Sentence examples for uncharacteristic step from inspiring English sources

But the company took the uncharacteristic step of rebutting a statement by Grooveshark.

But last week, the Duke community took a small, uncharacteristic step toward embracing its most infamous graduate — by performing a play about him.

An irritated Paul Wolfowitz said he was "wildly off the mark", and Donald Rumsfeld took the uncharacteristic step of naming his replacement months before he was to leave his post.

A newly elected, left-leaning Labor Party government under Prime Minister David Lange took the uncharacteristic step of pushing through a radical set of free market economic plans, with agricultural subsidies the first to go.

I'm 50!" Ms. Foster's outpouring could well have been one of those defiantly uncharacteristic steps some people take when they hit the last milestone of midlife.

Lowell, who can be stern and opinionated on the subject of his brother's life, is quoted in "Sing Me Back Home" as remembering Merle's return to Bakersfield with uncharacteristic tenderness: "He stepped down off the bus carrying his guitar.

When Mr Sarkozy at last appeared on the stage, picking his way up the steps with uncharacteristic deliberation, his message was clear: he would "break with the ideas, the habits and the behaviour of the past" in order "to get France moving again".

When he came up to bat once again in the sixth, Cardinals' starter Adam Wainwright essayed some uncharacteristic little pauses and stutter steps on the mound, trying to throw off that implacable swing.

With Buzz, Google took the correct first step and made the uncharacteristic move of exposing Buzz to the firehose of Gmail traffic.

"She has stepped up in a way that was uncharacteristic," Gibbs added, referencing Merkel's often cautious leadership style.  .

Step forward Mr Frank Lampard, who wellies a very uncharacteristic effort high out of play behind the goal on the right, with the box loaded with eager but quickly disappointed team-mates.