If we are going to use cliches, perhaps this was a "blunder" rather than a "gaffe".
That second effort now looks like a diplomatic blunder, given Russian and the implacable French opposition.
President Obama committed a classic communication blunder by repeating the negative charges of his opponents.
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He took advantage of this blunder to rally government forces and win the day.
The IOC board says it will reconsider this week's blunder at a meeting in May.
The most notorious symptom of the Greenspan-Bernanke blunder is the still high price of oil.
And, in truth, they would not be all that easy to blunder across accidentally.
The move was a colossal blunder and had many predicting the early death of Netflix.
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His first election broadcast, however, was seen as a blunder as his rhetoric became overly partisan.
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Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is known for making the biggest business blunder of 2011.
Alcaraz says this "blunder" wouldn't have happened if there were more people of color at large corporations.
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Parker, who was then co-president of the Nike brand, rolls his eyes when he recalls the blunder.
The double pay blunder began in 2009 when Barnes was given a promotion and a pay rise.
Russian politicians accused Georgia of trying to cover up its own military blunder in the Pankisi gorge.
The U.K. government has been reluctant to wrangle with its long-time ally over the blunder of a private company.
"A horrible, stupid blunder" is how a University of Baltimore law professor described it, and he was being charitable.
James was wide with the angled conversion and then committed a fearful blunder to present Glasgow with a try.
Smith was eighth but Simon came fourth after throwing away victory with a disastrous blunder with one lap left.
Explaining the blunder, Mr Krishna said these things happen because many of these speeches make the same initial points.
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We're trapped above all in an insular dialogue with our own culture, relearning global geography anew with every blunder.
While some in the Republican Party want us to bomb Iran, libertarians see it as another huge potential blunder.
"How could Disney allow such a blunder, " marveled Lalo Alcaraz, a Mexican-American editorial cartoonist and founder of Pocho.com.
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There is a sense in which it worked out that way, but the original assessment seems like just a blunder.
In any case, Advani was only making excuses for what is widely seen as a monumental blunder by his government.
Yet even in this relatively straightforward task of making public information properly public, technology offers plenty of scope for blunder.
Earlier Wayne Rooney capitalised on a shocking blunder to bring United level after Porto produced an early warning of their intentions.
But a low Sergei Ignashevich free-kick and Roman Pavlyuchenko's injury-time third, from a defensive blunder, ended Wales' last faint qualification hopes.
Ian Humphreys pounced for a second try, punishing Aironi's blunder in trying to usher the ball over the dead ball line.
That blunder almost bankrupted Ashanti, scared off creditors and ultimately forced Mr Jonah into the arms of his South African buyers.
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