Except for the occasional stumble, so, too, was everyone else.

Cording was showing the strain of unaccustomed hiking, but he showed it silently, in the slight weave to his walk and the occasional stumble.

The rowdy group was heading slowly in her direction, hampered by occasional stumbles and lurches.

Democratic partisans equate Bush's occasional verbal stumbles with Gore's too-careful verbal legalisms, like "community outreach" to conceal illegal fund-raising, and his Clintonesque obfuscations like "no controlling legal authority."

Just as the Yankees have not panicked after occasional stumbles last year and this, the Orioles probably won't, either.

He was wet through and through, and he had already begun to feel the stallion's tiredness in his occasional stumble and slide in the mire.

Despite the occasional stumble, Ms. Wojcicki said Google's AdSense program had performed well, both technically and financially.

The occasional stumble aside, Mr. Salonen has shown that an updated approach to programming can work artistically and commercially.

But that has not stopped Mr. Salazar or the Colorado media from pointing out Mr. Coors' occasional stumbles in the linguistic thicket.

That fact was made evident by his occasional stumbles as well as the sudden loss of sight in his right eye.