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  • This marks a significant shift in defining the terrorist threat to the United States, and will likely contribute to the easing of tensions carved for nearly a decade between the West and the Islamic world, but is it a smart shift in policy or an ill-guided misunderstanding of the threat facing America?

    Rahim Kanani: Defining Terrorism Without Islam: Obama Versus Petraeus 2010

  • More importantly, tune in on Saturday when I will reveal how the Assembly Government is threatening thousands of more businesses in Wales with another ill-guided policy decision or lack of one.

    UNEMPLOYMENT IN WALES Dylan Jones-Evans 2009

  • More importantly, tune in on Saturday when I will reveal how the Assembly Government is threatening thousands of more businesses in Wales with another ill-guided policy decision or lack of one.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2009

  • Which is when we, the ill-guided Pied Pipers of the world, break out laughing.

    The Coming Years 2008

  • Confusing our troops with US foreign policy would undermine the seriousness of the predicament we have placed them in and blur our part in leaving them there to face it undermanned, underequipped and ill-guided.

    So few for so many 2006

  • However lovable and charming Bathsheba may be, still she is weak; however stubborn and ill-guided Henchard may be, still he is strong.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • Nymphidius, therefore, called together the officers of the troops, and declared to them that Galba of himself was a good, well-meaning old man, but did not act by his own counsel, and was ill-guided by Vinius and Laco; and lest, before they were aware, they should engross the authority

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • She knew how the stones fell, how a slip-ping shelf of rock, an ill-guided pick, or a miner's spell might collapse the whole spindly arrangement of tunnel and winze and shortwall until the ground above them shuddered as the planet fell in on itself.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • This is odd and ill-guided advice, which may cause serious misunderstanding.

    Elias Defended Goudsblom, Johan 1983

  • Public enthusiasm, often ill-guided, has in a few cases outrun the facts, and has secured legislation in some states, which by no means meets the approval of most scientific eugenists.

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

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