"One wrong turn and my wheel would get stuck, and it would be over, " he said.
The pleasure of Chinatown is in taking a wrong turn and getting lost, ending up somewhere strange and unexpected.
Some even argue that focusing on HDL exclusively may have been a scientific wrong turn.
She said they had argued after her husband had taken a wrong turn.
The group took the wrong turn at the start of the trek in Scotland and scaled the wrong mountain, though.
And Leanid Karneyenka of Belarus took a wrong turn in the final few metres of his semi-final, while in the lead.
He said he was looking for a toilet when he took a wrong turn and found himself in the changing room.
Cosy in my room, plunked on the warm bed, I called my husband and related the tale of my wrong turn and daring escape.
The father's wrong turn got his family lost in the Florida Everglades, but his outdoor skills helped steer rescuers to their location.
If someone makes a wrong turn, Project Glass would alert the wayward player of this mistake with a visual or audio cue.
The five passengers had set out that day for a tour in the Everglades in a borrowed airboat, but a wrong turn placed them in an unplanned adventure.
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that the company had taken a wrong turn by releasing its new Maps app before it was ready for prime time.
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For those who try to physically breach a client's offices, a wrong turn can lead to an encounter with security, so most carry a "get out of jail free" letter from the client.
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It will raise doubts about the system's ability to capitalise on its successes when it wants to innovate rather than just catch up, and to correct itself if it takes a wrong turn.
The group, which included Mr Wilson's brother, Carl Wright, took the wrong turn at the start of the trek in Scotland and climbed Stob Ban, a much steeper peak than the higher Ben Nevis.
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Mr. Obama's tax reform proposal takes a wrong turn in each area and appears motivated by a poor understanding of the impact of capital taxation on business behavior and the welfare of middle-class Americans.
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But thanks to the wrong turn ("so much for this nice little shortcut") that is as essential to horror movies as yeast is to bread, the gang decides to camp out for the night and resume the journey in the morning.
We had two iPhones and two Android phones between us, allowing me to test Google Maps on both the iPhone and Android and Apple's own mapping app for the iPhone. (There's no Apple app on Android.) These apps all have turn-by-turn voice navigation and will nag you with new directions if you make a wrong turn or try to go off-course.
Yet democracies would be wrong to turn their back on nuclear power.
Life is messy: what looks right may be wrong, and what looks wrong may turn out to be, in the fullness of time, right.
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But the Libyan government said in its appeal filing Tuesday that legally, the ICC was wrong to turn down its request for a postponement to surrender Gadhafi.
No matter how right the causes Swartz embodied, no matter how heartless the institutions he fought, it is wrong to turn the technogeek myth-making factory on a suicide.
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To watch a missile fired in the wrong direction and turn and hit its target, it's a frightening thing.
Rees figures particle accelerators may someday smash the wrong atom and turn the planet into a hyperdense sphere 100 meters across.
Mr. BAKER: This operator, she has to turn the sock wrong side out, put it on the sewing machine, comes through, turns it back.
This article is adapted from Selling Out a Superpower: Where the U.S. Economy Went Wrong and How We Can Turn It Around, with the permission of Prometheus Books.
This article is adapted, in part, from Selling Out a Superpower: Where the U.S. Economy Went Wrong and How We Can Turn It Around, with the permission of Prometheus Books.
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