Pitfall
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17 examples of Pitfall in a sentence
But I think the biggest conceptual
pitfall
that cybertopians made is when it comes to digital natives, people who have grown up online.
Another
pitfall
for the movie version of a TV series is the inevitable comparisons that are made.
Every
pitfall
and trap you would want to know is displayed here in its sheer and gratuitous ugliness.
The potential
pitfall
is that any British tariff increase above the EU level would expose the UK to claims for compensation from third countries in the WTO.
The EU’s response to Brexit could well prove to be another
pitfall.
To avoid this pitfall, policymakers should consider the roots of the eurozone’s low growth potential, which is not a result of insufficient solidarity, but of individual member states abnegating their national responsibilities.
A
pitfall
to be avoided here comes in sweetening the deal by converting a government monopoly into a private monopoly - which may be an improvement but falls far short of the desirable outcome.
The US Postal Service illustrates that
pitfall
as well as the fallacy that mimicking the form of private enterprise can achieve the substance.
The final
pitfall
is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.
And with each breach, the cycle accelerates: people either dismiss the threat – it probably won’t happen to them – or accept it as an unavoidable
pitfall
of modern life.
But the Japanese may already have fallen victim to an unforeseen
pitfall.
Another potential
pitfall
of agricultural development is environmental damage, including land degradation, soil nutrient mining, excessive water use, and water pollution.
This is the fundamental
pitfall
of a strategy based on driving a wedge between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s “moderates” and Hamas’s “extremists.”
But this can hardly be regarded as a
pitfall
of democracy.
GRATIUSFor a newcomer, who, out of pride, never asked any questions, Julien managed to avoid any serious
pitfall.
"Know, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "that the life of knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for knights-errant to become kings and emperors, as experience has shown in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we suffer.
At length I resolved to try a pitfall; so I dug several large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over those pits I placed hurdles of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley and dry rice without setting the trap; and I could easily perceive that the goats had gone in and eaten up the corn, for I could see the marks of their feet.
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