He was ashamed of the way he stumbled over syllables.
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Foxconn and Sharp have stumbled over deals in the past.
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Joe Biden had a strong start, but stumbled over race.
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However, he stumbled over the spelling of the latter insult.
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Teachers stumbled over my surname, looking perplexed even after my corrections.
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Apple shares have stumbled over the past year, losing about 30 percent.
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Yesterday I stumbled over the perfect complement to the Chinese-American standoff.
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Like many politicians, she occasionally stumbled over a word before correcting herself.
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It was heavier than I expected; I stumbled over the bunker's threshold.
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Remember how Republican Donald Trump stumbled over his disavowal of white supremacists?
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Our political process is not a mineral vein that early colonists stumbled over.
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Several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's actions have stumbled over the standing hurdle.
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He stumbled over one of Roussel's byzantine novels while browsing through a used bookstore.
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He stumbled over the line, but that's his core message in the debate tonight.
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Biden stumbled over his talking points and came off as far too old-fashioned.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Tuesday stumbled over questioning from GOP Sen.
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While helping him, another Ranger stumbled over to Bowen, blood pouring from his neck.
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Throughout it all, the church stumbled over itself to protect its priests and its reputation.
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Walking to the train station through dimly lit streets, I stumbled over a protruding stone.
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Another witness said he stumbled over body parts when he entered the room in the dark.
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"She fell and people just stumbled over her in the panic of the moment," he said.
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He wouldn't read a script—he stumbled over the words and got the enunciation all wrong.
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However, deal talks have stumbled over valuation because of contingent liabilities, one of the sources said.
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One of my mother's drinking cronies, a needling terror of a woman, stumbled over to us.
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You could hear it when she stumbled over words and see it in her nonverbal expressions.
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When announcing the nominees for best director, presenters stumbled over the order when they got to Moonlight.
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The Republican candidate appeared to be shouting at some points and stumbled over his words at others.
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He did better during the second round, but still stumbled over his own words and appeared tired.
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Once, when I had to fire a project lead on my team, I stumbled over my words.
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Trump responded that the U.S. needed a "better deal" with Cuba, but stumbled over what exactly that meant.
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But Republicans have stumbled over questions about whether they'll maintain coverage for everyone who gained it under Obamacare.
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He hated Teleprompters; he stumbled over words, launched insulting ad-libs, and professed contempt for the whole process.
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This week, CNN host Wolf Blitzer corrected Spicer's pronunciation on live TV after Spicer stumbled over the name. .
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Duff then stumbled over his answer before finally saying that whatever he says would just be a guess.
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FRIEDMAN In those early rooms, I stumbled over the camp side of things as it related to fashion.
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"I took it out of the oven and stumbled over the chair," she told The Times in 1985.
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Overall, the GOP primaries were populated by candidates who stumbled over themselves in pledging their fealty to the president.
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But the group also included pedestrians who were struck by scooter riders or who stumbled over a discarded scooter.
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Their hopes of reinstating a king or queen in Romania have stumbled over the problem of agreeing on an heir.
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He stumbled over a barbecue grill and bumped into an apartment door, where a man named Thomas Clement was inside.
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But he took on the bullies in the playground and mocked them in class as they stumbled over their lessons.
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I was outspoken and spirited at home, but once I stepped into a social setting I stumbled over my sentences.
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Writing novels was a profession he had backed into, or stumbled over, or sat down on very suddenly and broken.
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When I finally found an ape trafficker and had him on the phone, I stumbled over what, exactly, to say.
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The result marks a step forward for Lanchester, a formidably intelligent author who has sometimes stumbled over his undeniable gifts.
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I stumbled over my answers and forgot basic vocabulary words, the uncomfortable moment in the makeup room crowding my mind.
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In August, Hassan stumbled over whether she believes Clinton is trustworthy and dodged the question several times in an interview.
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I can recall the very moment when we stumbled over the cache of sculptures at the base of an earthen pyramid.
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And he could force Jeb Bush to confront the decision to invade Iraq, an issue the candidate stumbled over early on.
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I hope I'm not the only reader who stumbled over this equation, "success = becoming extremely rich by U.S.A. standards." ept, Wisconsin
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"Imagine for a moment that Matthew stumbled over the rock and continued following his dog without noticing the fossil," they added.
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Rather, Mr. Moore said, he stumbled over a link in 0003 when K2 Intelligence assigned him to go back to Thailand.
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Your mileage may vary, as always, and if you stumbled over any of them, please let me know in the comments.
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The GOP's presumptive presidential nominee stumbled over the "Brexit" concept during an interview with reporter Michael Wolff in The Hollywood Reporter.
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Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday morning stumbled over basic questions from GOP Sen.
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He stumbled over his words, seemingly reciting a script as he faced me, looking at my face but not quite seeing me.
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Unfortunately, her efforts weren't good enough and Paltrow, who stumbled over the final lyrics, was aggressively sprayed in the face with water.
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Schmolz+Bickenbach's 2015 report was emblematic of Vekselberg's suffering Swiss empire that has stumbled over exposure to slumping oil and gas prices.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the current frontrunner, stumbled over his talking points and faced some devastating one-liners from his opponents.
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A previous run for speaker ended badly in 2015, when he stumbled over public remarks and lost support among hard-line conservatives.
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Meanwhile, Republican efforts to repeal the healthcare law have stumbled over an inability so far to come up with a comprehensive replacement plan.
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He stumbled over repudiating David Duke, the former leader of the Klan, during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper during the presidential campaign.
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Their 18-year-old son, Jason, who has autism and could not walk until he was 6, stumbled over the creaky, uneven floorboards.
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Myeshia Johnson and members of her family on the call with Trump said the president stumbled over her husband's name and upset them.
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The problem is that, new technology aside, Starry is still using an underlying approach known as fixed wireless that has stumbled over time.
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Freedom Party members have repeatedly stumbled over Nazi scandals and made headlines in local media for alleged links with the far-right Identitarian movement.
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" She adds, "But he couldn't remember the key points and stumbled over the large words, which we scratched out and replaced with simpler terms.
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And while doing so, I stumbled over something I'd downloaded months ago and completely forgotten about: a demo collecting stages from all three BoxBoy!
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The video of Pelosi was slowed to make her speech seem slurred and edited to make it appear she repeatedly stumbled over her words.
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Her eyes seemed wider than usual and the normally-chatty Williams often stumbled over her words and left awkwardly-long pauses during their conversation.
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Mr. Bush also stumbled over whether he would have supported the ill-fated war in Iraq waged by his brother, President George W. Bush.
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Clinton's campaign has stumbled over that same period and her post-convention polling bounce finally crumbled, which is what post-convention polling bounces do.
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He was a superstar, wholly and completely, despite his limited moveset and the way he slurred and stumbled over his promos even when sober.
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But the deal has stumbled over how to deal with Adwen, Gamesa's 50-50 joint venture with French state-owned nuclear group Areva. AREVA.
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It examined the case of a Canadian Army private who stumbled over a chalk cliff on the coast of France in 1916 and lived.
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It was Mr. Houston who, after more than three fruitless hours, stumbled over a mound of dirt covered with sagebrush, mesquite and cholla cactus.
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On the downside, his forced humor was off-putting, and he stumbled over some of his answers, never finishing his thought on several occasions.
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That same week, in separate media appearances, she stumbled over questions about Trump's school safety plan — even though she's tasked with heading up the committee.
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A large number of high-ranking executives have left in the past two years, and Tesla has stumbled over basic tasks like delivering its cars.
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Australia's exciting plan to introduce a fresh $5 bank note has stumbled over its first hurdle — vending machines, poker machines and self service check-outs.
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Trayvon Bromell's dip for the line was so aggressive that he stumbled over and the United States thought they were settling for bronze in 37.62.
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Virginia Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart on Monday stumbled over a question about what mandated the separation of children and parents at the southern border.
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He recalled how he stumbled over and mispronounced several words while delivering his dissent from the bench in the case of Citizens United v. FEC.
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Though she was never charged, her husband's crimes damaged her political hopes; a Senate run in 2005 collapsed after she stumbled over her announcement speech.
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"'Sir' is associated with respect to an extent that 'ma'am' is not," Dr. Tannen said, noting that she, too, had occasionally stumbled over such words.
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We were loading up our paper napkins when a drunk Frenchman stumbled over and began dipping pieces of bruschetta into the bowl of tomato salad.
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And Biden stumbled over the invasion-of-space and Anita Hill questions, both of which were among the most foreseeable early questions of his campaign.
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Ever so gently, he lifted her to the couch and then stumbled over to the closet, blood and mucus turning his face into a nightmare mask.
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The political newcomer has particularly stumbled over national security and foreign policy questions -- critical issues in a state that has a large military and veterans community.
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The container I found was in the roots of a big tree, and my date caught me as I stumbled over it, which was pretty romantic.
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SAN FRANCISCO — As Twitter has tried to draw bright lines between what is acceptable and not acceptable on its platform, it has stumbled over them itself.
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"That's actually better!" he said more than once when a cast member stumbled over the written words but ended up saying something that sounded more natural.
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ET: Zuckerberg gets the opportunity to circle back on an issue he stumbled over in the Senate: user tracking when users aren't logged in to Facebook.
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Minutes later, a well-respected evangelical radio host nearly stumbled over the same man -- but not before exclaiming "God bless you" and getting into his car.
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He also stumbled over questions on his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, appearing to say on an ABC interview that Russia had not seized the Crimea.
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"Adrian, come here, I want to ask you a question," said Trump, who repeatedly stumbled over the proper acronym for Customs and Border Protection throughout his speech.
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As Dowd rattled off a series of questions about the investigation into Russian interference in the 85033 election, Trump reportedly stumbled over his answers and contradicted himself.
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A key question in Monday's ruling, as in past challenges to redistricting, was whether that division was unacceptably partisan, a question that previous courts have stumbled over.
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He stumbled over questions about race and marijuana legalization, and when asked about domestic violence, he said we have to "keep punching" at a solution. Yikes. 3.
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Bettina Rehnert The AfD has pressed its advantage as Merkel and Saxony's leaders have stumbled over each other to respond to the events of the past two weeks.
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When I told him that, in fact, he'd been an engineer before he died, the actor — a smooth-talking charmer — stumbled over his words and stuttered multiple apologies.
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One case is Kidogo, co-founded by Sabrina Habib after she nearly stumbled over supine infants on the floor of a badly-run day-care centre in Nairobi.
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Leaders including Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have publicly stumbled over the issue, leading to claims that the tech companies are amplifying hateful rhetoric.
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A player for Manchester City had broken away toward the goal, but at his moment of opportunity he stumbled over, collapsing and then recoiling, his face contorted in agony.
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Between accolades for his father, the younger Trump stumbled over a basic rule of politics: Never boast about how you will benefit politically from the misfortune of your constituents.
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He stumbled over his words, he failed to build momentum, and he continuously relied on the legacy of former President Barack Obama when asked to discuss his own achievements.
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Now, they may have stumbled over precisely such an offense while continuing to reassure their voters that, if they only had a clear case, they would move forward aggressively.
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Biden stumbled over Obama's name one time and didn't give a full-throated defense of his time as Obama's VP until an hour and thirty minutes into the debate. Unforgivable.
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This was an odd event, but also Luger really was just kind of a hapless goof at this stage of his career; he regularly flubbed spots or stumbled over promos.
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As Dowd went through a number of questions related to the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump reportedly lost his temper and stumbled over answers.
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From the moment the trial opened, Kobach and his co-counsels in the Kansas secretary of state's office, Sue Becker and Garrett Roe, stumbled over the most basic trial procedures.
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Subsequent talks on how to carry out the deal quickly stumbled over how quickly North Korea should dismantle its nuclear program and when the United States should start lifting sanctions.
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Facebook and Twitter may have stumbled over the last month, but shares of smaller internet companies Zillow and Twilio have surged in 2018, while Etsy shares have more than doubled.
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The Basel Committee of banking supervisors from across the world had hoped to complete the rules in January, but stumbled over one element yet to be resolved by its oversight body.
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I nearly stumbled over it as I had covered my eyes to protect them from sand and grit whipped up by the unusually strong wind blowing off Nice's Bay of Angels.
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And speaking to reporters the day after unveiling her Medicare for all financing plan, she uncharacteristically stumbled over the specifics, insisting, incorrectly, that only billionaires would see their taxes go up.
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On the morning of the fourth day, the mage emerged, on his way to somewhere else, and was alarmed and scared as he stumbled over the candlemaker's daughter, still waiting there.
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Witten often stumbled over his lines — his most notable moment was when he said that the N.F.L. had gone "left wing" in its protection of quarterbacks — and sometimes spoke in platitudes.
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That was in part, lawmakers acknowledged, because of Ms. White's performance at her hearing in which she not only espoused controversial views on climate change but also stumbled over science questions.
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A few days later, in an interview with MSNBC, Trump stumbled over a question about his position on abortion, saying women who undergo the procedure should be "punished" if abortion is outlawed.
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Previously in this campaign cycle, Trump has stumbled over questions about Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory Crimea and called for Russians to find missing emails from Clinton's time as secretary of state.
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On Thursday, Reid, 42, appeared on Today Extra on Australia's Channel Nine to promote The Last Sharknado, and for much of it, she stumbled over her words, spoke slowly and often trailed off.
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Mr. McCarthy was the presumed heir apparent, but he stumbled over policy pronouncements and infuriated allies by blurting out that a committee investigating the Benghazi attacks was created to sink Hillary Clinton's popularity.
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Heck, a three-term congressman, led in the polls for months but stumbled over supporting Trump after a 2005 tape surfaced of the GOP nominee discussing groping and kissing women without their consent.
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He clearly didn't know who I was, and I stumbled over my explanation as to why I, a strange woman who had seemingly broken into his home, was about to take a nap.
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His campaign later stumbled over releasing a list of disputed endorsements of Buttigieg's Douglass Plan, a policy proposal that targets systemic racism, and the use of a stock image of a Kenyan woman.
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But in the hospital, he tried to read to his comatose wife and while doing so, stumbled over the words in the children's reader, slowly enunciating syllables that were difficult for him to pronounce.
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Several months before her entrance, she stumbled over a DNA test that she said helped prove her past claims of Native American heritage but was criticized as insensitive to members of Native American tribes.
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The balance indicator appeared again, but before I could react Sam stumbled over a small rock and went head over heels in five jarring somersaults before regaining his footing and coming to a halt.
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If you'll recall, there was a similar moment back in 2015 when Jennifer Lawrence stumbled over her ballgown on her way to make her own acceptance speech, with Cooper and Jackman rushing over to help.
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The president-elect, who promised to abstain from the lavish lifestyle of Mexico's political elite — to the point of saying he would sell the presidential plane and fly commercial — has even stumbled over image issues.
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For years, cable news networks have stumbled over how they cover climate change, like last week when CNN gave a platform to former Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay to rebuke, incorrectly, a recent accurate report.
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She also joined her older sister on stage at Coachella last month in which the two stumbled over each other but laughed it off in front of thousands of people showing the strength of their bond.
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Top Trump administration officials have stumbled over the agreement's shorthand, which linguists say is tricky to verbalize because it is an initialism rather than an acronym, like Nafta, which slides off the lips like a word.
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Rome has passed measures to speed up the loan recovery process but a more ambitious plan repeatedly stumbled over stricter rules on state aid that Europe introduced after the financial crisis, in order to shield taxpayers.
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Scar #1: along my hairline, my glorious strong hairline, a small vertical slice where, as a three-year-old, I stumbled over while playing on an allotment and fell head-first onto a broken glass lemonade bottle.
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The reemergence of the divisive ex-president, who had been climbing in the polls as incumbent Mauricio Macri stumbled over a biting recession and high inflation, had hammered the peso currency and caused bond yields to spike.
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The usually affable Morris was more pointed than angry, and admittedly a little wound up since he stumbled over his words a couple of times and finally interrupted an answer to say he was just talking too fast.
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" Alvarez continued to the outlet: "When he got up, he immediately grabbed his chest and stumbled over to the exit and then fell to the ground again grabbing his chest before he could get out of the area.
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Maybe, in the absolute best-case scenario, Rubio stumbled over his words — campaigning is hard work, and we all say weird stuff when we get exhausted — and did not mean what his comments seem to say at all.
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Tom Brady lobbed a fourth-down pass in the direction of tight end Rob Gronkowski, who stumbled over safety Kam Chancellor as the ball fell incomplete with 11 seconds remaining, ensuring the road win for Seattle (6-2-1).
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ISTANBUL — Efforts by Turkey this week to repair relations with the United States and Europe stumbled over deepening concerns about the length and breadth of its state of emergency, which has been used to round up tens of thousands.
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Big-data projects everywhere—such as the attempt by Britain's National Health Service to create a nationwide medical database—have stumbled over the problem of how to prevent incorrect information from fouling the system (this undermined the Suining experiment, too).
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It is a commonly held belief that Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential race partially because he had a poor television presence during the debates, as he stumbled over words and sweated profusely, at least compared to John F. Kennedy.
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She called the colleges created to serve black students -- who were barred from then-white only schools -- as "pioneers" of school choice, and stumbled over questions about how she might handle private schools that receive federal funding and discriminate in admissions.
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Just a few feet from where the pipeline passed through an alfalfa field, the dead seem to have fallen in heaps, perhaps as they stumbled over each other or tried to help one another as the geyser of gasoline turned to flames.
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Some of them stumbled over the pairing of Didion's brilliance with her gender: Melvin Maddocks of the Christian Science Monitor cryptically remarked, in what appeared to be a compliment: Journalism by women is the price the man's world pays for having disappointed them.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, embroiled in a dispute with Boeing Corp, tried to hit out at the U.S. firm for the second day in a row on Thursday but stumbled over whether talks over a proposed jet purchase had been suspended or not.
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To cover up that it was Hannah's tapes, he casually threw out Ultravox but stumbled over Duran Duran as if the former were a name any Millennial might know and the latter weren't ground into public consciousness as the poster boys for early MTV.
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Corbyn, leader of the leftist Labour Party who is standing on a platform of higher taxes on the wealthy, higher public spending and higher investment, stumbled over how much money it would take to broaden provision of free child care in a BBC radio interview.
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After downing four shots each, the financier and his associates egressed the cage, divested themselves of their ideologically laden attire, and stumbled over to some stripper poles, where they permitted themselves to dance, clumsily and with inane delight, to "Celebration," by Kool & the Gang.
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Mr. Biden won applause as he recalled the gains for women in the Affordable Care Act, noting that "pregnancy can't be a pre-existing condition" any longer, but he stumbled over the statistics as he sought to highlight South Carolina's high rate of maternal mortality.
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Even as congressional committees have stumbled over partisanship in their own probes of Russia's interference, the FBI seems to have been driving forward at an aggressive pace, continuing to give strong indications about evidence that Trump campaign officials were in contact with Russian officials during the campaign.
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When pressed by "Rising" co-host Krystal Ball on what law required separations, Stewart stumbled over his answer that it was a law required by the Department of Health and Human Services "to take care of the children" while border agents arrest and incarcerate the parents.
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President Donald Trump's acting secretary of the Department for Homeland Security stumbled over basic questions on how the administration is preparing for the novel coronavirus, incorrectly telling a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that the mortality rate of the new virus is similar to that of the seasonal influenza.
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Satellite transmission lags clearly marred the dialogue at key moments, and while Biden avoided any gaffes, he repeatedly stumbled over words or shifted directions mid-sentence — reminders that for all he's ridden the Obama legacy to front-runner status, he's not even close to his former boss's equal as a public communicator.
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New Hampshire — Kelly AyotteKelly Ann AyotteTrump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire Key endorsements: A who's who in early states Sinema, Gallagher fastest lawmakers in charity race MORE (R) Along with Toomey and Heck, the New Hampshire Republican has repeatedly stumbled over explaining her support for Trump.
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The administration indicated at the time that the US was prepared to keep using force if Assad used chemical weapons again, but the administration hasn't spelled out a broader strategy for how to wind down the conflict — and has even stumbled over the basic but vital question of whether Trump believes Assad must go.
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Those records contained evidence that the police had another possible suspect for Ms. Watson's murder — another young man at the party named John W. Jones Jr. In a statement, Mr. Jones, who has since died, told the police he had stumbled over Ms. Watson's body in the empty lot after leaving the party drunk, Mr. Sini said.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE waded into the controversy, tweeting a clip from Fox Business Network that compiled every time Pelosi stumbled over her words during a recent press conference.
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Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Tuesday that he doesn't believe Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is a role model for children, one day after another vulnerable GOP incumbent stumbled over the question.
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He was wearing an untucked shirt, baggy jeans, and beat-up hiking boots, and halfway through his reading, when he stumbled over a line he had written a decade earlier, he said, "Fuck, man, I need a drink," and about seven minutes after that a guy from my program passed a six-pack of beer up onto the stage, and the man yanked off a can, popped it open, and guzzled.
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"What we have really, truly seen, to an extraordinary extent, is that Trump himself and his Cabinet have stumbled over these rules," Eisen said, pointing to high-profile departures of Trump Cabinet officials, including former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and the investigations into Zinke along with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who both faced Hatch Act violations.
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Read more:Trump's acting Homeland Security chief was excoriated by a GOP senator as he stumbled over basic questions on coronavirus preparationRush Limbaugh is under fire for claiming the coronavirus is a 'common cold' being 'weaponized' to bring down TrumpAmericans are being told to prepare for a coronavirus outbreak — but US health agencies lack funding, and disease testing lags behindPublic health experts warn Trump's history of lying about crises is a 'real problem' as he downplays coronavirus and contradicts the CDC
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