It is contrary to reason.

That's not rational.

It's not reasonable.

Is that unreasonable?

It's completely irrational.

It wasn't reasonable.

That would be unwise.

I think it's unreasonable.

Ignoring the negative investment climate would be unwise.

But generalizing from these exceptions is unwise.

It's so pointless to ask for something that you yourself can get!

Moreover, starting a bilateral confrontation is unwise.

Returning to that model is neither likely nor wise.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.'

Pursuing radical goals does not necessarily mean that a country will act irrationally.

From the beginning, they have repeatedly declared (foolishly) that they would never send in troops on the ground.

At the same time, setting eurozone members apart from the wider EU would be inadvisable.

The failure to fit the system makes people attack that system, he said, so it is never wise to bomb nations to freedom.

Once again, Greece s creditors put the cart before the horse, by insisting that the new loan be agreed before any discussion of debt relief.

In fact, cutting investment in our future be it in people, the planet, political institutions, or business is deeply irrational.

Just as single mothers were irrationally castigated then, so today an equally irrational hagiography has risen around them.

It would certainly not be wise to allow Europe s energy bill to explode in the name of ambitious climate policies.

It is unreasonable for the Turkish government to consider negotiations with rebels, when it imprisons Kurdish politicians and threatens them with the lifting of parliamentary immunity.

But it certainly was unwise to allow a junior official to shout and wag his finger at Obama at one of the key Copenhagen meetings.

But this time, George W. Bush and John Kerry both know that it would be unwise to bash China too hard. American companies and the entire US economy have a huge stake in China now, so both candidates have no interest in rocking the boat.

It is not rational to impose such punishment when the consequences, far from preventing future crimes, may incite or cause greater or new social damage.

But this time, George W. Bush and John Kerry both know that it would be unwise to bash China too hard.

Iran s leaders, though, would be unwise to proceed with an unconstrained nuclear program and discount the possibility of US military action.

Instead, Chen s futile effort to de Sinicize Taiwan created a wastefully divisive contentious society, pitting mainlanders and locals against each other.

But relations between Israel s Jewish majority and Arab minority is an internal, delicate question in which it is not wise to involve Palestinians outside of Israel.

Interest rates high enough to curb stock market speculation would also have curbed construction and other forms of investment, raised unemployment, and sent the economy into recession.

Brazil's new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected with the same great expectations that brought the ex paratrooper and coup leader Hugo Chávez to power in Venezuela three years ago. But it would be unwise to paint President Lula as a dangerous populist just because his political base resembles that of the wayward Chávez.

To cause a significant current evil in order to avoid a possible future danger when our knowledge is limited and our judgments uncertain is, Greenspan believes, unwise.

But it would be unwise to paint President Lula as a dangerous populist just because his political base resembles that of the wayward Chávez.

Unwisely, Chen went out of his way to shut out mainland Chinese capital and to retain barriers to other foreign investors in order to protect the domestic businesses of his political allies.

It was unwise to attach the map in a note verbale responding to a joint submission by Vietnam and Malaysia to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in May 2009.

In mid November 2012, the official website of the country's Islamic Revival Party urged the authorities in Dushanbe, Tajikistan's capital, not to erect the traditional New Year's tree, suggesting that it was unwise to spend money on an 'un Islamic' holiday.

Cutting back on high return investments (like education, infrastructure, and technology) just to reduce the deficit is truly foolish, but especially so in the case of a country like Australia, whose debt is so low.

Instead, Chen s futile effort to de Sinicize Taiwan created a wastefully divisive contentious society, pitting mainlanders and locals against each other.

But it would be equally senseless to push for less ambitious policies, thereby stalling progress in the fight against climate change, without being sure that doing so would improve European competitiveness.