Policies otherwise sound when pursued in moderation can easily become unsound when pursued to extremes.
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The unrestricted, cut-rate loans private banks have been making to the Soviets are commercially unsound and unjustifiable.
The council leader fired the committee after taking legal advice that its decisions may have been "unsound".
It would be like deciding to add another floor to a house that is known to be structurally unsound.
However, to inject it into unsound ones rewards the weak, penalises the strong and creates a huge moral hazard.
Post-Mortem provides a detailed critique of the numerous unsound strategic, economic, and environmental factors arguing against such an initiative.
If AIG fails, it won't mean all of its underlying subsidiaries are unsound.
Unsound policies may accommodate all the above, paving the way for total failure.
Congress is not touching the Community Reinvestment Act and subsequent government decrees mandating that banks grant mortgages to unsound borrowers.
Those services include getting to bodies in attics or other hard-to-reach places or in buildings that may be structurally unsound.
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They chose not to give us this school, to put us in a school that they're now saying is structurally unsound.
With an uncertain economy analysts can be fallible and make unsound increments and decrements based on the most minutia of data.
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The council's lawyer said the decisions may have been unsound and both schemes will be looked at again on 23 January.
Fenland District Council had backed both schemes in August but reviewed the decision after legal advice suggested the decision could be "unsound".
Is it an unsound political strategy to hype the image and power of the enemy and the few leaders who personify it?
Visionless leaders, reckless managers, militant unions, and unsound government policies drive them.
Dr Watson was replaced by Francis Collins , a man regarded by some biologists as ideologically unsound because he is a born-again Christian.
Being of sound mind but unsound body, I sat out the Huddersfield leg, where The Grove will have undoubtedly been the other highlight.
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The UCITA relies on detailed regulation to protect the vendors and is both premature and unsound in its policy tilt, according to Braucher.
JPMorgan asserts that these inherently unsafe and unsound anti-hedges are "hedges" as that term is defined in the draft regulations implementing the Volcker Rule.
Bolt said he didn't expect any damage from Tuesday evening's quake, but he noted there could be some damage from poorly anchored objects or unsound structures.
"With insufficient liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound condition to transact business, " the Office of Thrift Supervision said Thursday night.
As most clinicians already feel that breast screening offers a significant benefit, it would probably be felt ethically unsound to leave so many women without it.
The Association of Directors of Children's Services says the decision to bring in new inspections of council school improvement services "without notice" is "regrettable and unsound".
It had run a pig farm for decades when in 1985 the Singaporean government closed it down, along with a number of other businesses deemed environmentally unsound.
Nine days after they exchanged vows, Rodman said he was going to seek an annulment, arguing he was of unsound mind at the time of their marriage.
Within his own party, he has cleverly used his struggle with John McCain to silence the right-wingers who have often seen the Bushes as unsound Rockefeller Republicans.
The Fed pointed to Standard Chartered's "unsafe and unsound practices".
In 1995 a young engineering student from the University of Virginia, John Paul Huguley, rang Fallingwater's staff to explain that, according to his calculations, the building was unsound.
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