Carrie Sheffield: Dems caught flat footed on race Democrats claim the high road on race issues, but the party's presidential candidates were caught flat-footed when called out about their hypocrisy.
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Mattis on vacation — they were all caught totally flat footed.
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In many respects, Sanford was caught flat-footed by his challenger.
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"We don't want to be caught flat-footed," he told reporters.
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But the recent Logan Paul controversy seemingly caught YouTube flat-footed.
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Was she just flat-footed or looking over her left shoulder?
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You can't be flat-footed when they say, 'Get to work.
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Compared to Putin and Xi today, Trump is looking flat-footed.
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It's too flat-footed, it doesn't leave anything to the imagination.
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Either way, Democrats should not be caught flat-footed or stunned.
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Even some of the winners in attendance were caught flat-footed.
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Corporate bonds and currencies experienced sudden dislocations that left banks flat-footed.
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Mr. Rubio turned the attack back on a flat-footed Mr. Bush.
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Unfortunately, the flat-footed family comedy around him fails to produce sparks.
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I think Trump was caught flat-footed when the missiles started flying.
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When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Microsoft was caught flat-footed.
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I think you saw that most dramatically with Amazon's flat-footed rollout.
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He found the response by TransCanada to be flat-footed and opaque.
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It was hardly the only time the Rams were caught flat-footed.
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J-Settes prefer grounded, flat-footed movement; they squat or bend or buck.
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"He was caught flat-footed," an FBI source told The Los Angeles Times.
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But in the United States, lawmakers and regulators have been caught flat-footed.
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Taylor seemed flat-footed, almost disengaged, as if exhaustion had displaced his purpose.
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Rodgers caught the defense flat-footed trying to substitute early in the game.
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The teachers unions had been caught flat-footed and weren't in the game.
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No excuses for the lower corner, though, it just caught me flat-footed.
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No one suffered more than the flat-footed and big money darling Jeb.
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But LG Display was caught flat-footed and is now furiously slashing LCD capacity.
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So after the shocking vote in June, the party was left completely flat-footed.
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Big toy retailers, the usual arbiters of what sells, were initially caught flat-footed.
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THE speed at which opioids have ravaged the United States caught policymakers flat-footed.
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The way to avoid being caught flat-footed is to be on your toes.
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A surge of undocumented immigrant from Central America in 2014 caught officials flat-footed.
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Williams looked flat-footed and immobile in the quarterfinal match, prone to baffling mistakes.
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He took it at the spot and nodded it past a flat-footed Courtois.
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"I believe the CDC was caught flat-footed," Cuomo said during the press conference.
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The movement is entirely flat-footed, often pedestrian, with impulses now rigorous, now mild.
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Caught flat-footed, the mainstream scientific community has not yet mobilized a robust response.
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Fighting those past wars will render governments flat-footed in tackling more pressing challenges.
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Cory Booker suddenly catches fire, the former vice president could be left flat-footed.
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The rest of the group stood flat-footed in hopes of turning themselves in.
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You can understand the need to recapitulate, but not in such a flat-footed way.
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Not everyone got caught flat-footed at the anemic level of job creation in April.
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Clinton, also caught flat-footed by the announcement, called for a full release of details.
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The images, staunch in their flat-footed objecthood, are transmuted into something contemplative, abstracted, metaphysical.
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The other side to this is that Trump should not be caught flat-footed either.
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But unrest has flared in states ruled by his party, catching regional leaders flat-footed.
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All he needs is to grab the rim, with both hands, while standing flat-footed.
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"It's tragically clear this Administration was caught flat footed when Maria hit Puerto Rico," said Velàzquez.
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That McGurk is still around is a symptom of Trump's flat-footed approach to foreign policy.
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He's turned prosecutors flat-footed in trials where it seemed open-and-shut against his client.
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But as new technologies come up on us I think cities have been consistently flat-footed.
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But what really irked Washington about this incident was that it caught senior officials flat footed.
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The DOT doesn't want to be caught flat-footed when it comes to self-driving cars.
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I think on many of these issues they often come across as flat-footed or disorganized.
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The base's rage has since grown to movement proportions and lawmakers have been caught flat-footed.
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Even admirers worry that Mr. Donovan, despite a fund-raising advantage, has been caught flat-footed.
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But on Tuesday, following Trump's remark about ending birthright citizenship, some outlets were caught flat-footed.
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The 2008 financial crisis caught central banks flat-footed both in the United States and Europe.
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By not taking it seriously, I was free to do whatever dumb, flat-footed thing I wanted.
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YouTube, Facebook and Twitter were caught flat-footed when conspiracy theories about survivors of the Parkland, Fla.
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The news pushed down oil prices as traders were caught flat-footed by the lack of agreement.
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He stood flat-footed rather than dancing, as if looking for the early knockout he had predicted.
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In the second round, Ali remained flat-footed, using his pawing jab to keep Frazier at bay.
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The same dynamic played out in 2008, Mahoney said, with firms caught flat-footed when economy collapsed.
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Flat-footed and out of shape, our man lost on the cards and announced his retirement thereafter.
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Even technology companies like Nokia and BlackBerry were caught flat-footed by the invention of the iPhone.
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The agency has acknowledged that it was caught flat-footed by a tidal wave of teenage vaping.
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Many investors, regulators, and capital market players were caught flat-footed when markets were computerized decades ago.
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Silver high heels are the next purchase — symbolizing my emancipation from walking flat-footed on the ground.
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In Michigan, which had voted for the Democratic presidential candidate since 1992, Mrs Clinton was caught flat-footed.
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And no, there wasn't just another huge cryptocurrency crash that caught a bunch of margin traders flat footed.
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After getting rolled over by Uber and Lyft, many cities don't want to be caught flat-footed again.
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"The results caught me flat-footed," says Weisberg, who did not anticipate continuing the podcast past election day.
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That disappointment, along with some flat-footed campaigning, was a major factor in his tumble in the polls.
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The Rangers were caught flat-footed in their zone, with Panthers forward Reilly Smith launching a fierce rush.
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Myles's photographs don't feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
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More troubling still is that Biden, flat-footed and sleepy, seems unprepared to handle this line of criticism.
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But as a web service, it was caught flat-footed by the rise of smartphones and mobile apps.
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Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, said he believes Uber was caught "flat footed" by the decision.
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Despite its rather flat-footed title, this section, "The Sixties Generation: Materials and Processes," dwells on the apocalypse.
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And the worst-case scenario is that they get caught flat-footed just the way they did last time.
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And net neutrality champions are likely happy to hear that they may very well catch the agency flat-footed.
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And Trump was caught flat-footed, and to some extent was embarrassed by his own weak delegate-gathering team.
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Much of his later work is flat-footed and polemical, when compared to his initial accomplishments in institutional critique.
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Trump's army of Twitter backers and TV talking heads also seemed to have been caught flat-footed at first.
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But what accounts for Facebook's flat-footed response to the growing number of fake stories infecting its users feeds?
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Chinese propaganda outlets, which depicted the protesters as puppets of "hostile foreign forces," seemed caught flat footed when Mrs.
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Republicans, caught flat-footed, immediately hit the breaks, signaling they wanted to get on the same page as Trump.
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The flat-footed policy response to the drought has made the crisis even larger than it would've been otherwise.
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I thought to myself, 'there has got to be a tool to help me not get caught flat-footed.
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But making an iPhone-quality smartphone proved to be harder than they expected, and Nokia was caught flat-footed.
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In the first leg of this semifinal, Ajax produced 30 sublime minutes that left Spurs flat-footed, dizzied, uncomprehending.
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Depending on the drill, Menechino said, Stanton might use a toe tap, abandon his stride or hit flat-footed.
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The author is better on the trees than the forest, and as a writer she is sometimes flat-footed.
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France Télécom was caught flat-footed by the digital revolution, as fixed-line subscribers dropped away by the thousands.
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At August's debate, Tulsi Gabbard attacked her record as a prosecutor; Ms Harris's response was halting and flat-footed.
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The pharmaceutical industry is still pushing Congress to reverse a Medicare change that caught drugmakers flat-footed earlier this year.
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The pace of this technology, which is improving at an astonishing rate, has left state and federal lawmakers flat-footed.
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Democrats, caught flat-footed, are now playing catch-up to make the public aware of what the Republicans are attempting.
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Clearly, the Macron government has been caught flat-footed by the severity of the public backlash against its economic policies.
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GE has been caught flat-footed by the shift away from coal and natural gas in favor of renewable energy.
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Caught flat-footed, Pence scheduled his own event, where he announced that he would pray about the syringe-exchange issue.
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There's nothing like getting caught flat-footed in an emergency to convince us to better prepare for the next one.
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If we had done that, we wouldn't have been caught so flat-footed by what's unfolded in the Republican race.
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Trump caught most of Congress, and Washington, flat-footed last week when he confirmed the United States had killed Soleimani.
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"Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation," he wrote a colleague in 2003.
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There have been some attempts to force humor (AIs that crack bad jokes) and/or shoehorn in character — largely flat-footed.
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Some 70 million people watched a flat-footed and lethargic Obama get hammered by a well-prepped and aggressive Mitt Romney.
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World markets plummeted, then surged, following the surprising outcome of a national vote that—at least momentarily—caught investors flat-footed.
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He compared the ban to people being denied from military service for being "flat-footed" or having other minor medical conditions.
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So when that didn&apost happen, I think that they were caught completely flat- footed with the success of this meeting.
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In essence, firms were likely caught flat-footed as demand was firmer than anticipated, and they saw their stocks drawn down.
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But if he were to get caught flat-footed again, by Harris or anyone else, he could be in serious trouble.
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Declaring an emergency after making comments like that would put in stark relief the flat-footed nature of his initial reaction.
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This, however, was the first time the FBI learned that he had made such disclosures, catching his own agency flat-footed.
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But in 2016, the league was caught flat-footed again when it suspended Giants kicker Josh Brown for just one game.
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Other automakers caught flat-footed by the shift have spent the last few years adding more S.U.V.s, especially the lighter crossovers.
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In so doing, it will be caught flat-footed each time with the wrong size force and without the necessary allies.
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In his flat-footed historical analogy, Nunes suggested that his House Democratic colleagues likely would have impeached Washington for dispatching Jay.
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Most of the mainstream media was caught flat-footed by these developments, but Jones seemed to have an explanation for everything.
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This involved an old-fashioned, flat-footed approach; Johann's signature elegance and agility was disdainfully described as 'dancing like a gypsy'.
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That reinforcement might feel flat-footed or obvious, but I think it elevates and reinforces the subjects in a profound way.
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Instead, utilities find themselves constantly surprised, caught flat-footed again and again by a trend they desperately want to believe is temporary.
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Nobody wants to be caught flat-footed as the world changes; everyone wants to be the first to spot an emerging story.
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It is the first of her books written in the first person, narrated by the unnamed, flat-footed of the two girls.
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But too often it has been caught flat-footed, reacting to a political world that has shifted under all of our feet.
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They will catch progressives flat-footed trying to argue why poorer people shouldn't be given the same benefits as the 1 percent.
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The traders that lost out on last week's windfall will not be caught flat-footed the next time Trump tips the market.
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He also caught Republicans flat-footed when he rejected a stopgap bill in December because it didn't include extra wall funding. Sen.
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The EU has looked flat-footed for some time now on coming up with any kind of plan to stop the rot.
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"Our robot is able to take much longer, faster steps than its flat-footed counterparts because it's replicating human locomotion," said Ames.
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Yet even for those who sign up as soon as they can, unanticipated costs and coverage gaps can catch them flat-footed.
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Step two: Take smaller steps, bend forward slightly, go slow and walk as flat-footed as possible when it's icy or snowy.
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No doubt from Griezmann, who takes one step and buries the penalty in the right-side netting past a flat-footed Ryan.
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His ability to make money even when caught flat-footed, his admirers say, is a sign of his nimbleness as a trader.
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There should be fireworks against Zimmer's aggressive, flat-footed zones, but Harrison Smith & Co. should also force Mahomes into a few turnovers.
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Disney being caught flat-footed when old pedophilia and rape jokes by James Gunn, the "Guardians of the Galaxy" filmmaker, resurfaced online.
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The memo depicted a department caught flat-footed and newly at risk of alienating experts critical to the military's artificial intelligence development plans.
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I think they caught them a little bit flat footed, but scoring two goals after long throws in the tournament is quite pleasing.
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I felt much more free and in control once I loosened up and sat more flat-footed, plus my toe cramps went away.
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The danger, then, is that the ECB will be caught flat-footed once again, and Europe will go through another wrenching economic crisis.
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On Monday, several senior officials expressed extreme frustration with Azar and the White House's response, feeling that the administration was caught flat-footed.
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He's flat-footed, throws his punches wide, and doesn't know how to effectively use the shoulder-roll defense that his former mentor employs.
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A back operation for a herniated disk in 1992 restored her ability to walk, though she still has a somewhat flat-footed gait.
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Yet, the U.S. was caught flat-footed in both instances, failing to understand its allies' concerns that contributed to the fallouts in relations.
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Instead, Washington Republicans were caught flat-footed when Ivey announced in April that she would schedule the special election early, for this year.
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Still, nothing in his "Masque" felt like dancing: Its succession of poses (largely flat-footed) and groupings felt like an entirely obscure ritual.
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Standing flat-footed, Stephens redirected the ball down the line with an all-arms backhand winner, then bent over and pumped her fist.
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By 1994, an unexpected rise in interest rates had caught the firm flat-footed, reportedly diminishing profits by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Even as they worked up solutions to combat ISIS online, they've been flat-footed in their response to white nationalism and white supremacy.
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The Twitter announcement may not have caught the world off-guard, but it did seem to leave most of his digital team flat-footed.
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It landed with enough slice to bounce twice for an ace and seal the game, leaving a flat-footed Lajovic no chance to reply.
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For unknown reasons, Biden was caught flat-footed by Harris in the first debate, giving rise to new questions about his age and stamina.
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A decade later, Windows is in third place behind Google's Android and Apple's iOS, which conquered mobile computing devices and caught Microsoft flat-footed.
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Oracle has been caught somewhat flat-footed by the rise of cloud software, and Salesforce is aiming for a substantial edge in retailing software.
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But he stood aloof from the strenuous heroism of Negro uplift, and what he thought of as its flat-footed insistence on "political" art.
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Though "The Year of Spectacular Men" never quite reaches comedic elegance, this heavily scripted movie is not as flat-footed as the hapless Izzy.
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Lamoureux-Davidson tallied twice in the space of six seconds in the second period and injected a spark into a flat-footed American squad.
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If you stand in front of the mirror flat-footed, raise your arms, and your belly is exposed, then your shirt is too short.
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Nonetheless the military was caught flat-footed when the militants seized Marawi on May 23 — even though the government had received advance intelligence warnings.
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John McCain famously defected and cast his deciding vote against repeal, the Republicans and the administration have basically been flat-footed on the issue.
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Zuckerberg called Cambridge Analytica's actions a "breach of trust" and noted that Facebook was caught flat-footed by Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Each player saved match points in the tiebreaker of an 82-minute third set, but Troicki's final winner left Dimitrov flat-footed at the net.
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"I think they caught anybody holding these things, in particular options holders, completely flat-footed," said Lincoln Edwards, principal at Austin-based Houndstooth Capital Management.
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As we have seen from recent experience in Europe, there are tremendous costs, both for refugees and their hosts, when we are caught flat-footed.
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But Sears, which was once the most innovative retailer in America, has been caught more flat footed than the rest partly due to Lampert's missteps.
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Critics of Uber's record in China say the American firm was both late to the market and sometimes flat-footed as it tried to adapt.
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He gets caught flat-footed far less often, allowing him to react better to off-ball movement and get better leverage when fighting through screens.
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It might be unseemly to plan political spin ahead of a terrorist attack, but Democrats also can't be caught flat-footed if the moment arrives.
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Putting these approaches into practice now, before new regulations appear—or old ones are threatened—is the surest way to avoid being caught flat-footed.
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The decision immediately gave Democrats an election-year talking point that changed the subject from Mueller and caught Republicans flat-footed, putting them on defense.
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Still, several Democrats told The Hill that Biden bungled his response and that his indecision about entering the race has made him seem flat-footed.
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Why it matters: Americans were mostly caught flat-footed by the sophistication of state-sponsored and fringe misinformation attacks leading up to the 2016 election.
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Taking turns, they tell stories that describe, as the flat-footed title suggests, the high and mostly low moments of their sex lives to date.
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The S.E.C. had not anticipated the court's ruling in seeking disgorgement in the case against Mr. Cohen and Mr. Baros and was caught flat-footed.
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"The answer, unfortunately, is that everyone has been caught so flat-footed by this episode that no one has thought seriously about that," Kavulla said.
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Protesters and critics outnumbered and flat-footed Amazon executives during a Council hearing last month, which turned into a rare public grilling for the company.
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These books have flat-footed gravitas, a vestigial sort of swat that calls to mind Johnny Cash's stark final records with the producer Rick Rubin.
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The walkouts and rallies, which followed a similar movement in West Virginia last month, have caught lawmakers and sometimes the teachers' labor unions flat-footed.
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A source close the Cornyn campaign told The Hill that the senator is getting an early start to ensure that he's not caught flat-footed.
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And now a new NBC report will do little to banish doubts that the US could be caught flat-footed in defending against possible foreign meddling.
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The planning document indicates a potential growing military responsibility in an administration caught flat-footed in having to house waves of migrants awaiting civilian criminal proceedings.
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I positioned myself underneath the house and, in a stroke of luck, managed to peek out at the perfect moment and catch my enemy flat-footed.
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The White House���s spin team, which has previously been caught flat-footed by Trump-induced scandals, rushed to try to put out the impending firestorm.
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It strikes me as little more than a deskilled knock-off of the van Gogh and, like the frogs and the portrait, incurious and flat-footed.
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Turkey's largest opposition party, the Republican People's Party, or C.H.P., was caught flat-footed by the announcement, and has not yet selected a candidate for president.
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Why it matters: Unions in the United States and Europe were caught flat footed by deindustrialization, which took jobs from their members through automation and outsourcing.
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"What's happened here is that Coles has caught Woolies flat footed," said David Walker, an analyst at Clime Asset Management, which does not own Wesfarmers shares.
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Faced with a solid, flat-footed opponent, as all seemed to be compared with him, he would circle, torment and mesmerise, throwing short punches at speed.
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Love was hammered in the head in Game 2, in part because he waited flat-footed for a rebound he might more wisely have jumped for.
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European stocks were left flat-footed as disappointing company results, including a $7.5 billion fine for Deutsche Bank , sent its shares down more than 5 percent .
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But the measure also includes provisions with an eye toward preventing the US from being caught so flat-footed next time it's confronted with a pandemic.
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Facebook started out as a desktop website, and the company could have easily been caught flat-footed, like Yahoo was, by the shift to mobile devices.
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Mr. Trump now says he is willing to meet with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, more proof that catastrophe-mongering leaves his critics flat-footed.
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So Democrats in Congress might benefit from sorting out the details sooner rather than later, lest they find themselves similarly flat-footed once they're in power.
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The tired disruptions of Thom Willems's electronic score and the flat-footed pseudo-casual walks meant to turn classroom exercises contemporary feel like worn-out catchphrases.
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Case Keenum gave his team a 7-0 lead with a beautiful 25-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Rudolph that left the Eagles looking flat-footed.
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If not, they are all too likely to get caught as flat footed as were their counterparts on the eve of the 2008-2009 Great Recession.
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Meantime, 3G co-founder Jorge Paulo Lemann recently acknowledged at the Milken Institute Global Conference that he was caught flat-footed by onslaught of challenger brands.
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Meantime, 3G co-founder Jorge Paulo Lemann recently acknowledged at the Milken Institute Global Conference that he was caught flat-footed by onslaught of challenger brands.
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Either GM's heavy spending on battery-electric vehicles will be wasted, or Toyota will be caught flat-footed when the rest of the market goes electric.
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Mainly organized on Facebook by teachers fed up with years of funding cuts, the protests have caught lawmakers and sometimes the educators' own unions flat-footed.
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U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, however, said President Donald Trump and his administration had been caught "flat-footed" and lacked a comprehensive plan to deal with coronavirus.
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The GOP, having been caught embarrassingly flat-footed on health care after capturing the presidency in 2016, has essentially stopped championing big ideas on the subject.
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You can watch the third and fourth round of Nelson versus Story to see just how hittable a flat footed man in a karate stance can be.
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In the United States, unorthodox outsiders like Trump and Sanders have left opponents -- like the entire Republican presidential field and Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton -- flat-footed.
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The administration's flat-footed response to Turkey's revelations of Mr Khashoggi's fate was the chaos you get from running a major alliance via Jared Kushner's mobile phone.
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The company has been criticized by politicians for its impact on housing crises in major cities and by startup advisers for being caught flat-footed by regulators.
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"I'm flat-footed, and I pretty much have a forced arch in my foot from playing volleyball my whole life," she explained in the recent Bazaar interview.
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The unpredictability of Trump winning the GOP nomination meant Democrats were caught flat-footed when it came to identifying strong candidates who might have expanded the battleground.
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Facebook swept into an online advertising market dominated by Google in 2012, and ended up capturing a huge portion of mobile online ads, catching Google flat-footed.
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By the end of the fight Weidman was standing flat footed with Jacare, trading, and soon ate a right hand that put him down for the TKO.
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Biden was very mediocre in the first debate of the race last month -- seemingly caught entirely flat-footed by Harris' attack on his votes on school busing.
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Judging from the sidelong glances of flat-footed accountants running for their lives to either side of me, I was not the only one who thought so.
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European stocks were left flat-footed as disappointing company results, including a $7.5 billion U.S. fine for Deutsche Bank, sent its shares down more than 5 percent.
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The company's woes have been well-dissected —a flat-footed investment strategy in which decision-makers always seemed to be at least one step behind prevailing trends.
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Rather than playing "deeper than the deepest" like a typical center fielder, free safety Rodney McLeod plays flat-footed and aggressive, reading the QB and jumping crossers.
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H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, wrote in his book "Dereliction of Duty," the early stages of the Vietnam War caught America's military leaders flat-footed.
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Byard's flat-footed toss broke the previous record of 73 yards which was set by Ed Meador, a defensive back for the Los Angeles Rams, in 1967.
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Mr. Rajoy's decision to hold quick elections — after ousting the entire regional government and also dissolving the Catalan Parliament — was intended to catch the separatists flat-footed.
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The N.B.A., usually more progressive than any major sports league, was caught flat-footed on defense, tangled up by all the crossover dribbles and cross-culture passes.
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The walkouts and rallies in Republican-dominated states, mainly organized by ordinary teachers on Facebook, have caught lawmakers and sometimes the teachers' own labor unions flat-footed.
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Although his lawyers had projected confidence in their dealings with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, they were caught flat-footed by the New York raids.
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Administration officials have known for months — arguably years — that more migrant families could trek to the United States, yet they appear to have been caught flat-footed.
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The exhibition Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich, currently on view at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, showcases his trendsetting clothes, presented on egalitarian flat-footed mannequins.
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Vondrousova finished the first set with a defensive lob that left Konta flat-footed, then sealed the match with a dropshot played with a magician's sleight of hand.
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Instead of positioning himself to trap Joe Ingles or just dictate which direction he has to drive, Bjelica is flat-footed and lets Rudy Gobert pick him off.
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Wall Street was caught flat-footed overnight as Donald Trump won the presidency, a result few strategists, investors and economists took seriously in their preparation for the election.
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Moreover, this narrative has to be reconciled with other pre-existing evidence, such as the fact that A. afarensis was flat footed and very well adapted to walking.
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Maybe then the Federal Reserve will not get caught flat-footed in responding to an emerging market crisis that has the potential to derail the global economic recovery.
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Politico also reported that Mattis wasn't told about Trump's decision in advance, meaning the Pentagon chief was caught flat-footed — and undercut, yet again, by his own boss.
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European stocks were left flat-footed as disappointing company results, including a $7.5 billion fine for wrongdoing for Deutsche Bank sent its shares down more than 5 percent.
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He was also flat-footed, allowing Barnes to leap over him, another illustration of how difficult it has been for the Cavaliers to hide Love's lack of athleticism.
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But the measures are also an attempt to blunt criticism that officials have been flat-footed and failed to anticipate problems left by the refugees in their wake.
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On the first goal, Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf was caught flat-footed in the neutral zone and allowed Carey to slide to the front of the net unchecked.
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It was another blinding flurry of unanticipated moves, the sort that left his Republican opponents flat-footed throughout the primary campaign, and drew more than 13 million votes.
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"I think we had a good start and we kind of got caught flat-footed at the beginning of the second and they scored three goals," Voracek said.
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The Dallas Cowboys came out flat-footed and lost to the New York Jets, who looked a completely different team with the return of starting quarterback Sam Darnold.
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Many male late-night hosts seemed a bit flat-footed as the #metoo movement gathered steam, but Ms. Bee took on Harvey Weinstein ferociously, and never let up.
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His tap off the plate was quickly smothered by the catcher, Perez, who stepped on home plate and tagged out Wade, standing flat-footed in the batter's box.
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Stealing a base means you risk getting thrown out, caught flat-footed or touched by the ball by any of the infielders, sending you back to the dugout.
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Bloomberg has not been in a televised debate in over 10 years, and he has a history of offering seemingly flat-footed and stubborn responses to critical questions.
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Blame tainted nearly every arm of government, from Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, and his Department of Environmental Quality, to the flat-footed E.P.A., to local elected leaders.
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The events that unfolded over the second half of last week followed a familiar pattern for a league that can appear flat-footed when managing an evolving crisis.
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There are warm, room-filling Charlie Wilson hooks and there's finally another true Kid Cudi showcase on a Kanye album, but the headliner is usually caught flat-footed.
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Even these efforts have looked hopelessly flat-footed, patchy and piecemeal in the face of concerned attempts to use its tools to amplify disinformation in markets around the world.
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Our critics weren't so fond of the first episode — one called it a "flat-footed" recapitulation, but generally thought the narrative picked up as the series moved along. 10.
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Sportswear brand Adidas admitted last month it had been caught flat-footed when its suppliers failed to keep up with strong U.S. demand for its mid-priced clothing ranges.
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Perhaps it's that it was caught flat-footed when numerous other automakers were investing in self-driving technology or partnering up with Silicon Valley tech companies left and right.
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YouTube's flat-footed response led to a series of advertising boycotts, pushing Wojcicki and her team to begin taking the issue much more seriously by employing more human moderators.
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In its current form and at its current price, Per Se struggled and failed to do this, ranging from respectably dull at best to disappointingly flat-footed at worst.
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But the people who haven't aligned their investments with those three objectives will be the ones caught flat-footed and will be under pressure to make hasty investment decisions.
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But it was caught flat-footed by big box retailers like Walmart, which used new information technology to perfect inventory management and give itself leverage in negotiations with suppliers.
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In two of those three shots, he hesitates slightly as he brings the ball down to his waist because he's catching it either flat-footed or between his hop.
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It's all too likely that GM will prioritize giant SUVs, only to get caught flat-footed and count on another bailout when the market changes (as it inevitably will).
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But the white supremacist attack on Christchurch, where killed 51 people were killed at two mosques and helped inspire a similar attack in El Paso, caught it flat-footed.
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With one on and one out, Marcus Semien grounded a potential double-play grounder toward Moncada, who made a flat-footed, backhanded attempt at the ball, which dribbled through.
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That Chinese companies are aggressively exploring how to save Main Street and middle-class jobs is terrific; that the U.S. and Europe seem all but flat-footed is not.
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Instead of being caught flat-footed, we should agree to some basic principles ahead of time and have a 'break the glass' plan that can serve as a blueprint.
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That would likely bolster Ford's profits in the short run, but it could leave Ford flat-footed if rivals widen their lead on autonomy, ride-hailing, and electric vehicles.
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Mr. Che and his fellow host (and "Saturday Night Live" partner), Colin Jost, followed the opening number with a duologue that cemented the night's rushed, flat-footed, uninspired feeling.
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After years spent fending off attacks from without, from rival financiers to a certain ax-grinding United States attorney, Bobby Axelrod got caught flat-footed by his own protégé.
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In the seventh inning on Wednesday, Ender Inciarte hustled for a double on a routine hit to right, taking advantage of a casual, flat-footed pursuit by Jay Bruce.
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They acknowledge there's not much else he could have done given the lack of precedent for such a protest and the fact that Republicans were admittedly caught flat-footed.
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And it caught President Donald Trump and the White House, who had gone in for embattled GOP nominee Roy Moore even after he seemed left for dead, flat-footed.
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"They had no clue what they needed to do," Hertling said of military leaders, who were caught "flat footed" and continue to try to figure out how to respond.
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"So many people were caught flat-footed on November 8 that it created a vacuum," one former union staffer who worked on labor's response to the Occupy movement told me.
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The government's flat-footed strategy for researching and testing new drugs and the cripplingly high costs of developing therapies spurred black-market clubs that peddled unapproved drugs by the truckload.
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During the fight over the House bill, activists were caught flat-footed after Paul Ryan called off the vote in March, thinking that the bill was dead in the water.
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The big foreign bricks-and-mortar investment promised by Macri never arrived and the central bank appeared flat-footed in dealing with the inflationary threat linked to the subsidy cuts.
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When the House passed the AHCA in May, speed was of the essence: Activists were caught flat-footed and were unable to put pressure on House members in full force.
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More likely, they decided it was better to hop on the cage-free bandwagon now and accept extra costs, rather than be caught flat-footed later and face reputational damage.
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Supposed federal omnipotence and overreach became flat-footed haplessness in one brief, powerful court session, as the 12 jurors were polled about their conclusions, rejecting everything about the government's case.
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He blocked a pass at the right point by Kevin Klein, then beat the flat-footed Klein to the loose puck and steamed toward the goal, chased by Marc Staal.
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A slight variation on a theme was not good enough on Sunday, when the Red Bulls were stymied on offense and then caught flat-footed twice in the final minutes.
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Her flat shots are tricky to read, and she cracked winners off both wings in the early going that left the nervous Williams looking befuddled, flat footed and beside herself.
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Judging by its latest Panglossian assessment of the global economy, it would seem that the World Bank will once again be flat-footed by the next major global economic downturn.
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Hacked emails from campaign chairman John Podesta released on WikiLeaks show that many senior staff were caught flat-footed when the server became public knowledge in March of that year.
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It was an aggressive, specific attack from a fellow Texan that left O'Rourke flat-footed, without a real response — and gave Castro a memorable moment through which to distinguish himself.
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The opening section, for three women and two men, is a black-and-white affair that offsets hyperextension and some rhythmic panache with flat-footed walking and other ostentatious casualness.
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Theresa May led a campaign that even many Conservatives considered to be flat footed and badly run, with the prime minister choosing to rely on a tiny circle of advisers.
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A recent study calculated that Maria killed 2,975, over a longer period, though Mr Trump, sensitive to criticism of his administration's flat-footed response to that disaster, has disputed those figures.
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One thing is certain: it's a post-Flash world out there, and Adobe clearly doesn't want to get caught flat-footed in the upcoming — and current — generation of online content creation.
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The tensions are further exacerbated by the rivalries that always roil Trump's world, with some advisers fretting that the president's nascent reelection campaign is at risk of being caught flat-footed.
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BAML also predicted the second quarter "pain trade" - or unexpected turn in the market that could catch most investors flat-footed - could be to short emerging markets and long U.S. dollar.
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While some bleeding-edge users in automotive, medical and consumer goods have already begun production, many more incumbents will remain flat-footed, leaving room for startups to capture the emergent whitespace.
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"Everyone went drinking after the first one [AHCA] failed, and I think we got caught flat-footed," said one Democratic Party operative, speaking on the condition of anonymity, in an interview.
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On every network, the uncredited co-host was the ghost of 2016, in which journalists were left flat-footed, scrambling for a coverage Plan B, by Donald J. Trump's unexpected win.
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YouTube, Facebook and other top social media websites were caught flat-footed as the livestreamed footage of the nightmarish attack flooded their services, sometimes as quickly as one upload per second.
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But they were largely flat-footed in their efforts to grapple with the racial undertow that sapped her support within the Senate chamber and in much of the African-American community.
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Republicans have been denouncing Obamacare and pledging to repeal and replace it for seven years, only to be caught flat-footed when given the chance to come up with an alternative.
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Caught flat-footed by the influence campaigns of 1003, intelligence agencies and tech companies in the United States have spent months looking for hidden Russian footprints ahead of the midterm elections.
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Caught flat-footed by the influence campaigns of 2016, intelligence agencies and tech companies in the United States have spent months looking for hidden Russian footprints ahead of the midterm elections.
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"High Flying Bird" swoops and cuts through the contradictions of modern culture with the fleet momentum of a power forward destroying a flat-footed defense on his way to the hoop.
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Amazon was caught flat-footed by the opposition, and belatedly mounted a charm campaign, taking out full-page newspaper ads and sending mailers to Queens residents in support of the deal.
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We were giving up some zone time and kind of (get caught) flat-footed and then it's 4-0 at the end of the period and you're pretty much out of it.
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Chrysler, at the time, was caught flat-footed, with cars like the New Yorker, a four-door sedan that was a shade over 19 feet long and weighed more than two tons.
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With Dragic back in the game, Slovenia kept their lead as Spain, led by veteran brothers Pau and Marc Gasol, repeatedly missed shots on offence and were caught flat-footed on defense.
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The company was caught flat footed this week when Michael Avenatti, an attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, named Novartis among those that had made payments to Cohen's firm until January 2018.
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Oil prices are positioned to head higher in the second half, analysts said on Monday, after crude's dismal performance in the first six months of 2017 caught many commodity watchers flat-footed.
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If there's a quibble to the strategy, however, it's that the price and positioning might have caught Bose a bit flat-footed as it became more important for music to be portable.
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Trump caught Congress flat-footed when he backed away from a continuing resolution (CR) in December to fund a quarter of the government because it didn't include extra funding for a wall.
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Tillerson's spokesman, Steven Goldstein, was also fired on Tuesday for contradicting the White House account of Trump's firing of Tillerson, saying the secretary of State was caught flat-footed by the announcement.
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Foles would shoot 30-footers flat-footed, as if they were free throws, and had a tendency to put so much zip on his passes that his teammates had trouble handling them.
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If you're caught flat footed by an enemy while off by yourself or, in a worst case scenario, caught by two or three members of the enemy team, you're dead in an instant.
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Businesses that were caught flat-footed by AI later rushed to catch up — only to find that most of the best and brightest minds had been lured by sexy startups and Big Tech.
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Microsoft may have been caught flat-footed by Google's aggressive willingness to get into the cloud gaming space, and that's why it doesn't have more to say about xCloud at this year's E3.
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When news broke in May 2013 that the Department of Justice had obtained reporters' telephone records as part of a probe into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, we were caught flat-footed.
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Compared to other cities and states which have been caught flat-footed by the virus, San Francisco's early state of emergency is now being lauded as an example of smart and responsible policy.
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Only last week, Tokyo was scrambling to recover after being caught flat-footed by President Trump's abrupt acceptance of an invitation to meet Kim Jong-un personally to discuss North Korea's nuclear program.
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For better or worse, lines like these, from "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," act as though they'd never heard of prose, the flat-footed bureaucrat trying to tame their airborne acrobatics.
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For a town that vigorously huffs and puffs about cybersecurity, it was still quite shocking to see the flat-footed reaction of the political establishment after the DNC discovered it had been hacked.
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Facebook fired its human news editors, and then was caught flat-footed after its algorithms served up a series of fake news articles to humans who were preparing to vote in a monumental election.
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In other words, Samsung didn't anticipate that the Galaxy S6 Edge device would draw such attention last year, and that caught it flat-footed when it wasn't able to fully service demand from customers.
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In both of those instances, he appeared to catch his staff totally flat-footed -- caught unawares that he was going to do what he did, say what he said or tweet what he tweeted.
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Like major international oil and mining companies, Japanese trading firms have been caught flat-footed by the rout in commodities brought about by softening demand in top consumer China, where economic growth has slowed.
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Concerned that other GOP candidates could get caught flat-footed, leaders are now ratcheting up pressure on Republicans in typically safe districts to boost their fundraising efforts and prepare for tighter-than-expected races.
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The spectacle of one boy's agonizing battle against an inflexible bureaucracy has made Prime Minister Theresa May's response look flat-footed, while prompting a wider debate about legalizing the drug itself for recreational use.
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Facebook's policies about misinformation have been vague and inconsistently applied, and the company has appeared flat-footed when dealing with popular purveyors of conspiracy theories and hyperpartisan content such as Mr. Jones and Infowars.
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While the play develops in a similar fashion, Hill's route broke off in a different direction, leaving the 49ers defense flat-footed and giving Hill space to make the biggest play of the game.
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Caught flat-footed, FDA is now scrambling to find alternative sterilizing processes, as the Environmental Protection Agency and states consider tightening emissions standards for these facilities, potentially threatening the industry's ability to continue operating.
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Time and again he bamboozled his hapless opponent with delicate, wonderfully disguised drop shots, leaving the Russian either flat-footed at the back of the court or sprinting frantically to the net in vain.
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Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the committee, said that the Obama administration and states were "caught flat-footed" during the 2016 election, failing to notify the states about the threat until fall 2016.
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During the election, most of them stood very publicly on the opposite side of the political fence and, like many in the media, were probably caught flat-footed by Trump's Electoral College-driven win.
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The string of errors surprised Admiral Harris's bosses at the Pentagon, upset edgy allies and caught the White House flat-footed — especially after President Trump said an "armada" was racing toward the impending crisis.
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The problem of car stereo theft caught insurers flat-footed, according to the Times, which noted that insurers were initially unsure how to handle the claims when they first started popping up in the 1960s.
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But only if access is not equally flat-footed, patchy and piecemeal, with the risk that selective access to ad data ends up being just as controlled and manipulated as everything else on Facebook's platform.
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Penn State struck first when Clifford hit Freiermuth with 249-yard touchdown pass over flat-footed Michigan State defenders, giving the Nittany Lions a 24-0 lead with 6:54 left in the first quarter.
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He may walk away now, if current polls hold, as the overwhelmed "Kenosha political operative" who got caught flat-footed as the Trump Train barreled over his party and plans for a more inclusive GOP.
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The energised minority caught the complacent majority flat-footed; having spent more than a decade laying the groundwork, Republicans took back the House in 1994, and Mr Gingrich became the first Republican Speaker since 1955.
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I mentioned to one of the Yamaha riders that my toes were cramping a bit from the ride and they pointed out that I could be sitting much more flat-footed than I had been.
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GOP lawmakers have been beset by setback after setback — including a president who has repeatedly caught them flat-footed — since voters gave them Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade.
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Not surprisingly, the service appeared reluctant to provide much clarification -- seemingly caught a bit flat-footed in responding to those probing and second-guessing the numbers, given that they were unverified by any third party.
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Because federal agencies and congressional leaders were caught flat-footed by the order, hundreds of U.S. permanent residents with green cards were stranded at airports around the world as officials tried to interpret the order.
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Yet unrest has flared in states ruled by his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), catching regional leaders flat-footed and providing a reality check on Modi's promise to double farmers' incomes over the next five years.
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Even the chef seemed to have been caught flat-footed with his savory truffled tart, which had lost, among other ingredients, its toothsome dinnertime topping—slender disks of rutabaga—and gained a slimy fried egg.
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FEMA recently announced that it was prepared for this hurricane season: after getting caught flat-footed in Hurricane Maria, the agency has filled warehouses with nearly 14 million liters of water and 4 million meals.
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There are some flat-footed attempts at lyricism, or modernization, through the intrusive use of music, or short passages when the cuts come more quickly and the camera moves in for off-center close-ups.
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The takeaway is that Slickwraps may have had comically bad security, leaving it both wide open to breaches like this and flat-footed when it came to responding to any concerns brought to its attention.
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Vladimir Putin pulled off a masterful active measure last week, catching the White House flat-footed when the Russian Foreign Ministry published pictures of Foreign Minister Lavrov, Ambassador Kislyak and President Trump enjoying a joke.
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"That suggests the market got flat footed...We haven't seen this type of price strength since the polar vortex and that came on the heels of bitter cold in the winter of 2013/14," said McGillian.
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To his critics, Sanders' lack of experience — coming up in politics in Vermont — and near lack of black voices among his senior campaign staff left him flat-footed on the intersectional political analysis young activists craved.
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Because when I didn't have an alert, I would be in the middle of an interview with someone like you, and they would ask me about something he tweeted, and I would be caught flat-footed.
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"What happens is an activist is already in the buyer and building a stake and then they get flat-footed when their target announces a deal," said Kai Liekefett, who leads Sidley Austin's shareholder activism practice.
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And GOP senators fumed during a closed-door meeting with Vice President Pence late last year after Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria caught them flat-footed — the president has since backed off his decision.
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But it was a measure of how flat-footed the Ochs-Sulzbergers had been caught by Mr. Dryfoos's death that even names of nonfamily members like Amory H. Bradford and James Reston were floated as prospects.
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Latta said "things are moving ahead" much more rapidly than people would have imagined five years ago, which is why federal regulators need to intervene now so that they don't get caught flat-footed later on.
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Speculation about Russia's announcement grew so intense, including among Syrian government loyalists on social media, that by Monday night, Mr. Assad's office issued a statement to dispel rumors that the president had been caught flat-footed.
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The study, released by the Center for a New American Security, suggests that the U.S. government has been flat-footed in the race, and reprises a refrain that Beijing is richly supporting its own private players.
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He can get caught between stances, however, and where other switch hitters tend to do so amid movement Thatch can be a little flat footed which saw him caught with a bursting punch by Gunnar Nelson.
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As chandeliers dim and the sun begins to rise slowly above the purple-tinged mountain ranges that sit flat-footed on the horizon, another day in some kind of paradise stumbles into view, bleary eyed and faint.
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In a new letter addressed to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Hawaii's Brian Schatz asked the commission to confirm that it won't be caught flat-footed during Wednesday's net neutrality Day of Action.
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After being accused of a flat-footed response to the initial announcement of the sale, British business minister Sajid Javid said he had met Tata in Mumbai to discuss the sale process ahead of its board meeting.
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Against Mr Medvedev, Mr Djokovic hit one-third fewer backhand winners than his usual rate, and a whopping two-thirds fewer winning backhand shots down the line, the highlight-reel statement that often leaves opponents flat-footed.
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In a follow up interview just after the show with Bloomberg News' Mark Halperin, a frequent guest analyst on "Morning Joe," Johnson had said he was "incredibly frustrated" with himself but admitted he'd been caught flat-footed.
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But the government's flat-footed approach to issues like tax overhauls and education funding, and Mr. Turnbull's decision to stick with a conservative party line on same-sex marriage and climate change, have damaged his party's standing.
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Their outside groups were starting to engage in a major way Tuesday, but Kimmel certainly serves as a major boost for anyone who may have been caught flat-footed by the speed with which this is moving.
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Tellingly, fans and broadcasters of male leagues find themselves lauding the feminine-like grace of players such as Stephen Curry and Lionel Messi — whooping at how their studied elegance can outwit their bigger, more flat-footed opponents.
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Speaking with CNBC as a part of its "Crisis on Wall Street: The Week That Shook the World" documentary, which premieres on television Wednesday night, Buffett said many Americans were left flat-footed when the crisis hit.
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But equity strategists say while the speed of the current move in Treasury yields has caught investors flat-footed, a bigger jump in the 10-year yield to over 3 percent could be an even bigger issue.
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Ryan's first novel represents the sunnier side of World War II fiction, where women stand up for one another, frolic with whatever stray men are still about (dashing, flat-footed and otherwise) and solve a few mysteries.
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Dexcom's technology chief admits that the maker of continuous blood sugar monitoring systems was caught flat-footed by a technology outage over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and was ill-equipped to properly inform users of the problem.
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But after being caught flat-footed by Insigne, Madrid renewed the pressure, and Benzema equalized 10 minutes later with a firm header from a perfect cross, curled in by Dani Carvajal with the outside of his shoe.
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If they don't get ahead of it — if they screw around with fancier pickup trucks for the next 5 to 10 years — they will be caught flat-footed, scooped by rivals like Tesla and their European counterparts.
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Silicon Valley was caught flat-footed and open-mouthed in the wake of a traumatizing election season Even if they had expressed these thoughts beforehand, it still might not have mattered: Silicon Valley was, and still is, in its own echo chamber, caught flat-footed and open-mouthed in the wake of a traumatizing election season; building cool new products for people every day but having underestimated the extent to which people were willing to vote for a productized presidential candidate, one who at some level rejects their techno-utopianism.
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"The filmmaking here is so pedestrian, flat-footed and overly-obvious as to leave 'Shock and Awe' one of those second-rate dramatic movies that make you wish that it had been a top-notch documentary instead," RogerEbert.
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Yet repeatedly in recent years the two companies, as well as Twitter, have been caught flat-footed by reports of abuse and manipulation of their platforms by trolls, hate groups, conspiracy theorists, misinformation peddlers, election meddlers and propagandists.
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It is the latest illustration of a style of Russian intelligence operations that has caught the United States and its allies flat-footed, one that draws no clear line between traditional espionage, open criminality, and ambiguous business transactions.
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However, one can hope that they are not unaware about the serious financial market risks that they have created and that they are not again caught flat-footed, as they were in 2008 should those risks indeed materialize.
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In anticipation of a breach and user credentials finding their way to hacker marketplaces for sale, enterprises need to take proactive stance and have a response plan in place — rather than being caught flat-footed by external catalysts.
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The company, which started out by selling its games, was caught flat-footed as consumers gravitated to games offered through a so-called freemium model, in which players download the game for free and pay for additional features.
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The allegations against Franken initially appeared to catch Democratic senators flat-footed, with several declining to weigh in or noting they had just read stories about the incident as they made their way toward the Senate chamber. Sen.
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But many would argue that the US was caught somewhat flat-footed during the 2016 elections when it came to foreign interference, left to do some serious soul-searching and as much cleanup as possible after the fact.
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The industry has known this for a while, but was caught flat-footed in 2017 when it came to doing something about it, largely because they make a lot of money (and figured the issue would eventually go away).
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Stop me if you've heard this one before: Facebook allows a third-party analytics company access to user data, conducts poor oversight of said company, and then is caught flat-footed when asked about the situation by a journalist.
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"There is just a lack of urgency about it," said Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, who added that lawmakers could find themselves facing difficult questions about a flat-footed congressional Zika response as Election Day looms this fall.
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"I was worried after the first debate he might have lost a step," said one Democratic senator, who described the former vice president as having been caught flat-footed after Harris criticized his record on busing to integrate schools.
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Here's why: As the global fallout over Trump's unilateral decision continues to spread, it is increasingly obvious that the Trump administration failed to anticipate the full scope of negative global reaction and has been caught flat-footed in response.
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Spurs defender Toby Alderweireld was a touch fortunate to escape a red card when his desperate tackle ended Pedro's marauding run, but greater punishment was exacted by Willian, who curled a beautiful free kick past a flat-footed Lloris.
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Osahor's mechanics are so unusual — a flat-footed set shot requiring only a strong flick of her wrist — that Neighbors said the first time he saw her shoot, during a scouting trip, he thought it had been an accident.
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Mayweather kept ducking, weaving, and jumping back — he's the most elusive boxer who ever lived, after all — but he looked oddly flat-footed, clumsily bobbing and weaving instead of dancing, and it began to look like McGregor had a chance.
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He noted that since then the amount of money being stolen by fraudsters has only grown, and users continue to be put at risk by major technology platforms and providers being "caught repeatedly flat-footed" in the face of known threats.
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There were few break chances in the opening set but Sharapova was able to convert the two presented to her to take a one-set lead, clinching it with a thundering ace that a flat-footed Sevastova could only watch.
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Senators on both sides of the aisle have publicly chided McConnell for the secretive and rushed process, but the maneuvering has kept Senate Democrats in the dark and has occasionally left the liberal "Resistance" movement to be caught flat-footed.
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The old Apple 'one-sized fits all' philosophy is already very outdated for some users and risks being caught flat-footed on a growing number of fronts — be that if your measure is software 'innovation' or a principled position on privacy.
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Some in Trump World have targeted the White House political office, led by political director Bill Stepien, saying it has been caught flat-footed by the headwinds facing Republicans heading into November and has not done enough to help candidates.
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Trump caught lawmakers flat-footed late last year when he said he would not support a continuing resolution to keep portions of the government open into 2019 because it didn't include more than $5 billion in funding for a border wall.
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In the two weeks since the island was hit, Trump has repeatedly focused attention on Puerto Rico's long-term financial woes and criticized its officials in an attempt to deflect criticism of his administration's flat-footed response to the disaster.
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"There was one man there, a waiter, his name was Klinger, who was a flat-footed man who always got the order wrong," Mr. Finkel recalled in an interview with Richard F. Shepard, The New York Times's Yiddish theater critic.
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Overall, Facebook is trying to do its homework so it's ready for a "heat of the moment, last day before the election scenario" and won't get caught flat-footed, says Facebook's director of Product Management for News Feed Greg Marra.
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Just as with Lyoto Machida, when he gets carried away or takes his finger off the trigger a little, he can be caught flat footed in front of his man, and in this way Woodley decked him in the fourth round.
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Printed on unframed luster paper and pinned directly to the wall, Myles's photographs in poems at Bridget Donahue are taken from the writer's Instagram and don't feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
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The Trump administration has come under fire for being caught flat-footed in regards to the availability of diagnostic testing for the coronavirus as well as problems with the quality of the initial tests that resulted in a slower response time.
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When Apple introduced the iPod in 2001, Gates sent another email: "I think we need some plan to prove that, even though Jobs has us a bit flat footed again, we can move quick and both match and do stuff better."
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President Trump's frustration with Press Secretary Sean Spicer's flat-footed, defensive handling of the Comey firing has even led him to openly discuss the possibility of canceling the daily press briefing altogether, in favor of a biweekly presidential press conference.
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"To be sure, today's trend-following environment has left Baupost looking flat-footed, as some of the publicly-traded bargains we identify and accumulate drift relentlessly lower – even as we believe they demonstrate their underlying value in several ways," Klarman said.
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Its unavoidable heft matches the often deliberately cumbersome, even goofy quality of her ballet-informed steps, like flat-footed loping, or jumps that resist leaving the ground, or, in the spirit of Merce Cunningham, vexing coordinations of the torso and legs.
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It was also refreshing to see their unusually emphatic use of weight as they trotted or jogged backward, swung their torsos in large, slow circles, and took flat-footed balances whose line and gesture had a new kind of volume.
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"As the industry shifts towards EVs (electric vehicles), when it comes to India, our volumes are so large that I worry that we could be caught flat-footed if there was a sudden shift towards electrification," CEO Toshihiro Suzuki said on Thursday.
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With returns being prepared for the first time under new tax law, some people are getting caught flat-footed by owing money to Uncle Sam after past refunds or owing more than anticipated — despite lower marginal income tax rates across the board.
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He blesses himself, punctuates victories with backflips, and in his last fight—against a highly-rated Nicholas Walters—Lomachenko quietly taunted the previously undefeated Jamaican by standing flat footed at the center of the ring with his hands dropped to his sides.
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Because Holt's response was so flat-footed, critics of the industry will have further ammunition for their gripes: book publishing moves too slowly, it has failed to adapt to the modern news ecosystem, it should more readily embrace e-books, and so on.
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The concerns have been magnified in recent months by what seven administration officials and outside advisers -- all of whom back the President -- characterized as a series of flat-footed political moves and missed opportunities that are hampering progress on the President's legislative agenda.
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Billed as a tribute to humanity's fascination with flying, the work draws on images and texts spanning some 3,000 years, and that's about how long it felt, thanks to the flat-footed and dispiriting way in which it was all cobbled together.
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Trump looking flat-footed Trump on the other hand is at the edge of the coronavirus precipice: the US economy risks a steep fall, triggered in part by downplaying the health threat while focusing on the protective powers of America's economic resilience.
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As a result, his legal and public relations strategies have been out of sync, with the president at times publicly contradicting his lawyers, and the White House often finding itself flat-footed in the face of new disclosures about the Russia investigation.
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"The internet giants have learned from the hard lessons of Microsoft, which was caught flat-footed with a sparse lobbying presence in the 1990s when federal antitrust officials called for a breakup of the software giant," Ms. Kang and Mr. Vogel write.
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Mr. Sonnier grew too enamored of assemblage as he got older, and several flat-footed works from the 1990s and 2000s, in which neons entangle found objects like a tomato cage or a plastic canister of Murphy Oil, appear as gaudy Rauschenberg reboots.
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Washington (CNN)Caught flat-footed by the suddenly increasing popularity of the GOP tax plan, leading Democrats are urging the party's candidates to ignore the day-to-day controversies surrounding President Donald Trump's White House and focus their campaigns on the economy.
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Some rank-and-file Republican lawmakers and officials watched his performance during the impeachment hearings with dismay, worried that Mr. Castor seemed outmatched and flat-footed facing a series of witnesses who came ready to offer damning accounts of the president's conduct.
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Tuesday will signify yet another reset for Mr. de Blasio, who halted the opening of new shelters for about eight months in 2015 after community opposition, only to be caught flat-footed and dependent on using hotels as a stopgap as homelessness surged.
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U.S. officials admitted in 2012 that the rise of Islamist groups in Africa, such as Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM), which operates in West Africa and may have been behind the fight with the Green Berets in Niger, had caught them flat-footed.
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The goal was to speed up response times to sudden spikes in misinformation about candidates or how to vote to prevent the company from being caught flat-footed as it was in the 2016 presidential election when Russian agents pumped propaganda into the social network.
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The White House was caught flat-footed by the explosive content in "Fear," Bob Woodward's new book on the Trump administration, as nobody on senior staff had seen a copy when the Washington Post published the excerpts yesterday, according to sources with direct knowledge.
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Here's a list of three instances in just the last month when the unpredictable president caught markets flat-footed: The president said Monday in an interview with Bloomberg News that he is considering breaking up the largest U.S. banks, keeping with a presidential campaign promise.
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After a rather flat-footed response invoking a 40-year-old case, Elrod v Burns, where the court ruled that public employees couldn't be fired for being Democrats, Mr Frost was forced by the chief justice to confront the stranger circumstances of his client's demotion.
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In order to ensure the parade does not leave the military flat-footed, the NDAA "prohibits the use of operational units or equipment in the parade if the secretary of Defense believes such use will hamper readiness," according to the summary of the bill.
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One also must hope that they are drawing up contingency plans for dealing with a bursting of these asset price bubbles and that they are not caught as flat-footed as they were when the U.S. housing and credit market bubbles burst in 2008.
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But Altuve collected five hits in eight at-bats in those games, scoring two of the Astros' four runs, stealing a base to set up one of those runs and generally playing with the kind of energy that made the Yankees appear somewhat flat-footed.
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The Oscars have been caught flat-footed by the persistent demurral of stars unwilling to participate in the once-obligatory step-and-strut, the designer name-checking, the preshow interviews, the scrutiny of the relentless likes of Joan Rivers that left on-air talent floundering.
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And Mr. Muilenburg stayed out of sight — his first substantial public comments came in the form of a statement released more than a week after the crash in Ethiopia — and to many observers, Boeing appeared to be caught flat-footed by the growing public outcry.
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Adam Driver gives a searing performance as a New York theater director who is caught flat-footed when his wife (Scarlett Johansson), an accomplished actress, hires a tough attorney (Laura Dern) and threatens to resettle with their eight-year-old son in Los Angeles.
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The show, organized by the gallery's Director and Curator Hyewon Yi, presents ample evidence that Leigh is a major, albeit under-recognized, American sculptor who has transformed the Minimalist penchant for reductive form and flat-footed fabrication into something of exquisite lightness, sensuality and grace.
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" Progressive groups on the Hill were scarred this May by the suddenness and speed with which House Speaker Paul Ryan successfully rammed through the House health care vote after a previous aborted attempt suggested the bill was dead, with some admitting to getting caught "flat-footed.
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If Amazon wants to roll out Uber for package delivery shipping (its Flex delivery service is a gig economy-style program the company has been offering employees $10,000 to leave their Amazon jobs for), FedEx isn't going to caught flat-footed the way the taxi industry was.
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The Associated Press, which first noticed Rey was still missing, was unable to find any versions including her in the UK. Retailers were initially caught flat-footed by the demand for Rey and other female characters in Star Wars, but they have since started to catch up.
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The denial of a work permit to HRW sparked a wave of bad publicity for Israel, and Gerald Steinberg, the head of NGO Monitor, a group critical of organizations it says are biased against Israel, said Israeli authorities were caught "flat-footed" by the negative media attention.
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"Because the community was caught flat-footed by 2016, we want to be in a position to be prepared this time," said Elan Strait, a former climate negotiator in the Obama administration who worked on the Paris Agreement and who now works at the World Wildlife Fund.
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Facebook was caught flat-footed again Saturday as it scrambled to deal with stories in New York Times and Guardian-owned Observer about user data illicitly obtained by a Trump-linked data analytics firm, including accusations from the British paper that Facebook had threatened it with litigation.
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The only team with a losing record (2-3) to make it out of the group stage, Serbia caught Australia flat-footed holding the misfiring Boomers to just five points in the opening quarter, then put them in a 35-14 halftime hole they could never escape.
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Under attack from his rivals over his policing policies as New York mayor and treatment of women in his private enterprises, he delivered a flat-footed performance that undercut the central argument of his campaign: that he was the candidate best equipped to confront Trump in November.
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But the work abruptly stopped in 2017 amid a bureaucratic dispute over its value, two of the former officials said, leaving the department flat-footed as it seeks to stay ahead of the impact the COVID-19 outbreak is having on vast swaths of the U.S. economy.
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Apparently caught flat-footed, Japanese prosecutors rushed to ask a Tokyo court to rescind Mr. Ghosn's bail, according to the national broadcaster NHK, possibly leaving him to forfeit the $9 million that he had paid for the privilege of living outside jail while he awaited trial.
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While it's not clear what automated filter Tumblr was using, or whether it had created its own — the company did not respond to a request for comment for this story — it's evident that the social network had been caught flat-footed in both its policies and its technology.
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Except for the first round, when the red tassels on Ali's high white shoes flopped in rhythm to his ballerina moves, the deposed titleholder primarily used a flat-footed stance, a radical departure from his floating, stinging style prior to his 3 ½ -year exile that ended last year.
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The dramatic reversal caught many investors flat footed and showed how they have trouble hedging against such shocks even with the help of such tools as exchange-traded funds or computer algorithms designed to capture an electorate's social media vibe, economists, pollsters and fund managers said on Friday.
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Covid-19 is about 80 percent similar to SARS, as Hotez pointed out in his recent testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the United States House of Representatives, but we were caught flat-footed by a fixation on "innovation" and lack of public options.
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Mr. Clinton was at first caught flat-footed to the new political dynamics and had a "mixed record" on the issue, but by the end of his presidency had helped pass some pro-immigrant legislation, said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a pro-immigrant advocacy organization.
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Before Pippa grew into a teen-ager, and lost her nerve, she had been so full of ideas, running in the garden and in races on Sports Day with such flat-footed eager assurance, her plait flicking bossily behind her, her plain long face raised to the sun.
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Six years ago, Disney and Mattel, which at the time was licensed to make Disney's "Frozen" and "Disney Princesses" franchise-related toys, were caught flat-footed by the demand for "Frozen" merchandise after the first film hit theaters during the 2013 holiday season and enjoyed major box office success.
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"This board was not only caught flat-footed by the food safety scandal, but even worse, has failed to draw lessons for itself from what is the most significant failure to oversee risk one could imagine under its watch," Dieter Waizenegger, Executive Director of the CtW Investment Group, said in a statement.
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Only one content management vendor was really in a position to do that at the time, and that was Box, a company that was born in the cloud and understood the mobile-cloud connection much better than than its legacy counterparts who were caught flat-footed and forced to play catch-up.
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" "Even though it's cheaper and easier to contain disease at its source rather than waiting for it to hop a ride on one of the millions of worldwide airline flights, the post-Ebola investments made to be sure we weren't caught flat-footed for the next public health crisis have been slashed.
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Washington (CNN)Democrats, believing they are on the verge of retaking the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, have redoubled their strategy of talking about health care as often as possible and in deeply personal terms, something Republican operatives now admit has caught them flat footed this midterm election year.
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With this context, it's relatively easy to see how YouTube went from budding next-generation cable TV to the site described in Mark Bergen's article for Bloomberg this month: continually caught flat-footed in the face of deadly viral "challenges," murderous live-streams, conspiracy theorists, and white nationalists catapulted into popularity by YouTube's own algorithms.
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The spectacle of actors of the quality of Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Janet McTeer, Octavia Spencer and Jane Fonda earnestly struggling to wring eye moisture from hammy, flat-footed dialogue (credited to Brad Desch, an unknown), while maintaining some dignity, is depressing proof that an actor is only as good as his or her material.
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It could help Biden allay the doubts of Democratic voters who have continually complained in interviews that the former vice president is too soft-spoken; too slow compared to his pace in the 2008 and 2012 campaigns; and too flat-footed when attacked during debates by the likes of Kamala Harris and Julián Castro.
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The Pentagon, though, has pushed back at the perception it was caught flat-footed, insisting Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE was consulted and not surprised by the move.
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But Republicans were caught flat-footed by Trump's controversial policy, and the administration dispatched Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE to a closed-door GOP lunch to try to explain the administration's thinking.
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But as the amount of TV shows has exploded in the past decade, the Emmys has seemed like it's trying to keep pace and the Globes has been caught flat-footed, increasingly trapped by its own evident lack of interest in trying to reward artistically relevant TV in favor of stuff that might allow famous actors to turn up at their awards ceremony.
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" In Florida, the Trump campaign's reliance on the state party there has left them flat-footed and far behind where Mitt Romney was in 2012 in a state where organizing is key One former Florida state party operative noted that, in 2008 and 2012, the GOP nominee "accelerated" what the state party already had in place by "essentially doubling the presence — the number of staff, volunteers, doing data collection and voter registration.
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The Pentagon has been caught flat-footed after President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, with defense officials struggling to explain statements coming out of Moscow that the two leaders reached agreements involving military issues.
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They will have certain levels of strength and mixes of monsters, but you can still be caught flat-footed by a wave that contains a ton of the giant "Chubby" type zombies that can soak tons of damage while they batter at your walls (though it'd be nice, for a change of pace, if there were a zombie game that didn't imply that there is an inherent monstrousness to fat people that renders them into terrifying monsters come the apocalypse).
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Director of National Intelligence Dan CoatsDaniel (Dan) Ray Coats11 Essential reads you missed this week Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move Hillicon Valley: Deepfakes pose 2020 test for media | States beg Congress for more election security funds | Experts worry campaigns falling short on cybersecurity | Trump officials urge reauthorization of NSA surveillance program MORE was caught flat-footed at the Aspen Security Conference when MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell informed him that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE had invited his Russian counterpart to Washington.
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