misstep

The oftener the measure is brought under examination, the greater the diversity in the situations of those who are to examine it, the less must be the danger of those errors which flow from want of due deliberation, or of those missteps which proceed from the contagion of some common passion or interest.

Weaker and weaker became the struggles of them all, when a sudden misstep sent Bulan stumbling headforemost against the stem of a tree, where, stunned, he sank unconscious, at the mercy of the relentless bulls.

Many a man, the victim of a slip or a misstep, has plunged down on of these and met his death.

Enormous granite boulders blocked the way on every hand; deep rifts in the ice threatened to engulf us at the least misstep; and from the north a slight breeze wafted to our nostrils an unspeakable stench that almost choked us.

Thus working his way along, he at length found himself close to a marsh, or what he knew would soon become a marsh, for night had set in some hours before, and he fell by a sudden misstep into a thick, clinging mire.

From tree to tree the agile creatures sprang like flying squirrels, while the cold sweat stood upon my brow as I glimpsed the depths beneath, into which a single misstep on the part of either of my bearers would hurl me.

He could see nothing of his surroundings and felt nothing but the smooth, worn sides and rungs of the ladder down which he felt his way cautiously lest a broken rung or a misstep should hurl him downward.

No more in her spiritual life than in carrying the hundredweights of grain was there a possibility of a misstep or an overbalancing.

The analyst is positive on the strategy by Microsoft CEO Nadella to pivot the company "toward high-value commercial and cloud application businesses" and away from its "missteps" in the handset market.

Boards don't always give founders a pass on morals clauses when they misstep very publicly; missteps that can make executives and companies vulnerable.

He said responsible media reforms itself in case of missteps. Appreciating the role of media in Pakistan, the President said media is dispensing its duties freely and in a much better way than Indian media.

SYDNEY, Jan 9 (Reuters) -- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was left red-faced on Wednesday after a family photograph, doctored by his staff, inadvertently left him with two left feet -- an embarrassing image as he tries to end missteps months before an election.