Sentence examples for A small misstep from inspiring English sources

Mr. Turner's first day on the job started with a small misstep.

And it was a small misstep that echoed a few bigger ones on that night and presaged some to come on others.

Because they are so large, even a small misstep by them could be disastrous, said Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican.

Given the economy's fragility, policy makers need to be very careful, because it may take only a small misstep on either the monetary or fiscal side to tip the balance.

While $3 billion is a relatively small sum for an institution of Freddie's size officials said they did not want to risk even a small misstep that could set off a new round of problems.

When you're locked in combat as intensely as the warriors in Elista, a small misstep can have drastic consequences for having overbalanced, the player may feel the need to overcompensate.

That idea of the home as an oppressive rather than welcoming place forms a common thread through all these novels, most chillingly in Essbaum's Hausfrau, in which the depressed Anna drifts through her affluent Swiss life like a less vivacious Emma Bovary, destroying her life one small misstep at a time.

Style is as much perception as intent; a careful outfit can be undone by one small misstep.

His harping about every small misstep you take can feel overwhelmingly personal.

Then, with another small misstep by Caruana (16 Be2 instead of 16 Qe3), Kramnik increased the pressure with 16... f6.

Throughout the museum, the designers seem engaged in curatorial white-water rafting, struggling to keep the displays afloat while in constant peril from the enormous American readiness to be mortally offended by some small misstep of word or tone.