That does not mean that they should be applied in all situations without thought to the implications.
Britain does not emerge well: it sought to protect its interests with minimum cost and without thought to local aspirations.
But I have even less use for leaders who act without thought.
It is obvious now that many young lives were seriously damaged by powerful men who took advantage of the new freedoms and opportunities, exploiting their position without thought for their responsibilities.
The second use of that power, by his likely chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, should be to reimpose an official grip on the economy without thought of special interests or electoral pay-offs.
Every action has to be reflexive and automatic, without conscious thought as we know it.
Rather, U.S. policy-makers have chosen to police the globe without much thought to costs and benefits.
This key decision is made thousands of times daily all over America, often, it seems, without much thought.
Without much thought you can probably remember the mouth-feel of the marshmallow-coconut frosting of a Sno Ball.
But if they were to find out now, the child would be taken away from us immediately, without a thought.
Yet this decision is made literally thousands of times a day all over America, often, it seems, without much thought.
Harry Fletcher of probation officers' union Napo said the "astonishing" overhaul was being "rushed through without proper thought to the consequences".
This person will do the obligatory Tweets during the course of a day without any thought to content or more importantly, engagement.
Without a thought for himself, he gave his lifejacket to a fellow passenger and began helping women and children into the lifeboats.
These firms dump rubbish in inaccessible containers without any thought for recycling.
You can now make a purchase with just a wave of your phone without a thought about how much the purchase really costs.
He said staff at the hospital were "very distressed that this happened without any thought for the lives of people in the hospital".
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Hence, Marcus points out, many are compelled to elect board members without serious thought to all the things board members can bring to a boardroom.
The architects of Obamacare designed the scheme without enough thought to how its overlapping incentives would discourage competition on the price of the new coverage.
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I'm worried that Sony's meshing the type of functionality rumored to be its new device without any thought how it all has to work together.
My feeling is that spending money without much thought every now and then can enrich us, and our marriage, in ways neither of us could foresee.
"School leaders have the scars to show for policy change and development without sufficient thought being given to issues of capacity and sustainability, " says the union.
The control systems were designed years ago when each utility was an island, without any thought given to bulletproofing against online intrusion once everything was linked together.
The hands-off "openness" of Google lets device makers put out whatever products might generate sales for them without giving thought to what makes the whole ecosystem better.
You cannot express a thought without first considering all the neighboring thoughts that it is not.
When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.
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When the Spaniard had asked for the number, the Frenchman had given it to him without a second thought.
Those ancient New Yorkers and the Dutch and English who followed plundered the area's oyster supply without a second thought.
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Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here.
Before long, folks were using this to get from Point A to Point B without even giving thought to the brains behind the dotted lines and geofences.
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