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After Whitman spoke at the banquet, Stutzman, again clearly big-footing the everyday press operation, beckoned reporters to another unscheduled press availability on stage.
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THE PRESIDENT: Well, I've got to be careful about not looking like I'm big-footing Congress.
Obama's Interview With Progressive Bloggers (FULL TRANSCRIPT) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He and many of his “Born-or-Bred-in - the-Beltway” types have a bit of an aversion to those pushy, honking Noo-Yawkahs big-footing around the ol 'cherry blossoms down there.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Instead, the perception in both races is of party bosses pulling levers, big-footing with preferred candidates.
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CBS, of course, was less than thrilled with this development and downright anxious that I might tell all about the "big-footing" situation in Argentina.
Blood Sugar 2010
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After Whitman spoke at the banquet, Stutzman, again clearly big-footing the everyday press operation, beckoned reporters to another unscheduled press availability on stage.
William Bradley: The Mitt & Meg Show: "Taking Care of Business" 2010
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When he took his new job, he signed up a few high-profile former clients for Disney, a practice he later backed away from because it gave the appearance of big-footing the movie division.
Now, Mickey Mao 2008
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A day later, in one of the more unseemly displays of piling on that I can recall, Maureen Dowd used her op-ed column to complain that Miller was prone to big-footing her colleagues and had a reputation for using what might generously be described as unconventional journalistic techniques to nail her stories.
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But can the short video do much to change the popular perception of Microsoft as a company with a history of big-footing other players in the industry?
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Given that the vast majority of reasons for spurning Senator Clinton are personal - the negative nature of the primary, the awkwardness of having Bill big-footing all over the White House, the country and the world - moving beyond her is essentially a validation of McCain's framing of Obama as not possessing the true qualities of leadership.
Adam Hanft: The Necessary Audacity of Hillary Clinton as Vice President 2008
b_a_start commented on the word big-footing
big-footing -- used in this CNN article. http://tinyurl.com/kuxg35 "Many in the establishment view him as someone who does not cower to big-footing by the West."
June 18, 2009