Sentences with phrase «avoid national embarrassment»

«The party could avoid the national embarrassment of a Paladino candidacy and mount a substantive challenge to the Democratic nominee, Andrew Cuomo.

When the city of Lillehammer could only scrounge up $ 289 million to foot the bill, the oil - rich Norwegian national government ended up bailing out the city with the rest of the $ 1 billion in order to avoid national embarrassment.