Sentence examples for a terrible misstep from inspiring English sources
The union that represents United's flight attendants described this as a "terrible misstep", while an airline spokesman said the glitch "should not have happened".
He made a terrible misstep in 2004 when he fired board members who disagreed with a policy decision rather than trying to persuade them in open debate.
As for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, most of these books agree that it was a terrible misstep that played into Bin Laden's hands, fueling Qaeda recruitment efforts and diverting critical military and intelligence resources away from Afghanistan, which in turn led to the resurgence there of the Taliban.
But after a terrible misstep with her last novel, "Child of My Heart," which clumsily tried to depict a relationship between a teenage girl and a lecherous septuagenarian, Ms. McDermott has returned to the territory she knows best: the family (specifically, the Irish middle-class family, around the 1960's).
I believe it was a terrible misstep made by a misguided administration bent on capturing and killing as many Islamic fundamentalists as possible, with no regards for the capacity of the facility or the possible political fall-out of putting prisoners of war on an isolated base to circumvent international laws on detention.
Mr. Grandage's production, by contrast, is quiet, intimate, pared down to the essence of the play: a man's impending obsolescence, the relationships within a family, how one terrible misstep begets worse ones.
What we said: "One terrible misstep aside … No Pier Pressure doesn't bother trying to sound current, instead aiming to attract casual listeners with special guests, not all of whom complement Wilson," wrote Michael Hann, in the Guardian.
One terrible misstep aside – Runaway Dancer, which sounds like Wilson trying to recreate house music as described to him by Alan Partridge – No Pier Pressure doesn't bother trying to sound current, instead aiming to attract casual listeners with special guests, not all of whom complement Wilson: On the Island, with She & Him, turns out to be a slightly sickly piece of whimsy.
LITANY OF ERROR Record labels were making terrible missteps long before the advent of the digital age.
In both Liberia and Iceland, women recently won for the first time after years of terrible missteps by male leaders.
