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I said that it would be daft to join the single currency regardless of the economic conditions.
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Anyone who thought that we would allow a system of admissions to atrophy in perpetuity would have to be daft.
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People can be as irresponsible or daft at 19 or 90 as at 9.
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Therefore, to give subsidies to two operators for one island would be completely daft.
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They are not all as daft as he is.
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They are not daft; they are business people.
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Is that not exactly the kind of daft regulation that we should get rid of?
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As a former teaching colleague of mine said, this is just plain daft.
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Has anyone ever heard of such a daft idea?
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If a paper is thought to distort the news, it can be hauled before this daft panel.
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He has discovered that the main victims are the ratepayers in whose name, mistakenly, the whole daft operation was launched.
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I am sure he will agree that our fellow citizens are not daft.
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I am pleased to support this amendment, daft though it may be.
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He is plain daft, and will be told so by his professional advisers.
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If it had been consulted it would not have accepted the figure, because the provision is daft.
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I agree with everything that my noble friend said about the daft dogma of this whole thing.
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However, to think that those words amounted to greater transparency is simply plain daft.
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The problems lie also in primary care and social care, so fining hospitals is plain daft.
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The same daft proposals extend to selling off school playing fields.
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Such a policy is completely daft—anyone who has studied it knows that it would be a recipe for disaster.
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To attempt at this stage, before we have the slightest sniff of what the nuclear review will include, is plain daft.
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I thought that it was a bit daft at the time.
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We voted against the proposals for most adequate reasons; they were plain daft.
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Admittedly, the amount is only 25p at present and it would be daft to try to scale it down.
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Is not that a crazy example of these daft directives?
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The original proposal for totally school-based teacher training is, in my view, completely daft.
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Anyone who is daft enough to stay for my speech should have the same sort of counselling afterwards.
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I think that both policies are absolutely daft.
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Is he aware, therefore, that his policy is not only self-defeating but patently daft?
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However, it is not just the cost and the nature of the employment envisaged that make these proposals demonstrably daft.
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The law on improvement grants for blocks of flats and maisonettes has turned out to be plain daft.
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There are daft notions of 24-hour rules and not allowing casinos to advertise.
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He called that high-productivity policing, but we all know in retrospect that it was just daft.
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He did not want to be retired, but he had to be under the daft reorganisation of local government.
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Even companies with a potential commercial interest in producing the strip stamps think that they are a daft idea.
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We have rigorous training and education programmes but on this occasion, someone has clearly said something that is just plain daft.
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The concept of voting in a supermarket is daft.
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They are not daft and have a clear understanding of what is to be undertaken.
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We are not daft, and we are not going to accept this amendment precisely because we are not daft.
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If we were speaking in terms of pure party political strategy, we would be daft to support the new clause.
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The reality of industrial life is that a director would be plain daft if he did not consider the interests of the employees.
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Such masochism may be heroic, but it is also daft.
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Computers give the wrong answers if the people working them are daft enough to put in the wrong questions.
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I enter these debates in a spirit of inquiry and open-mindedness, and not in the spirit of daft politicking.
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However, in many respects, it is worse than daft.
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If they are being caught by these clauses, it is daft.
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Is it not daft that those who are begging in order to subsist should have an added financial burden imposed upon them for doing so?
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Unhappily, the experiments proved that the thing was a daft idea.
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Everybody knows how daft that would be, but that is what we are coming to.
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I am putting the matter in perspective because the suggestion is so daft, as are all the other rubbishy suggestions that have been made.
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When considering the way in which we deal with this matter and the question of arriving passengers, it does seem to be a bit daft.
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We are not daft: we know there are difficulties.
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Other than that, her argument seems to be a simple assertion: she does not like our amendments, so they are daft.
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If ever there was a way of bringing the law into disrepute and if anything was ever completely daft, it is this provision.
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We are now offered the prospect of documentary mountains and soap opera lakes simply to meet some daft and rigid quota system.
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Traders and people who examine these things think that we are daft to have these differences, for which there seem to be no sound reasons.
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The idea that fish stocks have declined principally because of pollution is daft.
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There are many occasions in life when it is extremely sensible to reach a compromise between two logical solutions both of which are manifestly daft.
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He rightly and sensibly said that he would not be daft enough to make predictions without knowing the full facts.
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One of our advisers suggested to me that—to use his words—that might be daft.
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Once a year it carried out its daft notion of closing the remaining parts of the port for a couple of hours.
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Is it not daft to risk losing orders for exports up to £2 million merely because they are under that sum?
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An equally daft measure is the proposal for 120 mm meshes as a universal norm.
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There are two daft positions: to go in regardless and to rule it out regardless.
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The two daft positions are to go in regardless of the economic conditions and to stay out regardless of the national economic interest.
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To link leaked or reported changes in water quality in 1990 to privatisation is daft.
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We would not do something as daft as to award a mandatory grant, but not allow a local authority to use the money.
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The kindest thing that one could say about that intervention is that it was completely daft.
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However, so daft is the current market that nuclear power is being expanded and coal generation is being cut to make room for it.
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The suggestion was daft in the first place.
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I am certain that there are some dukes who are just as daft as dustmen, if dustmen are, indeed, daft.
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First, to describe the aim of the proposals as "centralised control" is utterly daft.
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I want to deal with the effect of round-the-clock drinking, assuming that we were daft enough to introduce it, on prices.
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We are daft, but we will not do anything about it.
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If a company is daft enough to pay what it cannot afford, it will go bust.
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First, they should forget the daft ideas that amount only to providing shares for their friends.
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We are merely trying to improve what is hopeless, wholly ideologically daft legislation which should have been thrown out at the beginning.
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However, the way in which the commission has dealt with my constituency is plain daft.
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As has been said, it is absolutely daft.
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Governments may be accused of being devious in their ways but surely the suggestion is not being made that we are just plain daft.
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Moreover, we would not have the current daft system of subsidising farmers for doing nothing.
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The problem with the convergence criteria that we are discussing tonight is that they are, in effect, deflationary criteria—they are daft and damaging criteria.
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There are a few things in the world worse than being daft.
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Indeed, one police officer was daft enough to say that in my presence, but a timely intervention on my part destroyed that threat.
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The electorate are not as daft as that.
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Passive verbs will make you chuckle, or grimace, depending on how daft they sound.
Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, utilitarianism need not be seen as resting on a daft view about persons.
Whether readers consider such risk-taking daft or daring will determine their response to this interesting, discursive, but uneven book.
He giggled at the daft things that sometimes happened and helped others to see the funny side of embarrassing procedures.
We would be daft to worship elves.
I could use old-fashioned language and call it daft!
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The second problem is the daft policy of the strong euro, making us uncompetitive in terms of exchange rates.
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The idea that they can do their business by telephone is just as daft.
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To run chemicals through a plant and then have to spend vast sums on disposal is obviously daft.
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We must certainly have many more daft than we have at present.
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She kids all the people who are daft enough to listen to her that she is against that, too.
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He described it as a series of utterly daft proposals.
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I should like to give another example of daft planning.
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The answer is that of course it does not; it is absolutely daft.
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