Sentence examples for minor hitches from inspiring English sources

There were only minor hitches.

There were just a couple of minor hitches.

Both Rheingold and Die Walküre, the first two operas, had incandescent moments but still felt provisional, with more than a few clumsy manoeuvres and minor hitches.

With supporters of the two main candidates heavily mobilised, the vote passed off generally peacefully in spite of some minor hitches.

Wilkerson reports that his institution's first attempt, an AREA grant submitted for the 25 February deadline, went smoothly, with only minor hitches.

There was, however, one minor hitch: Barr did not have any money in his budget to pay Favre.

Most of the world's oil fields are working to capacity, so every minor hitch sends oil prices gyrating.

Like Mr Gates, he has a deep knowledge of military and intelligence affairs, broad bipartisan support and a streak of stubborn independence.The only (minor) hitch in an otherwise ice-smooth transition has occurred at the CIA.

Yet even outside the camera's view, there is one minor hitch before any serious games could actually begin at the White House: the leader of the free world is inheriting a fairly shabby basketball court.

The exercises continued — there were about a dozen discrete arm motions in this new repertoire — with only one minor hitch, in the case of humeral rotation, when Mitchell's phantom-limb sensation, which has persisted in spite of the reinnervation surgery, seemed to interfere.

The Knicks treated their Game 1 loss as a minor hitch, not a warning bell — "There shouldn't be no panic mode on anybody's faces around here," Woodson said earlier — but the 1-0 deficit and the loss of home-court advantage was unsettling, and the prospect of falling behind by 2-0 was unthinkable.