Word: faltering
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...appear less so. Before he ascended to power, when his predecessor and father Kim Il Sung died in 1994, he was regarded outside North Korea as something of a joke--a pampered playboy who, with his Mao-era leisure suits, puffed-up coiffure and shoe lifts, would likely falter in his father's footsteps. Though he's maintained his singular sense of style, Kim has lessened his reputation for kookiness. The first time the outside world got a good look at him, in June 2000 when he summited with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, he cracked jokes, demonstrated proper...
...appeared to be more of the same in the third set, as Hall laid claim to an initial 7-0 lead. She started to falter, however, and proceded to lose four consecutive points...
Agatha’s show a woman on the move—professionally and personally successful. It seems, though, that sometime in the intervening years, her mental health began to falter...
...There are a lot of crews that are setting their sights on us,” Pommen said. “With the league as competitive as it is, you’ve got to be able to put together a great race. If you falter, somebody else is going to catch...
...also across the globe—are being captured by U.S. forces, it is imperative that we have set standards by which we can try and judge them. Ideally, international courts can provide the oversight and legitimacy that state-based judicial action cannot. For the international legal system to falter now, the chasm between the U.S. and the rest of the world would grow to even larger proportions...