Sentence examples for pitfall from inspiring English sources

In saying he will not go "on and on" as Margaret Thatcher threatened to do before the palace coup of 1990 (that didn't do her much good, Blair said in his memoirs) Cameron has avoided one pitfall and stepped into another.

Announcements on TfL this year have reminded passengers of one potential pitfall – paying for travel with a card they did not intend to use if swiping a wallet on the readers.

Clumping is a classic pasta pitfall.

But SAP, which has practised this type of "smooth" transition in different forms since it was founded in 1972, has so far avoided this pitfall.

Having opened up a lead in robotics for nursing care, the country risks losing it.Regulation is not the only pitfall firms face, however.

His use of this extra memory space meant that he could circumvent that perennial pitfall of mental arithmetic, losing one's place.

I think it's essential to avoid that pitfall.

Fortunately, whatever deal is agreed between Mr Bush and Mr Singh will also require the approval of America's Congress, which has already taken a dim view of Mr Bush's nuclear generosity to India.Fearful ChinaSending the wrong signal on nuclear weapons is not the only potential pitfall in America's romance with India.

In signing the bill Jan Brewer, the governor, said that federal inaction and bad policy had "created a dangerous and unacceptable situation," with cartels operating within the state.The pitfall, though, is that conflating immigration reform and border security may backfire.

Putting lots of data online may look good but make no real difference.Trapped in the fogOne pitfall is that measuring the impacts of open governance as clearly as Mr Svensson believes he did in Uganda is hard.

Because an era is defined in clichés, caricature is a natural pitfall of trying to embody one.