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To measure long or short-sightedness, a narrow beam of light is shone into the eye.
She goes into hospital on Monday for laser surgery to correct her short-sightedness.
The lenses have mainly been tested on people with moderate short-sightedness.
He proved himself to be a poor judge of character, blinded by political short-sightedness.
The selfishness and short-sightedness of modern society is seen in litter-strewn, graffiti-vandalised communities.
In that sense, interspecific ethicists - supporters of common practices as well as critics - function as diverters from the empirical facts and from the problem of short-sightedness.
The consumer was reproached for 'social short-sightedness'.
I hope they will recognise the short-sightedness of their policy of discouraging life insurance.
All this is not to quantify the economic short-sightedness of putting debt servicing above sound, environmentally friendly economic investment for the future.
This short-sightedness and lack of vision directly results in huge social and financial costs.
But had we attempted less, had we been less courageous, in years to come we should have regretted our short-sightedness.
Ordinary people must not suffer the consequences of the banks' short-sightedness and the speculators' greed.
I think it would be difficult to find a more extraordinary combination of political short-sightedness and muddled economics than you have here.
I do urge my colleagues to see the absolute lunacy and short-sightedness of such misjudged actions.
Their short-sightedness of vision takes my breath away and will only do harm in the long run.
In this we recognise the short-sightedness of our own policies.
I think that there is a great deal of short-sightedness.
For example, a heart condition, short-sightedness or deafness could automatically rule out entry into the forces.
What more massive indictment of inefficiency, short-sightedness and slovenliness in government can be attributed to them than that?
The child may need to know whether he may have inherited heart disease, or short-sightedness.
