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  • n  the property of favoring one foot over the other (as in kicking a ball)

  • And you don't want to know what happens to the pony, a Bat Mitzvah gift to a crime boss's daughter, when a fit of zeal overcomes the cops' habitual wrong-footedness.
  • His sure-footedness in such terrain has a new test now that Balkan history is going through another lethal twist.
  • But only slow-footedness has kept newspapers from dominating online classifieds.
Quotes

  • Dan Balz in Newsweek
    This morning, Dan Balz, the Washington Post's campaign correspondent emeritus, wrote that Pawlenty "has said and done things that have other Republicans wondering about his instincts and his sure-footedness as a prospective 2012 presidential...
  • Tim Pawlenty in Wall Street Journal
    On CBS's "Face the Nation" Gov. Pawlenty accused Sen. Obama of "a lack of sure-footedness" in the Georgia crisis.
  • Joschka Fischer in guardian.co.uk
    Interviewed in the mass-circulation Bild newspaper, Mr Fischer said Angela Merkel's opposition to Turkish membership of the EU showed her "lack of sure-footedness" on foreign policy.

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