Sentences with phrase «after stumbling over»

After stumbling over the word «witnesseth» at least 100 times in the deed books, Kelley wonders why the legal system persists «in using indecipherable language simply because it's the way Thurgood Marshall did, the way Oliver Wendell Holmes did, the way John Marshall did, the way John Jay did.

Not exact matches

After a few years of constant searching, she stumbled upon the cauliflower craze which swept over Instagram.

During a recent NASCAR race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the aptly named QuickTrip 500 to be precise, an eight - car pileup caused a caution and this unlucky official was caught stumbling over his own feet after probably what he hoped would be a quick and smooth collection of a piece of debris.

«Yallah, Doctoora Aisha» they shouted as I stumbled after them over sandy rocks under a flaming sun.

«Coming after a summer of scandal and other stumbles, the long and ultimately futile battle over driver's licenses has left many people pondering the same simple question,» Nicholas Confessore writes in his assessment of Eliot Spitzer's term in this morning's Times.

In the interview, which took place almost five days after Facebook first tried to get out in front of the Cambridge Analytica story, Zuckerberg continuously stumbled over his words and looked caught off guard («I think technology is increasingly a trend in the world,» he observed).

The overwhelming margin of victory reflects both the popularity of such oversight legislation and a bipartisan political consensus that NSF stumbled in policing the $ 434 million project, which was downsized last year and then put under new management after it fell behind schedule and threatened to go $ 80 million over budget.

I stumbled over many unorthodox health «secrets» after more than 26 years of poring through all the traditional health books of advice.

As a teenager, Matt used to stumble over his words when talking to an attractive woman, but, after spending years honing his techniques, he has now mastered the art of attraction.

After stumbling upon Christmastown, he gets hit with the idea to take over the winter holiday for Santa.

Still, I suppose Mike has nothing to feel sorry for when audiences flock in droves to endure more of his visual and aural assault on their senses, in 3D IMAX no less, perhaps the cinematic equivalent of feeling shitfaced after stumbling feebly out of the theaters once it's all over.

The Day After Tomorrow, the latest big - budget SF disaster flick, broaches — or stumbles over — the issue of global warming, or what I prefer to call Bush weather, a topic that's surely worthy of some reflection.

After surviving perilous encounters with snakes, tarantulas and piranhas, Blu, Jewel and the chicks stumble upon Jewel's long - lost, presumed - dead family, ruled over by her authoritarian father, Eduardo (Andy Garcia).

When left to graze at leisure, the mind can stumble upon some unexpected notions, frequently overriding the conclusions we thought we had reached after twelve months of watching, writing and (occasionally over --RRB- thinking.

After days of exasperation over this missing feature, I stumbled upon the hill descent control function, which did help the car hold gears longer, but only on deceleration.

Airman Robert Bozdech stumbled across the tiny German shepherd - whom he named Ant - after being shot down on a daring mission over enemy lines.

Soon after Lucy, «a hardheaded reporter» for the town's weekly newspaper, receives a reading from Lady Diana, high priestess of the Silver Coven, warning her of approaching danger, Lucy and her Labrador, Libby, stumble over a burned corpse during a woodland walk.

After some initial stumbles, the club ended up handily beating the S&P 500 over the next decade, mostly because the club make a specific effort to copy the investing mantra of Warren Buffett, buying companies with strong competitive advantages.

If a party member's HP reaches zero during battle, they'll stumble around until someone heals them by running over and pressing X (the AI will look after you here too).

The pseudonymous Charon — probably Britain's premier legal blogger — was charming as always and helped me over my stumbles and occasional gaffes with aplomb; this is his 127th «lawcast,» after all.

I just wanted to send you a big thank you since I stumbled over your resume tips after having fought with myself and a ton of information on how to write my job application for ever!

I initially stumbled upon a mentor / coach who was an expert in Lease Options, but unfortunately, I became discouraged after my first deal blew over, because I didn't have credibility, or the proper agreements in place and buyer ended up negotiating with the seller and cut me out of the deal.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.