| His reluctance to be leader combined with his recent rather embarrassing gaffes has, however, compelled me to examine the alternatives. |
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| He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round. |
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| Even soldiers who sought to behave well in billets were not immune from gaffes. |
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| He's also not bashful about experimenting with them while recording, which makes for some pretty funny gaffes. |
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| I kept things moving reasonably well and didn't commit any major gaffes or trip over my words too badly. |
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| With respect to the film itself, there are many who take pride in highlighting the several goofs and gaffes on display. |
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| Later the Academy went back to the jury system and now seems settled into a fairly established routine without too many gaffes. |
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| God knows he's served up enough gaffes in the past, only to come up smelling of roses each time. |
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| But the prime minister is also known for unstatesmanlike gaffes and occasionally losing his temper. |
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| Embarrassment concerns lighter social gaffes and violations of decorous comportment. |
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| Several of his major gaffes were simple mistakes of technique, which over time can be corrected. |
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| He was a keen humorist and sometimes it was hard to tell which of his remarks were jokes and which were gaffes. |
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| Finally, the book suffers from an unfortunate number of errors which exceed the allowable limit for typographical gaffes. |
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| The incident is the latest in a string of embarrassing security gaffes to affect the software giant. |
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| I've made a couple of gaffes with experiments in all-night bleaching lately. |
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| History has shown that the Blackhawks lose players because they won't pay fair market value, then overpay others with lesser talent to make up for their gaffes. |
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| A delegator by nature, he has stuck by the same tight circle of long-standing aides, even as the number of gaffes has risen. |
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| Criticism, missteps and gaffes began to characterize news coverage. |
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| His gaffes and indiscretions brings us into a universe comic, tender and warm. |
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| Yes, the 48-year-old Treasury secretary works hard and yes, he is a quick study who recovers rapidly from his gaffes. |
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| A good strategery plan before quoting gaffes is to know your enemy. |
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| Still, the Dodger skip delighted in watching the writer's gaffes. |
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| We all know some of the famous gaffes that have been performed. |
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| Each hostile inquiry slipped off that highly polished veneer, leaving behind no gaffes to trouble Conservative spinners. |
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| The current minister's gaffes and security concerns have forced the government to sideline him to minimize the damage. |
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| What Canadians have received from the government and its ministers in the last few months is a series of gaffes and blunders. |
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| The problem is that since his retirement from politics, no politician seems to happen to her ankle on gaffes. |
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| It is, say officials, so harshly critical, so voracious in its search for blunders or gaffes, that it has frightened politicians into a state of frozen neutrality. |
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| A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season. |
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| He will perform this role very well, especially if he curbs his gaffes that have already begun to irritate the White House. |
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| First, the Texas governor will have to explain away the manifold gaffes and failures from his last presidential campaign. |
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| The ladies did not speak English and Anna certainly did not speak Siamese as can be seen by some of her linguistic gaffes in her original books on the subject. |
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| When pundits expected his verbal gaffes to mark him as unqualified, instead the bloopers raised his stature as a guy too tough to crack a sissified book. |
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| Indeed, their tradition of etiquette is so complex that they expect foreigners to commit gaffes and seldom take offense when it happens. |
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| Bemusingly, he demanded a government apology. Such gaffes and inexperience made Mr Kaczynski easy to lampoon. |
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| The current Minister of National Defence is a burden, because of his gaffes. |
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| The Cultural Cold War contains some silly mistakes and some real gaffes. |
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| Clearly, everything must be done in order to completely do away with Patent No EP 69 53 51 and any similar gaffes. |
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| He was forced to resign from the position of transport secretary at the end of May after an 11-month tenure marked by a series of gaffes and blunders. |
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| A junkyard dog by his own admission, Mr Abbott once had a reputation for gaffes. |
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| The Miliband camp believed he had run a strong, tight campaign with few gaffes that apparently kept his Labour party neck-and-neck with the Conservatives in the opinion polls. |
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| Ms. Banerjee's gaffes and conspiracy theories in recent past have been a major source of embarrassment to the party and government officials alike, say party insiders and bureaucrats. |
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| Nor can they portray him as a hapless egghead, as they did Mr Ignatieff's predecessor, Stéphane Dion, a former university professor. Mr Trudeau has a habit of making gaffes. |
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| Because Mr Miliband is having such a dreadful time, prone to weekly gaffes, execrable personal ratings and hostile briefings from within his kitchen cabinet, Labour minds are naturally turning to the next leadership contest. |
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| We chuckle over gaffes like this, but our chuckles have a defensive ring, because we know that most of the time computers can do a lot of things quicker and more accurately than we can do them ourselves. |
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| In 2006, when Katz defeated a relatively weak three-candidate field of challengers, his strategy involved saying as little as possible and avoiding major gaffes. |
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| They remark on how frequently audiences seem unaware of such gaffes. |
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| In the 2004 election, the Liberal attack ads on Stephen Harper and the hidden Conservative agenda were effective because they were performance-validated by gaffes in the Conservative campaign. |
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| As soon as the trainee starts to solo on different elements of the program, the trainer begins making spot checks and testing to see if deliberate gaffes are noted. |
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| Cultural literacy is a key element in developing a competitive edge in the global market place and avoiding catastrophic marcomm gaffes or misunderstandings. |
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| In this last capacity he was prone to gaffes and generally uninspiring. His main rival is Jarosław Kaczyński, the late president's monozygotic twin, former prime minister and leader of PiS, the main opposition party. |
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| Perry's last bid for the GOP nomination was marred by one of the most memorable gaffes of the 2012 cycle, even as the moment came at a time when his campaign was all but over. |
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| The American ince cream company's fortune-cookie brain freeze follows a series of racially insensitive gaffes about the rising basketball star. |
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| Here's a world where much more energy is expended on spinning gaffes and molding sound bites than creating sound policy. |
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| There were many amusing gaffes and Julia was always ready with a riposte. |
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| The European captain has been visiting a specialist in London to avoid the pratfalls of Faldo in 2008 where he made a series of gaffes at Valhalla. |
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| Most of these gaffes seem to exist only in the minds of commentators and seem to be entirely dependent on their viewpoint, which has long been predetermined. |
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| If someone you've disemvowelled comes back and behaves, forgive and forget their earlier gaffes. You're acting in the service of civility, not abstract justice. |
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| He wrote and narrated Goals Galore, Pranks Galore, Football Gaffes Galore and TV Gaffes Galore. |
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