Sentences with phrase «caused much embarrassment»

A mathematician I know who teaches at a small college told me that a graduate of his education school caused much embarrassment when, during the interview for a job in an elementary school, the job seeker was unable to add two fractions when asked to do so.

The defective morals of some of its personages have caused much embarrassment.

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.

Furthermore, a reinstatement or re-engagement tribunal order may cause much embarrassment for the employers, and as well as leave them with an employee they don't want to have.

Not exact matches

No one is suggesting getting sloshed is good for much of anything other than causing embarrassment and a headache, nor should your office drinking reach Don Draper levels of consistency.

Embarrassing is an overused word and much favoured by the knee - jerkers who find that so much about the club causes them embarrassment; whether it is young Jack's transfer gossip, David Gold's tweeting or that Sullivan Senior made his money from adult entertainment.

Many organisations believe, quite correctly, that their workforce could not do the tests properly, or that they would take up too much time or would cause embarrassment.

Mine got so much wear that even though they were of high quality -LCB- I couldn't bear to skimp on a garment that would cause me serious embarrassment if it malfunctioned -RCB- the elastics did eventually give out.

The Academy's petty disqualification of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's score for «The Dark Knight» from Oscar contention has already caused much gnashing of teeth on these pages, so here's something to compound the embarrassment.

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.

For example, recall the leak of Nixon Peabody's theme song that caused the firm widespread public embarrassment — not so much because of the song's cheesy lyrics, but rather, the firm's heavy - handed reaction when the video was posted on Above the Law.

At its worst, clients are going to be shoe - horned into legal versions of the sort of consolidated packages that are currently causing the banks so much embarrassment.