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- v. alternative form of wrongfoot.
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“Levy was principally making a very effective appeal to recognize the humanity of both sides - and in this case, the humanity that was not being recognized was that of the Jews and Israelis, so that was the point he was clearly driving at and he appeared to effectively wrong-foot a particularly unsympathetic and hard-line question.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Clemons: Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Debate
“When it was decided that 50% of parties' candidates should be women, many saw it as trying to wrong-foot An-Nahda.”
The Guardian: The women MPs tipped to play leading roles in Tunisia's new government
“Of course, U.K. house prices have had a tendency to wrong-foot the bearish.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Housing Sits on Aspic, Not Firmer Foundations
“Assou-Ekotto put up a high diagonal – Leighton Baines should have thumped it clear but his air shot allowed Aaron Lennon, who had been quiet thus far, to cut inside the left-back and when the shot rolled off his boot it passed under Sylvain Distin to wrong-foot Howard.”
The Guardian: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Everton | Premier League match report
“The more I see this announcement about being willing to recount ballots, the more I think it is just a political ruse to try and wrong-foot the opposition.”
The Huffington Post: Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16)
“A Labour Party that is a little more about taxing unearned wealth and a little less about taxing fairly earned, albeit high, incomes, would not only be truer to its roots but could wrong-foot the Tories in 2011-12 more effectively than the initial introduction of the tax ever did.”
“Rather the package has been skilfully designed to bind the coalition together and, by shifting resources from the welfare budget to health and education, to wrong-foot Labour.”
“And wild economic swings of fortune will wrong-foot anyone, over time.”
“Here she walloped her ground strokes and occasionally exploited the angles shrewdly enough to wrong-foot Williams.”
The Guardian: Serena Williams in tears after making winning return to Wimbledon
“Indeed, Blair's reappearance might help to wrong-foot the Conservatives, now struggling to maintain their lead in the polls.”
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john “As Mann played defense and Richardson cradled the ball with her head up, the women used their feet to grab position and cut.
The term, they explained, was to “wrong-foot” your opponent.”
The New York Times, A Case Against Helmets in Lacrosse, by Alan Schwarz, February 16, 2011 Feb 17, 2011
rolig "But the Bonn Republic was even more noteworthy for its success in wrong-footing the many observers in both camps socialists and Christian conservatives who had anticipated the worst. Under Konrad Adenauer's direction West Germany had navigated safely between the Scylla of neo-Nazism and the Charybdis of philo-Soviet neutralism, and was anchored securely in the Western alliance, despite the misgivings of critics at home and abroad."
– Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (New York: Penguin Press, 2005), 265. Jun 9, 2008