Ignorance
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514 examples of Ignorance in a sentence
If board members were making choices from behind the veil of
ignorance
–not knowing their position in the company – they would want everyone to have opportunities to implement change or be entrepreneurial.
In this sense – and only this sense –
ignorance
in the boardroom is the right approach.
As a very junior priest who derives his authority from his dead Ayatollah father – himself a populist – Sadr is opposed by Iraq’s living Ayatollahs, who despise his
ignorance
and violence.
No government or international organization can plausibly plead
ignorance
or misinformation in the face of the photographic evidence available online and in the SSP report prepared by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Ignorance
calls for humility.
Nobody talked about the revolution leaders’ mistakes, doubts, hesitations, and
ignorance.
Whether Iran’s international interlocutors act on the importance of Rouhani’s election is a matter of choice, not of
ignorance.
Soviet rule, in both the USSR and its European satellites, was characterized by spiritual and physical oppression, callousness, ignorance, empty monumentalism and a general state of backwardness, boastfully presented as progress.
As the International Institute for Strategic Studies coyly put it after the Tomahawk strike: “If it appears that Trump is on the way to reaching an appropriate policy equilibrium, his impulsiveness,
ignorance
of international affairs, unsystematic nature, native contrariness and ‘transactional’ disposition probably preclude the coalescence of a distinctive ‘Trump doctrine.’”
But, regardless of this
ignorance
and of its economic interests, the EU should insist on the release of political prisoners and use all international institutions to bring pressure to bear on the Cuban government to respect the human and civil rights of Cuba’s people.
This intolerance intensifies with
ignorance.
But
ignorance
is no excuse.
There is always some monopoly power, insiders have more information than outsiders,
ignorance
and uncertainty are pervasive, and expectations are frequently disappointed.
In an environment of ignorance, populist politicians make willing prey of those who feel ignored.
Ignorance, combined with the wider corruption and hypocrisy of the regime, emptied these religious rulings of meaning.
Clearly,
ignorance
of working-class anger is not the only factor jamming their political radars.
It is a tragedy that
ignorance
of how much Indonesia has changed is being allowed to endanger its democratic development – and its role as a beacon of freedom and hope in the Islamic world.
With the help of information, education and mass participation, women and men, have defeated
ignorance
and the violence that goes with it hand-in-hand.
The power of indignation is a necessary component of a transparent and interdependent world that has lost the privilege of
ignorance.
Given the prevailing paranoia, fueled by propaganda and genuine ignorance, on both sides of the border, it is possible that our hosts were being excessively cautious.
But much current criticism of the profession is based on misunderstanding and
ignorance.
Sweden’s Other Rape SuspectsNEW YORK – It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful
ignorance
that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual-assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Not long ago, while teaching a class in which European students were a small minority, I conducted a brief experiment, a variant on John Rawls’s famous “veil of ignorance.”
Finally, the greatest risks come from arrogance and ignorance, two human characteristics at the heart of most financial crises.
In fact, Bell argues, China’s merit-based system for selecting and evaluating officials guarantees better leadership than democratic elections, which often lead to victory for
ignorance
and prejudice.
At Enron, this was accomplished by breaking down tasks into small chunks so that no one person was ultimately responsible for a decision and could claim
ignorance
when caught.
Public
ignorance
or apathy means that those responsible are able to avoid prosecution.
And they pay for this
ignorance
dearly, with the sudden slash of talons, or the constricting squeeze of a powerful jaw.
Should we wait for users to notice, or should we call on some government to save them from their own blissful
ignorance?
We should have learned the lesson of the 1980’s:
ignorance
is not bliss.
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