We attempt to rise above the fray on the shoulders of those who have failed and hear the footsteps of those who are plotting to do the same.
Not those fortunate enough to have been born on the right side of the tracks; still less the ghetto-dwellers who've failed to follow in the footsteps of the role models with which they've been so capably provided.
He was not the first politician to burn with a moral fervor; but he sometimes failed to recognize that his own footsteps could fall in ethically dodgy territory.
Former box office heavyweight Will Smith is in second place after his NFL Oscarbait drama Concussion failed to connect, following in the footsteps of conman romance Focus and sci-flop After Earth.
Schering's Latest Disclosure: Kogan's Out 11.14.02 Where Clarinex has failed to follow in Claritin's footsteps, the firm's retiring chief pins hopes on Zetia.
He was following in the footsteps of Albert Einstein, who tried and failed to devise such a theory.
Despite dogging Tony Blair's footsteps for a month this spring, critics argue, the former Times editor failed to find out much about goings-on at Downing Street during a crucial episode in the nation's history.
Fresh from her special "In the Footsteps of bin Laden," in which Ms. Amanpour, like everyone else, failed to find Osama bin Laden, she now visits various regions of Africa where a measure of hope can be found.
The real danger for America is not that it will follow in Japan's footsteps, but that it will continue its own decline by failing to meet China's export-led growth challenge just as it failed to meet Japan's.
Whitney Houston's pitch-perfect, final performance as their strict Christian churchgoing mother whose own failed quest for stardom has left her bitter and adamant that her three daughters not follow in her footsteps, is played with such quiet power and grace that the packed theater burst into spontaneous applause when on-screen, Houston leads her congregation in a gospel song.
