Kyoto s Misplaced Priorities

You misplaced 8,000?

America s Misplaced Deficit Complacency

The Misplaced War Against Fire

I seem to have misplaced my locket.

I've just misplaced 8,000. I can't find it anywhere.

Just wondering if our national confidence in Gibraltar isn't misplaced.

I didn't let you get away with one single misplaced comma.

Let me see. I seem to have misplaced your name at the moment.

You sure you haven't misplaced an old husband or two in your travels?

One important lesson is that intense capacity building efforts for post conflict electoral administrations might be misplaced.

I assure the distinguished Ambassador of the United Kingdom that his apprehensions in this regard are misplaced.

I'm not implying any criticism, Jim, but your gentlemanly forbearance is misplaced when you're dealing with the Hannasseys.

In hindsight, it is apparent that the alarming predictions of the report were misplaced. Among the unfounded prophesies of doom were the following

The first is to dismiss the concern as alarmist and misplaced on the ground that the situation will not in fact evolve in this way.

Politicians will base their decisions on global warming models that simply assume that technological breakthroughs will happen by themselves. This faith is sadly and dangerously misplaced.

Second, the liberals priorities were misplaced. Instead of pushing their agenda forward among Egyptians, they focused on the wrong enemy, spending invaluable time organizing rallies against the army.

Sometimes, all it is is a misplaced air scoop or maybe a loose bolt in the elevator hinge or... once in a blue moon, a pilot with a psychosis.

And it took me exactly two months of complete frustration to realize that this vision was misplaced, and that there was another vision supremely more important and more readily available.

Better technologies have allowed the world economy to continue to grow despite tough resource constraints in the past. But simplistic free market optimism is misplaced for at least four reasons.

In the end, there is no way around it If Congress does not like trade deficits, it needs to address America s saving problem and stop fixating on misplaced concerns over currency manipulation.

This misplaced sense of honour sometimes has serious consequences as in the case of so called honour killings when a woman asserts her independence and goes against the wishes of her family.

5.2 As to the availability of domestic remedies in respect of the other areas (not covered by the earlier communication), the authors contend that the State party's suggestion of available remedies is misplaced.

Many intellectuals disdain popular culture because of its crude commercialism. But such scorn is misplaced, because popular entertainment often contains subtle images and messages about individualism, consumer choice, and other values that have important political effects.

Even though the underlying intention may be entirely noble for example, so that they might enjoy access to work, education, justice or political participation, all conducted in the ways of the majority it is certainly misplaced.

Claims of sovereignty over the geostationary orbit were misplaced the repeated use of an orbital position in the geostationary orbit did not mean that a State had appropriated that position or was claiming sovereignty over it.

It might seem that all of this could be shrugged off as a harmless media spectator sport. But, to the extent that a misplaced focus on country rankings becomes a barrier to sensible policy, it can do real damage.

While some of this criticism may be over stated or misplaced, it nonetheless underscores the need to reform financial institutions and practices. Finance has long been central to thriving market democracies, which is why its current problems need to be addressed.

If trust were to collapse, and the Iranian regime decided to abrogate all of the relevant international agreements, it is highly likely that it would get its weapon, even if the country itself was bombed repeatedly. The strategic emphasis on breakout time is thus misplaced.

A century ago, the economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter argued that the central virtue of a market economy was its capacity to innovate. He contended that economists traditional focus on competitive markets was misplaced what mattered was competition for the market, not competition in the market.

Similarly, old fashioned dirigisme such as attempts to pick winners, foster national champions, or keep failed business models alive through state subsidies is both harmful and doomed to fail. And misplaced regulation for example, in the service sector remains a barrier to healthy competition in many countries.

But such criticism is largely misplaced. The development model that China is facilitating, which combines productive investment and trade with concessional loans and aid, is helping to break the cycle of under development in Africa a goal that Western led development strategies have failed to achieve.

Since 1999, the amount of such material being used for peaceful purposes has increased by 70 a trend that will continue as the use of nuclear power grows. It is essential that effective measures are in place to ensure that these materials are not misused or misplaced, whether accidentally or intentionally.

Following the 2013 riots over the amount of money being spent on the 2014 soccer World Cup, protests continued up to, and even during, the tournament in June. There were dire though ultimately misplaced predictions about chaotic conditions for participants, and then, of course, the catastrophic performance of the home team.

Americans have been blinded to these calamitous mistakes partly by a long history of racism, as well as by a misplaced faith in rugged individualism. For example, some white families have opposed public financing for education, because they believe that their tax money goes disproportionately to help poorer non white students.

Indeed, the German government is slowly coming to realize that its pessimism about the economy has been misplaced, which is reflected in continuous upward revisions of growth forecasts throughout 2006. Recently, the government raised its growth forecasts for this year and next, from 1.6 to 2.3 for 2006, and from 1 to 1.4 for 2007.

At its fifty second session held from 29 June to 2 July 2004, the Governing Council considered the request of the Palestinian Authority to file replacement claims in respect of 95 claims that were misplaced or lost in transit and were not received by the Commission during the filing period for Palestinian late claims .

Just three days ago, three days ago here at TED, we had a simulcast of David Cameron, potentially the next prime minister of the UK, quoting one of my favorite speeches of all time, Robert Kennedy's poetic speech from 1968 when he suggested that we're myopically focused on the wrong thing and that GDP is a misplaced metric.

A large housing bubble preceded the 2008 crisis in the hardest hit countries (the US, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Italy). As Friedrich Hayek warned back in the 1930s, the consequences of such a process of misplaced investment take time to resolve, owing to the subsequent oversupply of specific capital (in this case, of the housing stock).

Fears of Chinese overseas investment, as of Japanese and South Korean investment in the 1980s and 1990s and, before that, of the great post war U.S. multinationals, which the French writer Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber dubbed le défi américain in the 1960s are misplaced. These investments were eventually accepted as making a contribution to their host countries.

The irony is that Germany s anxieties about price stability, which underlie the EU s embrace of austerity, are entirely misplaced German inflation could scarcely be lower. With German unemployment, too, hitting record lows, while joblessness hits record highs in Italy and remains at obscene levels in Greece and Spain, what has emerged is a two tier Europe, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel s government calling the shots.

The global food crisis of 2007 2008 was a warning of what the future may hold in store if we continue with business as usual, including misplaced opposition to the use of modern science in food and agriculture. European and developing country governments urgently need to reverse their current adverse position on GM organisms in order to help ensure sustainable food security for all.