Sentences with phrase «becoming embarrassment»

The Global Warming label was becoming an embarrassment several years into the pause.

«It's becoming an embarrassment.

The group is becoming an embarrassment and a disgrace to the Niger Delta.»

The absence of any transport policy is becoming an embarrassment.

Once Church teaching becomes just one opinion among many in the public square, as well as becoming an embarrassment to prominent Christian leaders, then God is being gagged.

That is pathetically banana republic statistical reporting and you are becoming an embarrassment to this country!!

But at this point, economic data have consistently contradicted Achuthan's «rolling over» assertion and claim that we're now in a recession, a position that is rapidly becoming an embarrassment.

The question that remains unanswered is at which point Trump policies become an embarrassment for those who have lined up behind Trump's promise to cut taxes and regulation, or indeed the Wall Streeters who have joined the administration.

Marketing history is filled with examples that started out popular and loved, then became embarrassments.

Abu Dhabi's relationship with 1MDB has become an embarrassment, and Malaysia's sliding currency complicates the bailout.

«Trump is drawing a decisive red line for himself, we all think back to Obama's red line in Syria, which ultimately became an embarrassment for him,» Peter Jennings, Australia's former deputy secretary in defense, told CNBC.

The belly has become an embarrassment, something shockingly wrong.

She became an embarrassment to the first missionaries and a reproach to the kinds of pharisees who later came to control the church, to men who preferred not to remember Jesus» preference for sinful people.

Even though while we become more egalitarian those who disagree become more extreme, I have to trust that at some point this polarization will become an embarrassment to all of us.

But Birek's innocence and naivete become an embarrassment: London's literati decide that he is not much of a writer after all.

On the other hand, the majority of Jews refused to accept the Christian kerygma, and in time their persistent refusal became an embarrassment to the church and an apparent refutation of the Christian claim that Jesus was the Messiah.

He has almost become an embarrassment for Van Gaal; a problem the meticulous manager has not been able to solve.»

It's a tournament that Arsenal have become an embarrassment in!

We have become an embarrassment to the society.

There are several reasons why Wilshere should be at the forefront of Wenger's plans; the 25 - year - old has experience at the highest levels of football both domestically and internationally, which will insure Arsenal's Europa League venture will not become an embarrassment despite being a lesser priority.

However, they quickly became an embarrassment for the company as they provided a route for Nestlé to apologise to policy makers who had been misrepresented as endorsing the company's practices.

Plans for an annual Big Society were also put on hold in 2014, but minister Nick Hurd denied the term had become an embarrassment and insisted: «Arguably, every day is a big society day.»

«Empire Zones became an embarrassment to successive governors and Empire State Development because of the difficulties in policing the abuses of the overly complex program, and its lack of success in inducing job creation,» Bacheller wrote.

You have become an embarrassment and a disappointment.

He said the PANDEF led by the foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, though had set the pace and part of the action the government was working on, the group had become an embarrassment and a grace to the people of the region.

If programmes alone could solve our problems, SADA would have brought prosperity to the three northern regions of our country by now; instead of which SADA has become an embarrassment and a gaping sore on our national psyche.

The widespread misuse of p - values — often creating the illusion of credible research — has become an embarrassment to several academic fields, including psychology and biomedicine, especially since Ioannidis began publishing critiques of the way modern research is conducted.

The shameless playboy's almost 30, and his womanizing ways have become an embarrassment to his family and friends.

But the teachers from the original school who were left over were still entitled to their salaries because they had not done anything wrong, and as the number of such teachers eventually grew to more than 1,000, they became an embarrassment for both the city and the teachers» union.

There are so many breathtaking environmental moments it almost becomes an embarrassment of riches.

Material for a sculpture proposed as an alternative to a monument that has become an embarrassment to its people,

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It took a few months to attract attention, but it became an embarrassment.

Appropriating their prize was Mann's way of maintaining his prestige even as his slapdash science became an embarrassment (as we'll come to below).

Coal deposits, which have cost millions of dollars to explore and evaluate, have become embarrassments rather than assets.

Funny how the heat going into the ocean depths argument only took off when the surface temperature hiatus became an embarrassment.

No one is going to invite you along to an event whereby your behavior becomes an embarrassment to the one who invited you.

Not exact matches

Early Sunday on Twitter, Trump called North Korea «a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China.»

Although there are many victims of cyber attacks, Sony's name may become synonymous with corporate losses and embarrassment from careless emails and protection of data as was the case for Target.

Add to this truth the lightning fast and obviously very public nature of social media and mistakes become nearly inevitable — and potentially disastrous, as many companies have already found out to their great embarrassment.

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For this to take place, many entrenched and centralized institutions, which have become the single points of failure in the global economy accruing an embarrassment of power and riches, will need to be transformed.

He describes the pain and embarrassment he experienced in his struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality; his determination, once his desires became undeniable, to remain celibate in accordance with his faith; the explosive mix of joy and confusion he experienced when he had his first homosexual experience at age twenty - three.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.

However, since none of these beings can be proven to exist then I think that faith is irrelevant, and quite frankly has become an enormous embarrassment, when it comes to deciding who should be the leaders of our nation.

The unqualified, complete humanity of Jesus early became a source of embarrassment to the church.

With Kathryn Robinson's lengthy article on the case, «Sins of the Poet,» first published in Seattle Weekly and reprinted in revised form in Lingua Franca, the story became widely known in academic circles — an embarrassment to the university, but an ironic boost for Cairns's name recognition.

As a Protestant, I feel forced to acknowledge, with some embarrassment, that the truth of Gregory's claim that the divisiveness of the Reformation became unmistakably evident following the gradual disestablishment of Protestantism.

[6] In particular from the later nineteenth century (if not earlier) his teaching on sacramental signification commonly became a source of embarrassment or a subject for ridicule.