Sentence examples for caught the administration from inspiring English sources

Instead, Mr. Peters said, Raúl Castro's rise caught the administration off guard.

The information about the clothing, first reported in The New York Times, caught the administration off guard, causing one foreign policy official to say, "One hand of the administration did not know what the other hand was doing".

Until this point, the conflict had been mostly a one-sided affair, with Fox News hosts promoting tax day "tea parties" that focused protest on the new president, and more recently bringing down the presidential adviser Van Jones through rugged coverage that caught the administration, and other news organizations, off guard.

The agreement, reached after secret talks brokered by Egypt, caught the Obama administration, like many others, by surprise.

Flash forward to the here and now, and it's pretty clear that it's Republicans' refusal to continue to support their own tax reform policy that has caught the Obama administration flat-footed.

"What finally caught the attention of the administration was the massive increase in the projected capital cost of the plant, and the overall cost of the program".

Someone initially got caught in the administration of the program, and they forgot about their goal of loyalty.

The argument for covering the White House tours non-story in this all-in, claws-out approach is that it catches the Obama administration out in a gamble, that's now been ferreted out by Beltway reporters.

Still, after months in which requests by the panel have gone unanswered, Mr. Rockefeller said in a telephone interview that he was "satisfied that we have caught the attention" of Bush administration officials by imposing the deadline, which passed at noon on Friday.

But the case has caught the attention of the Clinton administration and inspired some feverish protests.

The price increases have not only irritated many farmers, they have caught the attention of the Obama administration.