Sentences with phrase «bring embarrassment»

If your baby boy grows up, goes to school, finds a job or applies for a job, think ahead if the name will not bring embarrassment to him.

David, that precisely was my point about MLK with direct action and turning the other cheek that Jesus talked of with bringing embarrassment to powers.

They didn't bring the focus or intensity required and they brought embarrassment on themselves.

Claim 19: «The Chairperson through her arrogant posture brought embarrassment to the Commission by refusing to grant audience to the members of the National Peace Council and the leader of the Africa Union Delegation Mr. Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa during the 2016 General Election.»

He brought embarrassment on the government when, as chief whip, he sent a note to Keith Vaz thanking him for his help with the crunch vote over 42 - day detention for terror suspects and saying he trusted he would be «appropriately rewarded».

Rising from a meeting of its national working committee on Thursday in Abuja, the party urged the national assembly to «thoroughly investigate the shameful act, including the distortion and banding of figures to accommodate their personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions is meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body».

Not exact matches

In other words, there's much less embarrassment about asking to be paid for services provided, and there's more openness to those who can bring something new to the table.

In the first place, being in touch with the body will bring us reports of sensuous pleasure, warmth, good feelings — not to be denied or suppressed; not to be apologized for; not a source of religious embarrassment.

There's enough room in this land, in our embarrassment of riches, for us to imagine you growing up and opening up books and bringing creative ideas and forging a fresh way and our land needed the hope of you, Alyan.

I bring up these historical embarrassments, not to shame the Church or criticize the many godly people who supported them, but to pose a question: What's next?

I often write to figure out what I think, and I think I live a pretty seamless life between online and real - life, but some part of me still wants to die of embarrassment when someone in my real life actually brings up my blog or my book.

Egg boiling trick I learned in Germany and Switzerland: To avoid embarrassment and be absolutely exact, bring the water to a boil BEFORE you put the eggs in.

The Red's failed to bring in a centre - back as Mamadou Sakho left the club for Crystal Palace and the pursuit of Virgil Van Dijk tailed off into nothing more than an embarrassment for all parties.

I watched Liverpool tonight and they were devastating that's what a young ambitious coach can bring that performance should waken our club up we're nothing short of atrocious in Europe and that's down to the manager it really is an embarrassment that we have a pensioner managing this team!

he is an embarrassment to the club and an albatross round its neck... will watch and hope that ozil sanchez lacazette and wilshere can bring something that makes it worthwhile spending a couple of hours in their company on a thursday night but wenger has drained real enthusiasm for the game and club

the question is does wenger stick with the same kinda team because after that embarrassment the team confidence must be hurt because they got outplayed which is worser than just losing so its a oppurtunity for them to regain some pride back vs villa or does wenger change the team about and bring in whole sale changes i do nt really know only wenger does he gets paid enough for it

She took it upon herself to avoid embarrassment with her biker date (who may be friends with the supermarket goon), and brought in a stunning Dick Yorkesque model of perfect husbandry.

I'm hoping that by keeping myself educated on the latest «trends» (e.g. fuck friends), I might be able to bring up these topics with my daughter without judgement or embarrassment.

It has helped to be able to share stories — tell them and hear them — of various incidents involving breastfeeding an older child and to talk about the feelings of joy, embarrassment, resentment, etc. that such incidents bring up.»

The conditional provision states that matters that may bring the office of the President into public ridicule and even matters that subject the whole country to embarrassment are grounds for impeachment.

To make matters worse the company at the heart of the privatisation plans G4S, was responsible for the security shambles at the Olympics which brought international embarrassment to the UK in the run - up to the London Games.

In the probability of police charges being brought, Sewel resigned from the Lords apologising for the «pain and embarrassment» he had caused.

I write to express my sincere apology to the Ghana Football Association and the entire nation for any embarrassment that my action in Brazil brought to the Black Stars Team, the Ghana Football Association and my beloved country Ghana.

The midfielder in a letter to the Ghana Football Association apologised to Ghanaians for «any embarrassment that my action in Brazil brought to the Black Stars Team, the Ghana Football Association and my beloved country Ghana»

The actions of Farage, Goldsmith and Wood just bring us further embarrassment at a time when the UK needs allies more than ever.

The business activities of Menzgold, The Herald learnt has since 2014, been done in a legally acceptable manner, thus preventing fraud and the usual embarrassment brought upon Ghana by scammers posing as gold dealers and duping foreign nationals by selling them stones and iron bars painted in gold.

The fact that for fourteen years the New York State Senate has failed to bring GENDA to the floor for a vote is an embarrassment to all New Yorkers who value equality.»

Repeats on Harry Hill's TV Burp have certainly succeeded in bringing terminal embarrassment to my teenage children.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's drive to win female support keeps bringing him fresh embarrassments — two this week alone.

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.

In his first address to the UN General Assembly, President Trump brought his confrontational style of leadership to the world's most prominent stage, vowing to «totally destroy North Korea» if it threatened the U.S., and denouncing the nuclear agreement with Iran as «an embarrassment» that he may abandon.

He made the comment in his response to former President Mahama's accusation that he (Bawumia) brought President Akufo - Addo embarrassment by awarding a $ 2.5 million contract to local IT firm Vokacom to develop a «419» application called GhanaPostGPS to be used for the national digital addressing system, when that same app was available on Google for free.

unprecedented confusion has rocked Ghana's delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament, bringing about what some members are calling «international embarrassment to the country.»

At Labour's conference he faced more embarrassment as he was pictured holding a plea to bring back the very same job.

No employee will represent themselves in any public social media forum as an employee of the Buffalo Police Department with information, opinion or posture that would bring unfavorable criticism or embarrassment upon the department.

«The comments made by Legislator LaPierre demonstrate intolerance and have brought shame and embarrassment to the County Legislators and the citizens of St. Lawrence County,» Finance Committee Chair Joe Timmerman wrote in the censure order, which will be finally voted on in early February.

Those and other embarrassments brought the field into disrepute in the West.

«Often that's because of shame, guilt that somehow they brought this on themselves, embarrassment, or stress.

Being thin and underweight is unhealthy and doesn't make you feel good even if your friends think that you are lucky to have a thin or slim figure, and along with it, it brings in little confidence, embarrassment, missed opportunities and more.

It didn't quite bring me to tears, but it certainly caused me a great deal of heartache and embarrassment.

The Light Between Oceans is definitely a melodramatic weeper, but one saved from outright embarrassment by the sheer force of the talent assembled to bring it to the screen.

She is short on free time to spend with him and practical joke - loving Winfried causes her much embarrassment when she brings him along to a work conference.

The author maintains much of the burning embarrassment and soul - sick sadness that brings such weight to his slender source work.

Young Austin Abrams meanwhile plays terrifically opposite Stiller, bringing a mumbly naturalism to the table while also cementing the infuriated embarrassment that just about every kid will routinely feel about their parents» well - meaning but cringe - worthy behaviour from time to time.

Most states have set their proficiency bars at much lower levels, perhaps because it causes less embarrassment when more students can make it across the proficiency bar, or because it was the easiest way for states to comply with the NCLB requirement to bring all students up to full proficiency.

In Embarrassment: And the Emotional Underlife of Learning, Thomas Newkirk discusses how having even one known strength can infuse us with the confidence to get through life's toughest lessons, and it turns out that new teachers regularly do bring certain strengths and have some advantages over more veteran teachers that help them to navigate the tumultuous seas of those first years.

They should stop attempts to collect debts without proper information and documentation about the debt, stop debt collectors from bringing robo - signed cases in court, crack down on widespread use of threats, harassment and embarrassment in debt collection, and protect consumers from having their credit records unfairly affected by medical debt, among other actions.

There are somethings worse than bringing the wrong travel tool to lug your belongings... there's shame, embarrassment, guilt.

The embarrassment of Sir Nicholas and the Tate Modern was brought about by Mr Thomson, who obtained the minutes of Tate trustees meetings under the Freedom of Information Act.

Affidavits filed in the British Columbia Supreme Court libel litigation brought by climate scientist Michael Mann against climate science denier Timothy Ball reveal that Ball's collaborator and self - styled «legal advisor» has misrepresented his credentials and endured some significant legal embarrassments of his own.