(1) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(2) Every time he opened his mouth he created another gaffe," he said.
(3) This is, admittedly, a difficult area for David Cameron, who, when questioned by David Letterman on US TV in 2012, was unable to say that Magna Carta simply meant great charter, but perhaps we should overlook this fairly amazing gaffe (for an Oxford-educated prime minister) and encourage him to inaugurate a national movement of political renewal with the charter as the context and inspiration.
(4) Mitt Romney's historic gaffe caught on video – published, with great timing, by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine – in which he said that his campaign was writing off 47% of American voters since they "depended on government" handouts, was committed in an equally significant manner, as he delivered the remarks to a closed group of potential major donors in Florida.
(5) There is strikingly little support for the Republican contender whose gaffe-prone visit to Europe in July won him few friends and who regularly turns European welfarism and "entitlement societies" into points of mockery in his campaign speeches.
(6) Following controversy over the candidate's comments on the preparedness of London to host the Olympic Games, his aides will be anxious to avoid further gaffes.
(7) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
(8) The comedy, in which she stars as gaffe-prone vice-president Selina Meyer, has been seen as a personal triumph for Louis-Dreyfus, as well as a stateside vindication for the comic method of its creator, Armando Iannucci .
(9) Roe worried about “all these gaffes” that Biden made as well as whether the 72-year-old had the necessary energy to serve in the Oval Office.
(10) Photograph: Barcroft Media Newsnight's new editor, former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, also has form with the comic sidestep after his Twitter "snoring, boring" gaffe about Rachel Reeves.
(11) Campaigning before the June election Demirtaş had been full of mischief, needling Erdoğan, making fun of the AKP’s gaffes.
(12) Gaffes are a feature of politicians and the electoral process, not a bug.
(13) In one high-profile gaffe, the expertise of one member of Macierewicz’s commission was revealed to have been based upon experience of constructing model aircraft, sitting in a fighter jet’s cockpit during an air show, and observing plane wings while looking out of a passenger window.
(14) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(15) You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Sean Spicer apologizes for 'even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons' gaffe Read more Spicer’s assertion during the Jewish holiday of Passover provoked instant outrage on social media and from some Holocaust memorial groups, who accused him of minimising Hitler’s crimes.
(16) This week the rapper said his gaffe at the MTV Video Music awards in 2009 was "bigger ... than the Bush moment".
(17) Clinton, while trotting out her plan on college affordability , has been robust in her attacks on Republican candidates of late – speaking out against gaffes on women’s reproductive rights from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
(18) The editor's hope is that there will be "a story", perhaps a new policy initiative but, better still, a "gaffe".
(19) If it isn’t frontbench gaffes, it’s the perceived lack of commitment to the armed forces or armed police officers distracting from government blunders.
(20) Following a gaffe-strewn visit to Britain , where he queried the Olympic host's fitness to stage the Games, and after stirring controversy in Israel by calling Jerusalem the Israeli capital and seeming to back unilateral Israeli strikes against Iran , the Republican White House contender arrived on Monday in Poland, where he is to deliver a setpiece speech on democracy and freedom.
Gaffed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Gaff
Example Sentences:
(1) HPLC was used to investigate this reaction and included the assignment of an HPLC peak to be due to N-OAc-GAF.
(2) The microsomal fraction catalyzed the binding of N-OH-GAF to DNA at a rate that was about twice that observed for N-OH-AAF.
(3) The level of Ca2+ in liver cytosol fraction in cortisone-treated mice was higher 2 hr after GAF injection than that in the cortisone alone-treated one.
(4) Endotoxin-tolerant mice were also nonresponsive to endotoxin-stimulated GAF production.
(5) Through the use of inhibitors of protein synthesis and inhibitors of protein kinases, the activation conditions of AAF, GAF, and ISGF-3 could be distinguished.
(6) Based on these assays, this represents a purification of GAF synthase of approximately 10,076- and 8925-fold with recoveries of 16% and 19%, respectively.
(7) This facile rearrangement reaction was studied for the case of N-acetoxy-N-glycolyl-2-aminofluorene (N-OAc-GAF), which gave N-hydroxy-N-(acetoxyacetyl)-2-aminofluorene (N-OH-AcAAF) as the sole product of this rearrangement.
(8) Patients were further randomized to receive on the first 4 postoperative days a) a standard dextrose-saline regimen (DS), b) an amino acid regimen (AA), or c) a glucose-amino acid-fat regimen (GAF) via a peripheral vein.
(9) GAF elutes from Sephadex G-200 along with markers of known molecular weight in the region of 100,000 to 200,000.
(10) after an intravenous injection of phenol-water lipopolysaccharide, but they react normally (produce GAF?)
(11) A five-day, double-blind parallel clinical study was conducted to determine the effect on plaque removal of a pre-brush rinse containing 0.03 triclosan (Irgacare MP, Ciba-Geigy Corp.) and 0.125% of a copolymer of methoxyethylene and maleic acid (Gantrez, GAF Corp.), as compared to a matching placebo pre-brush rinse.
(12) Covalent binding of N-OH-GAF to DNA was minimal through the action of cytosolic N,O-acyltransferase, which confirms our earlier observation that N-OH-GAF is a potent suicide inhibitor of this enzyme.
(13) It efficiently competed for the association of the GAF with the GBP promoter but this competition was due to the presence of two low affinity sites, the ISRE and an ISRE-like sequence, suggesting that the GAS and ISRE, though both having clear preferences for specific proteins, may nevertheless share a certain degree of structural homology.
(14) The liver glycogen level in 2 hr after injection with GAF plus cortisone-treated mice was markedly lower than that in cortisone alone-treated mice.
(15) The resistance inducing activity was retained after treatment of the extract with detergent (GAF Emulphogene BC 720) to remove lipopolysaccharide and adsorption to alum gel.
(16) Scott Walker says that women don’t really ever need abortions to save their lives , and Mike Huckabee – the gift who keeps on gaffing – is out there actually arguing that 10-year-old rape victims should be forced to give birth.
(17) With calmodulin and NADPH as cofactors, purified soluble GAF synthase induced an increase of 1.05 mumol of cGMP per 10(6) RFL-6 cells per 3 min per mg of protein.
(18) The activity of TO in cortisone treated mice after injection of purified GAF was markedly lower than that in cortisone alone treated mice.
(19) Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) induces the transcription of the gene encoding a guanylate binding protein by activating a latent cytoplasmic factor, GAF (gamma-activated factor).
(20) The AAF has characteristics very similar to those of the previously described GAF.