Sentences with phrase «embarrassing failure»

Which is why they tried to turn the genuinely unfortunate and embarrassing failure of a high - profile cleantech project like Solyndra into a scandal that represented the entire industry.

From a recent essay about this gigantic and embarrassing failure by government scientists, we learn:

If Brodsky wants to play the guilt - by - association card, then he should admit that he supports having a state budget that's 40 days late, and the highest taxes in the country, and three men in a room, and Pedro Espada as majority leader, and killing congestion pricing, and killing charter schools, and every other embarrassing failure to come out of the legislature.

The prime minister wouldn't have got where he is to do without having a fairly intelligent head on his shoulders, but even David Cameron is vulnerable to the occasional embarrassing failure.

It seems as though some people are determined to paint Ghostbusters as this huge, embarrassing failure no matter what anyone says.

But on a grander note, the technology could erase a string of Microsoft's embarrassing failures with mobile phones, music players, tablets and even Windows from consumers» minds and provide a redemptive beat for the company.

Aviation security (and most other forms of security) is notoriously reactive, changing mostly in response to devastating or embarrassing failures.

If they'd taken the stories of his perfectionist ways to heart, Apple might have avoided the embarrassing failure of its new map app.

«The joint release shows that carbon pollution will actually rise until 2030 under Christy Clark's plan, and that by 2050 carbon pollution will still be 41 megatonnes (Mt) higher than British Columbia's legislated 2050 target of 12.6 Mt.. This is an embarrassing failure by Christy Clark's government.

The state Legislature won't let Cuomo change the name of his much - maligned Start - Up NY economic - development program, which critics have lambasted as an embarrassing failure.

Vice President Mike Pence visited the Korean demilitarized zone a day after the embarrassing failure of a North Korean missile test which the US and South Korea said exploded on launch.

The state Legislature won't let Gov. Cuomo change the name of his much - maligned Start - Up NY economic - development program, which critics have lambasted as an embarrassing failure.

Unless Lib Dem, and indeed Labour, parliamentarians can show House of Lords reform to be the matter of democratic importance to the country that it is, Lords reform could end up in the same heap of embarrassing failures as AV.

Unless Lib Dems can show House of Lords reform to be a matter of democratic importance, it could end up in the same heap of embarrassing failures as AV, worries Charlotte Henry

We are unable to come to terms with how such huge amounts could be spent on the team that floated this bond especially given the embarrassing failure that they encountered.

Pluto Nash is so hard to watch the title itself will become Hollywood shorthand for any monumental, embarrassing failure - right up there with Heaven's Gate and Hudson Hawk.

Its story is familiar (and, in fact, quite close to that of the equally good «The Skeleton Twins» last year): A 30 - something man named Jake (Nick Kroll), after an embarrassing failure in his professional life, returns to his hometown to live — in his childhood home, no less — with his semi-estranged sister Justine (Rose Byrne) and her family.

A review of «Adult Beginners,» starring Nick Kroll as a 30 - something man named Jake who returns to his childhood home after an embarrassing failure in his professional life.

More importantly, their demo, run by Mac development tech head Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), is on the verge of becoming an embarrassing failure.

Although there were some embarrassing failures in those early days of the academy movement, these were outweighed by the startling successes of the majority.

When Smith took over Arlington schools, I thought he was headed for an embarrassing failure.

So, the safe discussion to have is about gains... gains from pathetically, embarrassingly failing to less - pathetic, less - embarrassing failure, kind of like half - drowning but trying to pass it off as progress toward competitive - swim quality:

Taking together the coming bulge in pupil numbers, the vast exodus of experienced teachers and the embarrassing failure of Teach First to retain the staff it has trained, a perfect storm is about to engulf our schools, while Nick Gibb sticks his fingers in his ears and sings «La, la, la, la,» very loudly.

The Kent decision has been pending since last year but was delayed in the runup to the election in May, and further delayed by Downing Street's insistence that legal advice had to be robust enough to avoid any embarrassing failure in the courts.

Jaguar tried this once before, of course, with the pitiful Mondeo - based X-Type, an expensive lesson that half - measures against these rivals are doomed to end in embarrassing failure.

Following the embarrassing failure of the 32X, Sega of America was losing some of the autonomy that allowed it to thrive in Western markets.

It reached rock bottom in 2014, when its ill - starred pursuit of the Tchenguiz brothers resulted in an embarrassing failure followed by the need to pay # 3m in compensation (plus a further # 3m in costs) to make it go away.

The Amazon Fire phone was an embarrassing failure.

After the embarrassing failure of his disastrous health care repeal bill, Paul Ryan is back and about to hold a vote on version 2.0.