Sentences with phrase «stumble over long»

When your kindergartner does stumble over long words, resist the urge to correct her speech.

What you can do: When your child stumbles over long words, resist the urge to correct his speech.

Not exact matches

But it didn't take long for Leung and his partners to stumble across what looked to be a mammoth opportunity: There was, he realized, an enormous craving for IT specialists who knew how to develop and manage web platforms that relied on so - called open - source software based on Linux — a non-propriety operating system beloved by Microsoft - loathing tech geeks the world over.

Over the first six weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 10 %, as the prospect of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, a slump in oil prices, and concerns about economic conditions in Europe and China caused the long - running bull market to stumble.

so long to the days of stumbling over a random recipe that sounded delicious, but turned out horrible and / or inedible... leaving the novice baker to wonder whether it was the recipe or them... you have bestowed upon hopeless me: skills, courage, empowerment and more than a few genuine laughing - out - loud moments based on silly confessions.

(2) somewhat linked to the previous comment in that we never seem to be prepared to hit the ground running with our best potential lineup come opening day... it's become so common, in recent years, that many fans actually hope we stumble a little in the first couple games just so it forces Wenger to bring in reinforcements... unfortunately this can be problematic, thus one of the most common phrases associated with Wenger, «panic buy»... this situation is also negatively impacted by the ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the summer months... right now I'm watching the Super Cup and not a single player is unavailable to either manager, including Ronaldo, yet somehow we have a list of players half a mile long that haven't seen game - time so far this preseason... I can only assume this is a reactionary policy created due to the multitude of injuries this club has faced over the years... just another sign of the fragility that permeates this club

Clearly van Gaal knows the 25 year old well from his time in charge of the Netherlands national team set - up though fears over the player's long term fitness may prove a stumbling block.

«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.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

With clinical precision, Hancock noted how his sense of balance was no longer the same: «I was stumbling over things that I wouldn't ordinarily have done.»

I agree — I wish every gerontologist and neurologist would stumble upon this... In my opinion, AD is entirely preventable, and if not * completely * reversible once it's created a lot of damage, then at the very least we can stop further damage from accruing and possibly even, over time, undo * some * of the long - term effects.

I just stumbled across this article and the comments while googling around (in the middle of who - knows - how - long - of - a-fast... I'm just over 3 days).

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).

For such a small car, the 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe John Cooper Works has got a stupidly long name that's nearly impossible to speak casually without stumbling over all of the «coo» syllables.

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.

- Booklist «As in her previous novels, Mapson seems most at ease describing the relationship between human and animal... Her facility with dialogue, however, is less impressive, but most readers will be too involved in the sweep of loss and recovery to stumble for long over awkward talk.»

I have had to endure a week long phone relay race which I finally completed by stumbling over the finish line exhausted and angry.

So a Stumble may not tell investors much about the long term prognosis, but it is helpful in predicting over the short term.

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Student debt is a shadow that looms over many young adults today, providing a stumbling block to financial independence and long - term plans.

And finally we stumbled upon Cosmo, a long - haired tabby, who was rescued from the streets with his siblings and mom just over a year ago.

I would draw for hours and hours, desperate for someone to sit down long enough so I could draw their portrait — from there, I was doodling in all of my notebooks at school and then I stumbled into graffiti and it was over — I was hooked.

Never before have the overheated blunderbusses of «The Party of NO» so stumbled over themselves in evident confusion over an issue which, because it exists largely in their own cognitively - challenged minds, not only assures that they will lose any ensuing face - off over the science (which is very much «there,» Thank You) but reveals their grasp of reality to be failing miserably, presaging a welcome and long overdue meltdown of the entire Republican Party.

It was so long and lacking paragraph breaks that it was difficult to not stumble when trying to step over it.

A little preparation goes a long way; this article should help you work out the kinks and avoid stumbling over your words and thoughts during your next job interview.

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.