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It is the people themselves, subject to the hopeful, fumbling, imperfect workings of democracy, who are fully responsible for their own defence.

Its members are at sixes and sevens and their fumbling attempts to paper over the cracks deceive no one.

I once spent five minutes fumbling about in the dark trying to release myself from the seat belt of my daughter's car.

We all subscribe to those objectives in our own pragmatic, rather tentative and perhaps hesitant and fumbling rule-of-thumb manner.

The attempts by the local education authority to remove surplus places have been met by prevarication, fumbling inefficiency, and totally unwarranted and costly delay.

Anything that will assist the war effort will command my immediate support, and there will be no hesitation or fumbling.

I must admit that we are fumbling in the dark.

We have endured now for nearly seven years a policy of fumbling fingers and faltering feet.

They were able to slip away from that because of a little fumbling about the report.

We had a shambling, fumbling, largely irrelevant and, at one point, degrading speech.

One stands for a long time at the window and watches the chap fumbling for change.

The others end up whistling in the wind, fumbling in the dark, or whatever metaphor one wants to use.

There has been only a fumbling towards any kind of energy policy.

They feel that there has been blundering and fumbling in the handling of this incident.

It is a generation impatient of the mumblings and bumblings and fumblings of what has too often passed for statesmanship.

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