, the government did more to cause than anybody else, " Toomey told "Squawk Box, " echoing a theory that government pressure on lenders caused them to dole out loans to people who could not afford to pay them and later defaulted.
Far from an unintended result of ill-conceived policies, she argues, the roughly 4m deaths from hunger in 1932 and 1933 were part of a deliberate campaign by Josef Stalin and the Bolshevik leadership to crush Ukrainian national aspirations, literally starving actual or potential bearers of those aspirations into submission to the Soviet order.
The Senator gets the most mileage when she brings her fight not to caricatures of billionaires in wine caves but to the real people in the room with her -- whether businessmen or bureaucrats -- who have failed to fulfill the responsibilities of public service or whose plans for the country are half-baked or ill-conceived.
Jackie SpeierKaren (Jackie) Lorraine Jacqueline SpeierEpstein death sparks questions for federal government Overnight Defense: Senate fails to override Trump veto on Saudi arms sales | Two US troops killed in Afghanistan | Senators tee up nominations, budget deal ahead of recess Democrats see window closing for impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) called the suit "ill-conceived" while Sen.
Like the recently fired national security adviser Michael T. Flynn and Mr. Bannon and Mr. Miller, the architects of the ill-conceived executive order barring the entry of citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, Mr. Gorka sees Islam as the problem, rather than the uses to which Islam has been put by violent extremists.
George Clooney's Suburbicon is a film so bafflingly bad, so fundamentally ill-conceived, so wanting in basic tenets of tone and narrative, it almost feels like the work of a first-time director—someone who simply hasn't figured out how to tell a story yet, even if (like Clooney) they've spent plenty of time making other people's movies.
On the other hand, if conservatives genuinely oppose big government, Mr. Adler adds, they should start by opposing costly government programs that are a leading cause of environmental damage — including fossil fuel subsidies, ethanol subsidies, agricultural subsidies and many of the ill-conceived dam and irrigation projects of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation.
His involvement with Irish republicanism led to an ill-conceived mission in Germany to generate support, and to secure arms and possibly volunteers, in the midst of World War I. In Germany, he felt betrayed — and, afforded little in the way of help or arms, he wanted to stop the Easter Rising, because it seemed doomed to failure.
Robbie Lumpkin—a former student and marketing employee at the company who currently works as a promoter, DJ, and stage manger at Output nightclub in Brooklyn—told THUMP about Giove's often erratic and volatile behavior, saying the CEO's decision to open a new space in LA was ill-conceived and the "nail in the coffin" for the company.
Durant and Irving could reach only one conclusion upon assessing the city's two franchises: The Knicks lag behind the Nets on the structure, roster and ready-to-contend curves — even after the Nets' previous regime essentially surrendered control of the team's first-round draft pick to the Celtics from 2013 to 2018 in an infamously ill-conceived trade.
Yes, its filmmakers have fumbled on more than one occasion — the ill-conceived brown-skin Maui Halloween costume, the muddled racial allegory in "Zootopia" — but at least they're starting from a clean(er) slate rather than trying to cut and paste diversity onto a work that's already embedded in the collective consciousness and impossible to delete.
But by the time President John F. Kennedy gave his ill-conceived order for the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, it had become all too clear that the principle of "right versus wrong" had given way to a new Cold War paradigm of "us versus them," in which traditional ethics played little part.
KAY OPPENHEIMER, DURHAM, N.H. To the Editor: At the risk of seeming insensitive, it's hard to muster much sympathy for Kevin Scott, the North Dakota soybean farmer who voted for Donald Trump and is now getting "heartburn" because of China's and Mexico's threat to impose tariffs on soybeans in retaliation for the president's ill-conceived trade policies.
After a week when Twitter seemed to bring out the worst impulses of President Donald Trump's bombast—including an ill-conceived (and potentially illegal) threat over the weekend to bomb Iranian cultural sites—both Trump and Iran's English-speaking foreign minister tweeted out Tuesday night that neither wished to escalate tit-for-tat attacks into a true war.
The bill "addresses many of the ill-conceived mandates handed down by the Obama administration in favor of policies that will allow higher education to meet the current needs of students," said Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, the committee chairwoman and the chief author of the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity Through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act.
As much as you may want to believe that (Secretary of Defense) Jim Mattis, (White House Chief of Staff) John Kelly or (National Security Adviser) H.R. McMaster has some secret plan to stop an ill-conceived strike, it's unlikely under our current system that the military chain of command would do anything other than execute the launch order as quickly as possible.
The department has overstepped this authority by crafting "improperly-issued guidance" and "ill-conceived policies" in the form of Dear Colleague letters to colleges and universities, Lankford charges in the six-page letter that will be sent Thursday to the agency's new secretary, John B. King Jr. "The Dear Colleague letters advance substantive and biding regulatory policies that are effectively regulations," Lankford writes.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum are so ill-conceived that even those meant to benefit from them are crying out for relief.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has once again demonstrated how his ill-conceived populist appeals will quickly commit him to public policies that conservatives have been working to defeat -- for a generation or more.
Security blogger and researcher Brian Krebs, a respected journalist in the field, wrote: I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company's public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social Security numbers and other information on 143 million Americans.
After changing the name of his album four times (from So Help Me God (OK) to Swish (great) to Waves (fine) to The Life of Pablo (ugh), owning Wiz Khalifa for pretty much no reason, going on an ill-conceived, misogynistic rant at his ex Amber Rose that totally undercut his pretty good Wiz burns, showcasing his horrible handwriting, and finally declaring BILL COSBY INNOCENT, Kanye is at it again.
First the disruption, which began early with the president declaring the United States to be out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, an American-shaped commercial and strategic alignment of 12 nations (none of them named China) bordering the Pacific, which was then followed by an ill-conceived and poorly implemented executive order which looked to most of the world — and to a lot of America — like a Muslim immigration ban.
While it may arguably be true that the failure of what Freedom Caucus critics derisively called "RyanCare" saved the administration from being tied to an unpopular and ill-conceived bill and having its agenda hijacked by a congressional leadership that does not share Trump's policy priorities, the narrative that this result was achieved by a band of members loyal to the president and his vision is pure fiction.
After a person hired to sit in a car and monitor its self-driving tech failed to prevent a fatal collision between her self-driving Uber test vehicle and an Arizona pedestrian, engineers wondered whether that system—which demanded the humans behind the wheel perform the monotonous task of watching miles of road go by and simultaneously be prepared to wrest control of the wheel if something went terribly wrong—was ill-conceived.
The self-flattering notion that the Western victors in World War II are special, braver and freer than any other people, that the United States is the greatest nation in the history of man, that Great Britain — the country that stood alone against Hitler — is superior to any European let alone non-European country has not only led to some ill-conceived wars but also helped to paper over the inequalities built into Anglo-American capitalism.
It seems no member of this reality TV family is immune from a little controversy at the moment as Kendall and Kylie face down lawsuits thank to some ill-conceived t-shirts featuring unapproved trademarked images, Khloé handles accusations of copycat designs for her brand Good American and Kim can't seem to catch a break, whether it's accusations of blackface, "cocaine" that turned out to be the pattern on a marble countertop or the outcry from putting her daughter North in a dress featuring a faux corset.
She ends up coming across a gruff marine general (Billy Bob Thornton) who secretly respects her, a rival reporter (Margot Robbie) who shows her the ropes in Kabul, a Scud-stud-like Scottish correspondent (Martin Freeman) with whom she shares a nose for danger and a bed, an Afghan official (Alfred Molina) who might be the most ill-conceived character I have seen in a film in a long, long time, and, most memorably, an Afghan concierge (Christopher Abbott) who, in his understated and devout way, may care more about her than any of them.
"This action, from an outspoken supporter of the 'BDS' Israeli boycott movement and whose personal vitriol led her to publicly brag about calling our President a 'mother****er' to her young son, is both ill-conceived and inconsistent with our national values," he added, referring to Tlaib's much-publicized recent comments about impeaching President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.

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