1 Those few ill-judged words cost him his job.

2 It seemed a singularly ill-judged enterprise for Truman to undertake.

3 His behaviour was indubitably ill-judged.

4 Some of the players have short-term and perhaps ill-judged designs on the territory of their immediate neighbours.

5 For instance, an ill-judged price reduction may have an opposite effect to that desired.

6 Inaccurate forecasting and ill-judged investments by some electricity monopolies have been a salient stimulus towards liberalization.

7 An ill-judged marketing attempt made Georgiana a proto-Diana, but ignore that and enjoy an impressive, stately drama.

8 But he has also revealed how some ill-judged words from a TV pundit played a part in his impregnable display against Arsenal on Sunday.

9 Gordon Brown's ill-judged appointment of Des Browne in 2006 as defence secretary, doubling the next year as Scottish secretary, alienated some of the top brass.

10 In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.

11 Whatever the outcome, banks are sure to suffer from their ill-judged business with Federconsorzi.

12 The deer by the creek had the misfortune to come to the roadside for an ill-judged second.

13 However, in a quiet way he probably did much to dampen ill-judged enthusiasm for Habbakuk.

14 ON THE night of August 7th, Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, embarked on an ill-judged assault on South Ossetia, one of his country's two breakaway enclaves.

15 Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

16 Sadly, under GM those qualities were steadily diluted in an ill-judged attempt to stanch the losses that Saab made in all but one of the American firm's 20 years of stewardship.

17 Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

18 Many of the military council's decisions have been hasty and ill-judged, reflecting not just the pitfalls of rule by committee but also inexperience in civilian affairs.

19 This is why somany strategic decisions turn out to be ill-judged.

20 As the markets pitch and yaw the pressing question is whether central bankers and regulators have acted with swift prudence, or ill-judged panic.

21 While Mother was feeling so wrought, the slightest cross word or ill-judged remark could reduce her to tears.

22 Japan's justiceminister today bowed to pressure to resign after he was accused of making light of the parliamentary process with an ill-judged remark about how "easy" his job was.