It is, in such a circumstance, easy to get caught flat-footed by pursuing yesterday's strategy today.
Lawmakers, lobbyists, and even mainstream beltway advocacy groups fighting the bills were caught flat-footed, and retreated.
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It was caught flat-footed when young athletes stopped playing multiple sports, which had required lots of different shoes and apparel.
Ford, GM and Chrysler were caught flat-footed when US consumers began switching en masse to smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles.
Stevenson, who came through a gruelling three-setter against fifth seed Jelena Dokic on Thursday, looked tired and was often caught flat-footed.
They maintain they are confident the whole law will stand, but they don't want to be caught flat-footed if it doesn't.
There were a lot of these companies this year, caught flat-footed by the explosive growth of both the industry and the conference.
Some traders like me got caught flat-footed with very limited longs.
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Edinburgh then took advantage of a wayward Ospreys line-out close to the home line, the defence caught flat-footed as Cairns crossed for his second try.
The proponents of the plan reportedly were caught flat-footed when urban blacks and environmentalists, which should have been their natural partners, coalesced against the project.
So did the Hawks, and Smith may have been expecting a jumper on the last possession and was caught flat-footed when Anthony went right by him.
Lionel Messi capitalized on the chance and chipped the ball over the wall and into the corner of the net with Almeria goalkeeper Diego Alves caught flat-footed.
Did you just get caught flat-footed by a leak before you had a chance to iron out some details, or are we seeing deeper internal issues working themselves out in public here?
However, Mackay's team doubled their advantage when Mutch's looping cross evaded both Martin Taylor and Matthew Connolly as they challenged for the ball and nestled in the bottom corner with Kenny caught flat-footed.
Meanwhile the Israeli army, caught flat-footed both on the Golan Heights and on the border with Lebanon, will have to shore up the border, at least in the north, to make it physically impassable.
And Democrats are being caught flat-footed because they ignored the admonition of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean to create a 50-state party, and instead, created a party that cared more about Congress and the White House.
Retailers and pharmacies, meanwhile, say another aspect of the change caught them flat-footed.
And, most recently, they appear to have been caught completely flat-footed by the developments with their major investment in Alibaba Group.
Markets that fall down come back, and this the property investment market has come back from a very still place at a a rate that caught some flat-footed while buoying others aloft.
Though regulators from the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC and myriad state and city agencies are all charged with overseeing banks, all were caught completely flat-footed by the troubles that hit the finance industry like a sledgehammer in 2008.
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But a crafty line-out move caught the Irish flat-footed as Mike Phillips broke away to score, though Wales had used a different ball at the line-out.
But arcane insurance rules and mounting litigation have caught many sophisticated investors flat-footed.
These views have shaped many of the perceptions of the current millennial generation, whose conversion to the clerical orthodoxy has caught most traditional conservatives utterly flat-footed.
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