She was right, of course, and while I was there I would falter more than a few times, academically and otherwise.
China would win in terms of manufacturing; it had lost international good will; its economy would falter.
Since November, when the Foxes became an unlikely fixture at the top of the standings, rivals and experts and fans waited every week for a sign that the team would falter, that it was not up to a task usually reserved for England's bigger, richer clubs — teams like United and City from Manchester, like Chelsea and Arsenal from London.
Some thought he was so rude that his campaign would falter - but it hasn't.
For a moment, after Lincoln's death, it looked as though the project would falter.
Analysts have long feared that Apple's sales in China, one of its top two markets, would falter amid a broad economic slowdown.
It would be a cold reader who would falter here and ask who Adriana really is in Coetzee's post-modernist house of doubles: is she a real person?
Mr. Vallone, who is one of those being forced out by term limits, seemed concerned that the Council would falter once he left it in the hands of his successors.
However, it became apparent that any major redesign would falter on the attempt to serve two different audiences — the existing userbase, which isn't really interested in seeing any dramatic changes, and another group that's looking for, in Temkin's words, "a new product intended for and matched to how people use email today".
The board has expressed confidence in Mr. Eisner, worried that if he left now, the company would be vulnerable to a hostile takeover attempt, like the recent $54 billion offer from the Comcast Corporation, or would falter on its planned turnaround.
