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Other manufacturers might be playing catch-up, but they haven't been caught as flat-footed as they were when Apple introduced the iPhone.

Regulators were caught "flat-footed" by a breakdown we had erroneously thought was more than adequately reserved against .

At the end of last month u disappeared, it caught me flat-footed, and the sky became gray , but I still put my trust in you.

England has seemed a nation almost at war. The unrest is a blow to the police, caught flat-footed and unable to ensure order.

He believes that the new approach limits his exposure to getting caught flat-footed by a sudden change in technology or business practices.

This helps explain why the bank's initial response was flat-footed.

But they had experienced past market downturns, while some of the bankers and analysts caught flat-footed knew only good times.

So far, many Western companies have been caught flat-footed.

I am flat-footed when someone comes right at me, angling for a fight.

I'm your friend and I'll come out flat-footed and say what I think.

Celia: Does that mean I get a partial action at the start of the date while you're still flat footed?

Once again, Lehman's management has been caught flat-footed by the severity of the credit crunch, pessimists might say.

What wear improper shoe and cause flat-footed, callus, clavus, paronychia is not little also.

Operation Barbarossa caught the Russians flat-footed: warplanes on the ground, tanks on rail cars, munitions in the open.

One low side of the hill was a sparsely connected system: flat-footed and stagnant.

And the administration appeared caught flat-footed again when demonstrations spread to Egypt.

During training, Margarito appeared flat-footed and obviously slower than the speedy Pacquiao.

Though these scenes lend black humor and boisterous vitality to the opera, they are musically flat-footed.

This technique is sometimes called playing flat footed .

He got the idea for his famous flat-footed walk from a London taxi driver who had sore feet.

a, His speed and skill makes other players look flat-footed .

Creative and incisive, he left Raggi flat-footed on the goal and confident slotted past Viviano on 75 minutes.

We don't wanna get caught flat-footed again.

But some critics in China feel that Premier Wen and other leaders were caught flat footed by the downturn.

At that time, I went to receive written verdict. Then a public hearing suddenly came and made me flat-footed.

He looks flat-footed and he can not repair the broken flat iron well.

Are you in fact, truly flat-footed?

The following changes are in effect as long as he rages: AC18(touch 10, flat-footed 15);

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