Sentence examples for politics missteps from inspiring English sources

BEHIND THE NEWS The Air Force has been trying to replace its aging fleet of tankers for 12 years, but politics, missteps and scandal have repeatedly blocked the way.

In many ways it's a thankless job, and in the highly polarised world of Hong Kong politics, every misstep is a tempest in a teacup.

The military owes its return and the prospect of regaining ts key role in Egyptian politics to the missteps of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government -- the very force with whom it was at odds for the past six decades.

But he said he was proud of his 30 years in Democratic Party politics and regretted that his missteps had prevented him from continuing to serve in the Senate.

In politics, you never want a misstep to be upgraded to metaphor.

Mr. Gingrich, who enjoyed a remarkable rise to power and also became one of the most divisive figures in modern American politics, offered no apologies for his missteps during his stewardship.

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They are willing to forgive any missteps in "a newcomer to politics," who is learning on the job, even if his learning curve seems to be heading in the wrong direction.

But it has also renewed long-simmering questions about whether the bureau — hobbled by the volatile gun politics of Washington, a lack of permanent leadership and its own missteps — should even continue to exist.

Neither misstep compromises the final integrity of Sanders's politics nor implies he's insufficiently serious about them, especially after so many decades pushing the same policies with no best-selling books or millions to show for it.