Sentences with phrase «considerable embarrassment»

I find it close to impossible to adapt what I have prepared while on my feet and this has led to considerable embarrassment in court and disappointing results.

This would have saved the Government considerable embarrassment.

The exposure of these claims to be untrue brought considerable embarrassment to Mr. Akuffo Addo and we were of the view that he would draw useful lessons from these and refrain from such reprehensible conduct.

My understanding is that this is underway now, to an extent — Beijing's air is of course notorious, and there was considerable embarrassment around that during the Olympics as a result.

I note that, in the past, provincial law societies have made the adoption (or rejection) of certain values a requirement to practice (e.g., adoption of Christian faith, rejection of Bolshevism)-- those past practices are now regarded with considerable embarrassment.

It's a name that has caused considerable embarrassment to Peter Higgs, the physicist (and atheist) who postulated its existence — and by any reckoning the derogatory label might have been more appropriate, given the billions of dollars that have been spent chasing the elusive Higgs particle.

This demonstration that abortion is almost always a birth control technique rather than a response to a serious problem with the mother's or the fetus» health must have been a considerable embarrassment to the pro-abortion forces.

By their conduct the Respondents have exposed our client to public ridicule, and caused her considerable embarrassment.

Germany's strict recycling laws have become a «considerable embarrassment» because they are creating mountains of material for which there is no market, says the Lords Select Committee on the European Communities this week in a report on Packaging and Packaging Waste.

In the long run, it would save them considerable embarrassment.