In the conditions of capacity shortage which they faced, short-term considerations favoured priority attention to reliability rather than optimising long-term efficiency.

(4) We are restructuring from a society run by short-term considerations and rewards in favor of dealing with things in much longer-term time frames.

The former was a decade of high and rising inflation, declining productivity growth, policies dominated by short-term considerations, and frequently inadequate international policy cooperation.

"I am afraid deliberations at the COP would only focus on short-term political considerations."

Were such calculations always based on short-term considerations?

The anti-regionalists have no real answer to this apart from arguing that governments must put the long-term economic interests of the country above short-term expedient considerations.

Mr. Pataki insisted that the rewards of a clean environment were far more precious than any short-term considerations.

Our mission certainly depends on a lot of short-term considerations, doesn't it?

Perhaps that is why his domestic policy decisions seem to be so vulnerable to short-term political considerations.

A constitution needs to stand the test of time, and its reform should not be tied to short-term political considerations.