When feelings run high, an ill-judged letter can cause as much emotional damage as any dashed-off online posting.
All this might be dismissed as a re-run of the ill-judged Japanophobia of the 1980s.
Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, criticised Ofcom's decision as "ill-judged and disproportionate".
Operators of mobile networks also made what turned out to be an ill-judged bet on future demand.
After Warburg died in 1982, his bank embarked on ill-judged expansions while becoming complacent in its core businesses.
Mother Nature has done a fine job all these years, who are we to impose our ill-judged constraints?
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If this was intended as some kind of rhetorical threat, it was ill-judged.
On Wednesday a judge decided the consultation over services at Leeds was "ill-judged" but stressed this applied to Leeds only.
But the combination of success and cheap capital that fuelled asset prices tempted companies into impetuous investment and ill-judged diversification.
And while some of his remarks were ill-judged, they were well put together, an important quality in the temple of words.
The ill-judged grubbers have been bad enough, but poor clearances have seen Wales punished heavily by teams who thrive on broken-field play.
Many of its problems stemmed from heavy losses sustained by the banking system, which had taken a spectacularly ill-judged gamble on Greece's sovereign debt.
Questioned further on his use of social media and his posts, Mr Routledge said that ill-judged comments were not the same as inappropriate comments.
Indeed, the few genuine similarities between WikiLeaks and the Taliban its elusiveness and its wide base of support argue against ill-judged attacks that merely broaden that support.
Mrs Merkel's decision to campaign for Mr Sarkozy's re-election looks ill-judged.
Much of that bulk is due to the country's role as an offshore tax haven - with Russian money being recycled into ill-judged loans to Greece.
Ofcom said Mr Murdoch's record as head of the London-based News International newspaper group "repeatedly fell short" of what was expected and was at times "ill-judged".
However, a hip-hop remix of an Ibrahim piece is ill-judged.
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At a time when the U.K. has needed allies, he and his senior colleagues have antagonized other member states with ill-judged advice on how to solve the euro crisis.
The keeper's ill-judged dash from goal allowed Pato to round him, and as he struggled to regain his ground Gomes was relieved to see Gallas clear Robinho's deflected shot off the line.
Meanwhile Mr Hague's political opponents accused him of "knee-jerk opportunism" by Labour and "ill-judged populism" by the Liberal Democrats as all parties hit the campaign trail for next week's English council elections.
Sure, the once-yearly opportunity to poke fun at an ill-judged Oscars dress or a super-gushy acceptance speech (gather, Kate, gather) is a welcome prospect in these dreary days of economic doom and gloom.
But it is also possible that Amazon is overreaching itself in an ill-judged rush to become the Wal-Mart of the web ( Wal-Mart's own online efforts have got off to a slow start).
His decision to sanction, support and add his signature to a plan to take half a billion euros worth of assets back from the bank that now owned them was his most ill-judged move to date.
It may have been ill-judged for the government to have been involved with those who launched the Gaza flotilla, but this would not have turned into such a catastrophe had the Israelis not killed nine people on board the leading ship.
It is probably worth pointing out at this juncture that Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister and proponent of Scottish independence, supported RBS's ill-judged takeover in 2007 of the bulk of ABN Amro, the deal which massively increased both RBS's size and precariousness.
It's been bailout out after bailout for Wall Street banks that made ill-judged bets on the securities market, but the so-called moral-hazard theory, that banks will be all the more reckless for it, has been discarded by those watching overseas this past week.
Banque de France Governor Christian Noyer said at the weekend that predictions that fiscal tightening would cause European growth to tip over the edge have been proved to be ill-judged and outweighed by the rise of private sector confidence lifting the economy back to a healthy growth rate.
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