Sentence examples for a significant misstep from inspiring English sources

To all but the most dead-end Tea Partiers, it was a significant misstep by Mr. Romney, and Mr. Huntsman quickly seized on it.

The agency's inspector general was set to release a yearlong investigation of the four-day conference, whose costs included more than $822,000 spent to fly 300 people to the M Resort Spa Casino outside Las Vegas and entertain them in style, when Martha Johnson, the administrator, abruptly resigned and announced the firings, citing "a significant misstep".

We could have affected the balance on the ground and we chose not to do that, and I think that was a significant misstep - and what that did was send signals around the world that we really aren't a force to be counted on".

But this would be a significant misstep for an administration that has promised to increase competitiveness and to grow jobs at home.

The report repeatedly praises city agencies and their state and federal counterparts, and acknowledges few if any significant missteps as government officials scrambled to respond to and recover from the severity of Hurricane Sandy, which killed 43 city residents and damaged thousands of homes.

But it also drives away the better class of hypocrites, decent and well-meaning but with lives including a few significant missteps they would rather not read about in the morning paper.

"I think the movement has been well guided and well served during his tenure, without significant misstep," said Jim Scherr, a former chief executive of the U.S.O.C. "It has been about the athletes.

Before that was The Gallows, a significant commercial misstep with a debut of £336,000.

The Constitutional Response: Political pundits immediately pounced on candidate Mitt Romney for his declaration that "corporations are people," treating it as a significant campaign misstep that supposedly identified him with wealth and power.

Another significant misstep is the depiction of one of her authors (Austin Nichols), a tactless, voyeuristic creep whose boorish behavior rings false.

This is Mario Kart 8's one significant misstep.