And, in truth, they would not be all that easy to blunder across accidentally.
That changed as Mr Blair's departure drew near and the Tories began to blunder: in June Labour overtook the Tories (see chart).
Uninformed investors tend to blunder their way into stacks of losses.
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An even sadder case was that of Thomas Chambers, clearly a legitimate pastor, who managed to blunder into about everything a phony church does, including corporation sole.
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Planes can end up at wrong spots on the tarmac, sometimes even causing confused pilots at the controls to blunder into the path of speeding aircraft in poor visibility.
When people wonder why Israel continues to blunder from defeat to retreat and can't figure out a way to assert its interests militarily or politically, they need to look no further than Yediot's ten-year anniversary celebration of the withdrawal from Lebanon.
As for what comes next, Dimon said the firm is addressing the issues that led to the blunder, like requirements and more specific limits that should have applied to the portfolio but were either skirted or ignored.
Not only is Microsoft losing out on cash thanks to this blunder, but it also puts PC owners at risk from unscrupulous PCC sellers who might try to palm off an illegal copy of Windows onto users.
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Add to this blunder the very real questions that have been raised (by Forbes staffer Andy Greenberg in these pages) about flaws in the Javascript-based encryption scheme that MEGA is using.
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Knight Capital, the Jersey City-based trading firm that nearly collapsed over the summer due to a trading blunder, told clients it was having power issues and instructed them to route order flow away from Knight, according to Reuters.
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The trader himself, Nick Leeson, was a soft-hearted sap who started on the road to perdition to cover up a blunder by a junior colleague, and appeared to think he was dealing in cappuccino options.
He took advantage of this blunder to rally government forces and win the day.
James was wide with the angled conversion and then committed a fearful blunder to present Glasgow with a try.
Earlier Wayne Rooney capitalised on a shocking blunder to bring United level after Porto produced an early warning of their intentions.
But by 2007, he had come to believe it was a "blunder" and joined Democrats who tried to force the Bush administration to withdraw American troops.
As Neflix management scrambled to recover from the blunder, other services, like Amazon and Hulu, gained strength, putting even more pressure on Netflix.
However appealing the creation of a carbon cash cow may seem, GOP endorsement of this agenda would be a blunder comparable to President George H.
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And when they miss a particularly large scam Bank of Credit and Commerce International, say their blunder comes to light only when it is too late for investors.
Exuberance--and inexperience--led him to his first big blunder.
Security Council not to make another big blunder like the one in the past when it earned the inveterate grudge of the Korean nation by acting as a war servant for the U.S. in 1950.
Which is why his response to the latest White House blunder says so much about Bill Clinton's presidency now.
Ian Humphreys pounced for a second try, punishing Aironi's blunder in trying to usher the ball over the dead ball line.
To Keynesian critics the switch to austerity is a colossal blunder.
After Grant was convicted, Commander Simon Foy apologised for a paperwork blunder which led to the DNA of another suspect scuppering attempts to catch the attacker.
On the surface, the blunder was failing to square the retail deal with a coalition ally, the Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, a notoriously unreliable ally.
Two inquiries have been launched into the cause of a massive blunder that led to five years of research into the possibility of BSE in sheep being scrapped.
Benito Carbone could have equalised with 10 minutes to go when a similar blunder by De Goey left the Blues' goal totally exposed, but he scuffed the shot and it was cleared off the line by Leboeuf.
The killing of Mr Hariri exactly a year ago was a massive blunder, leading to a revolution on the streets of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, that ended up with the complete withdrawal, last summer, of regular Syrian forces.
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