Sentences with phrase «with gaffes»

Football is littered with the gaffes of these guys and until the FA steps in and punishes them harshly more such errors will crop up again.

Trump misspelled «unprecedented» in his first tweet about China and the drone, and the Twitter universe had a field day with the gaffe.

The former Speaker had been deposed by conservatives as insufficiently principled (though most of these same congressmen later supported Donald Trump), and the next fellow in line destroyed his chances with a gaffe.

Not exact matches

In one of several major media gaffes during the week, CNN reported this information, along with the Associated Press and Boston Globe.

Its obsession with making its devices secure now shows extended vision, given recent high - profile security gaffes from industry leader Amazon, Apple and Sony.

The gaffes didn't stop with the politicians.

With «Trumpism» has come a new way of looking at the political gaffe, its consequences, its cures, and ultimately its future.

Chief among PREPA's gaffes is the $ 300 million contract it signed with Whitefish Energy, a tiny Montana company that was hardly equipped to rebuild Puerto Rico's fragile power grid.

Fresh off the announcement that it was going to pay a $ 13 billion settlement over questionable mortgage practices, JPMorgan Chase made a social media gaffe big enough to make Anthony Weiner blush: With a straight face, it invited the public to ask one of its top executives for career advice.

Military politics The Edmonton Journal «s Graham Thomson recaps Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson's whirlwind tour of Afghanistan, noting his comments on the security situation, corruption and other issues mirrored the trip itself: «low - key, cautious and short,» not to mention, in contrast with his predecessor, «gaffe - free.»

The Vatican was quick to say that it was the emperor's view that Islam was evil, not the pope's, but the gaffe is emblematic of the problem with Benedict, Bellitto said.

Few bytes of humor have logged more miles on the Internet than certain bloopers and gaffes collected by Richard Lederer (in Anguished English and More Anguished English), and those excerpts having to do with religion seem to circulate most widely.

As Weigel, perhaps somewhat gloomily, says,»... no pope can govern successfully with an ineffectual Curia whose gaffes undercut the papal message and erode its authority.»

One consequence of the Pope's supposed gaffe might have been that his slightly strange honeymoon with the liberal Catholic Press could have come abruptly to an end.

Little or no notice was taken nor any mention made of the fact that, in pursuit of the gaffe, the media had allowed themselves to be used» to put it charitably» by people with a political agenda that was obviously furthered by blackening the reputation of an innocent man.

If you want to know the sources of Romney's 47 percent gaffe, and the Romney campaign's self - defeating obsession with the high - earners «who built that,» you should start with things said and written by some conservatives in the years prior to 2012.

If, on the other hand, you were not a Christian, had never read the Bible and were to just start reading it with a critical mindset from cover to cover, you would find it filled with historical inaccuracies, chronological discrepancies, scientific gaffes, logical errors, contradictory verses and conflicting messages.

Lewis explained one possible reason for the gaffe may have to do with which website comes up first when someone searches «Jesus» on Google.

Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has committed a gaffe ahead of Germany's Euro 2016 qualifier with Republic of Ireland by tweeting that his team are playing Scotland.

Whilst Arsenal may have pulled a transfer coup with the signing of Alexis Sanchez they made an equally big gaffe when they declined to use their first refusal on Cesc Fabregas when Barcelona were looking to sell.

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Jarrett Jack, who didn't play in the game due to an injury, was none too pleased with his teammate in the huddle following the gaffe (via @DrewFarrand):

While J.D. has largely avoided obvious gaffes, he has seemed pretty slow out there, and the eye test is in line with the metrics (UZR / 150 of -15.1).

But Harvick's gaffe meant he would lineup at the back of the pack when the race resumed with 11 laps remaining, simply not enough time to overcome the flub.

When you can't get key defensive stops and come out with so many key gaffes, you take very winnable games and turn them into uphill battles.

In a major and unexpected gaffe, the reputed brand was found guilty of selling Chelsea merchandise with a Spurs logo on it.

emphatic finish, equalised, finished with aplomb, finished, finished from close range, fired home, flung himself at the cross, forced the ball home, found his shooting boots, found the net, found the top / bottom corner, gambled, gave the keeper no chance, glanced, goal that deserves to win any game, goalkeeping gaffe, good time to score, got off the mark,

What's preferable — him trying to do that while annoying people with verbal gaffes and ideological gaps or status quo supporter Cuomo who will simply feed NYS's economic blaze?

While we'll be able to mobilize our supporters quickly with different methods, you'll also potentially have gaffes spread a lot quicker in real time.

We all remember his gaffe when he assured the then President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, that after the election he will be «more flexible» in his dealings with the Kremlin.

The gaffe - ridden vice president's security on the ticket has been the subject of considerable speculation for months, with some — including many Republicans perhaps engaged in a little mischief - making — suggesting Biden should be replaced by US Secretary Hillary Clinton.

And because news is now merged with entertainment, the gaffe becomes golden.

Lansley's «admission» may have happened as it did because he didn't think it was news, and was perfectly happy to discuss the policy in more detail with anyone who asked him - it's only a gaffe because nobody had noticed it was already government policy.

David Cameron's popularity has hit a new low after a series of gaffes and scandals damaged his standing with the public.

While Gillibrand has been singled out for her looks on a number of occasions (she ranks No. 3 on The Hill newspaper's latest 50 Most Beautiful list) and also regularly plays up her full - tuime mother / congresswoman status, Blakeman's comment has been characterized as a sexist gaffe by most of the observers with whom I've chatted since the debate.

Not surprisingly, the Senate Democrats pounced gleefully on this gaffe, with one majority source noting snarkily:

The most notorious political gaffe posted on YouTube was former Virginia Senator George Allen using the racist term «macaca,» which, with 700,000 views, was a key factor explaining why he is a former senator.

To my mind, although I realise not to everyone's, one of Cameron's landmark foreign policy gaffes was using his shared platform in a joint press conference with President Obama in the White House to excoriate the Scottish Justice Secretary's decision to release al - Megrahi, the Libyan convicted (probably wrongly) of complicity in the Lockerbie bombing.

His terms of reference make clear that «standard rules of confidentiality with regard to access to government material will apply» - meaning he will not be able to blow the gaffe on the coalition's internal agonisings over higher education.

We're not sure if being incompetent at your job counts as a gaffe per se, but we decided to be flexible with this category.

She also made several high - profile gaffes, including a crack about fixing overcrowding in schools with birth control.

Between insulting London, praising Anglo - Saxons, and not being able to keep his mouth shut about top - secret meetings, Romney has won the political gaffe competition with a sort of obscene excessiveness only Americans are capable of.

The depth of trouble in which Hunt finds himself can be gauged by the way the Leveson cache of e-mails is being reported: almost always with a prefix such as «devastating», in the same way Andrew Lansley is normally «gaffe - prone» or «under pressure».

Catsimatidis endeared himself to reporters in 2013 with his frequent gaffes, haphazard dress and unusual deportment.

A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon took advantage of.

He will need to address that «tw*t» gaffe (his first Tweet could be a self - deprecating «I was a twit not to tweet until now») but he could soon be reaching hundreds of thousands of people during an election campaign with 140 character messages.

2012 started off with what turned out to be one of the biggest gaffes of the year.

He then turned to the campaign manager and told him he wished he had been informed he was sitting with reporters — despite the fact the event was billed as a «press - only sit down» — and then warned me not to publish his gaffe, claiming if I did so that I'd never have a sit down with him again.

But a tremendous gaffe about unemployment is not all that Hammond has in common with the former Tory chancellor, it seems.

An Afghan official, tasked with tackling government corruption, is the first to make a jibe at Cameron for his gaffe when speaking to the Queen.