| You can always second-guess yourself, and wonder if you made the right choices. |
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| We are not prone to second-guess police work, but the sniper investigation seems to have been marked by confusion and worse. |
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| It even implies that it's impossible to second-guess myself, yet I do it anyway! |
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| We've been trying to second-guess Augusta all week but there's no sense in trying any longer. |
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| It is not the government's job to second-guess the public's inclination to save or spend. |
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| I mean, maybe there are times I do, but I second-guess myself a lot and I worry about things a lot. |
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| For their courtrooms to function, they can't afford to second-guess themselves, at least not regularly. |
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| You doubt and second-guess your choice, lamenting the unjustifiable advance of latecomers. |
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| What they do worst is to second-guess the legislative powers of the European Parliament. |
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| The idea of bringing in civilians to second-guess and judge the conduct of police is bound, at the very least, to arouse some resentment. |
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| One of the things that my experience as Minister of Justice tells me is not to second-guess the courts. |
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| It is thus not the role of the European Court systematically to second-guess democratic legislatures. |
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| In large project reviews, it is often easy to be critical of work and to second-guess project decisions. |
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| But while clothes shoppers are revelling in the dozens of new alleys open to them, manufacturers are despairing as they try to second-guess the kaleidoscopic public mood. |
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| Eisenhower, of course, was rather difficult to second-guess on such matters. |
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| But financiers who second-guess management about the details of company operations may be over-reaching. |
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| And even EMS dispatch vets, generally reluctant to second-guess the work of one of their own, have piled on. |
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| The incentives for the police and the government are pretty clear, and I'm not willing to second-guess them. |
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| I think I would tell them not to worry about trying to second-guess the marketplace. |
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| So you may want to second-guess yourself next time you plan on drinking 4,000 calories worth of soda in a day. |
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| He's great at delegating, giving you an assignment, and then turning you loose on it and not trying to micromanage you or second-guess you. |
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| But investing is a long-term business, and trying to second-guess short-term swings is a mug's game. |
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| Giese-Davis and her colleagues explicitly trained their peer navigators not to second-guess treatment plans and found that such fears were not realized. |
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| The Tribunal noted that it was not in a position to second-guess an employer's assessment of an employee's performance, unless there was evidence that discrimination played a role. |
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| Outsiders, especially those who would second-guess the conduct of members, are bound to be viewed with suspicion, if not a certain amount of resentment. |
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| The Board does not assess the merits of the employee's grievance or second-guess the actual decision made by the bargaining agent as to whether or not it will take a grievance forward. |
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| Team members were reluctant to second-guess his decisions. |
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| It is not for the Arbitrator to second-guess the precise level of the fine having determined that the conduct is within the extreme range of misconduct. |
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| The parents we have spoken with who found themselves in this situation expressed regret and continue, many years later, to second-guess themselves wondering whether they did the right thing. |
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| We were informed that it can also create tensions: members of the Force sometimes believe that the Commission's reviews second-guess their work and prevent them from getting on with their job of protecting Canadians. |
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| I do not seek to second-guess the doubtless well-intentioned interpretations of others or to undermine efforts to make the most of the present, exceptionally difficult, situation. |
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| The purported rationale is that a court should be reluctant to second-guess the arrangements on which people reasonably expected to rely. |
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| Once she began listening to her instincts and didn't second-guess herself the entire time, her artwork improved noticeably. |
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| Please don't try to second-guess the procedure that we have already refined and adopted. |
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| If you suspect you've stepped over the line, ask a few other copy editors to second-guess your headline. |
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| Public administration would be hamstrung if courts were free to second-guess reasonable administrative decisions. |
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| It was a compromise that even Starnes would second-guess later on. |
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| As long as there is nothing improper or inappropriate in the exercise of the decision-maker's discretion, the Courts will generally not second-guess the head's discretion. |
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| The role of the Minister is not to second-guess the decision rendered by the courts or to substitute his or her opinion of the evidence or the arguments already considered by the courts. |
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| Indeed, the tribunal observed that a state wishing to second-guess another state's conferment of nationality upon an individual faces a steep burden of proof. |
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| MacGregor avoided this trap by refusing to give managers reporting to him the opportunity to second-guess the solution he would be most likely to choose. |
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| I suppose anybody who keeps a diary and subsequently goes over it for publication has a tremendous temptation to second-guess and make himself look like an oracle. |
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| As a practical matter, a fertilizer company could not afford to second-guess the Federal Trade Commission or a jury in a triple damage case on so obscure a point. |
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| The committee is not in a position to second-guess the judgment of the defense counsel and the trial judge that this delay sufficed for adequate preparation. |
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| The concern underlying these provisions is that auditors, with the benefit of hindsight, should not be seen to second-guess the corporation's management, board or the Government regarding policy decisions taken. |
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