Sentences with phrase «embarrassing failure of»

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.

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.

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.

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

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«I was scared and embarrassed — I was on the brink of growing the business to failure,» Carson recalls.

Many entrepreneurs lose money because they don't invoice properly, can't keep track of who owes what, and sometimes are so embarrassed over their own failure to invoice that they just let it go.

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

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.

«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.

As for candidates, any of them who lack the skill to avoid embarrassing themselves when journalists ask them gotcha questions about «what the Pope said» deserve their inevitable failure, and would have failed anyway.

Many of us have become embarrassed about that ancient script because of our awareness of the ideological failures that are present in it, We are too ready to hand it over to the waiting arms of the dominant ideology; we have given up on the hard work of hearing and speaking the alternative message in what Karl Barth termed «the strange new world within the Bible.»

This was about the 20th example of embarrassing, program humiliating failure in the last 15 years.

How ridiculously small and embarrassed YOU must feel now after THAT post of yours earlier.The important issue you fail to understand is that even the fans who wish Wenger to leave in a dignified manner accept that he must go.Very few defend his performance this season quite simply because there is nothing to defend.What they do not do is try to blame the support and fanbase for Wengers continuing failure.This result is just another failure from the manager.

In fact, were one of these two eventually to triumph, it would be an embarrassing indictment of Wenger's failure to build a team capable of going all the way.

The failure of the 2014 Tigers to do anything but embarrass themselves in October is fresh in the minds of plenty of teams, and Papelbon — who the Tigers considered but ultimately avoided acquiring last summer — could help another team avoid their fate.

that's what is hilarious, he literally spits on our faces and says» you don't know anything i have managed over 1000 amount of games» but can't even beat middle team club like stoke in 8 attempts or beat mouth - rinho in 13 attempts, he think's he's amazing but he is actually embarrassing, he is getting us thrashed REGULARLY, the only team that hasn't completely embarrassed us are the spuds, I actually can't understand how fans didn't riot when arsene went to rome for charity matches when we needed him the most, I'm not even angry at him anymore, how can a man so proud let moroninho call him a «specialist in failure» and just prove him right time and time again, not only will it benefit arsenal for arsene to leave but it will also help the man himself, do the right thing and take a walk mate

With that being said, though, Corbin could use a win after his embarrassing defeat and loss of the Money in the Bank briefcase, so maybe we'll see his anger at his own failure show up in this match and drive him to victory over a possibly overconfident Cena.

When England conclude their business with Euro 2012 - be it an embarrassing and unlikely failure to qualify, the usual quarter - final exit to a palpably superior team, an unexpected and glorious run to the semi-final, final, or even to the promised land of victory and the Big Shiny Silver Cup - Fabio Capello will conclude his business with England.

But, many teens are afraid of failure and don't want to embarrass themselves.

Failure # 3 (I didn't get to be there for her birth like we'd planned), Failure # 4 (she had what looked like an ideal birth and I didn't), Failure # 5 (I was embarrassed to be pumping giving my baby a bottle in front of my friend who was breastfeeding).

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

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.

And the police, embarrassed by its hacking failure, thought it had got something on Murdoch's journalists after all once it was handed evidence of payments to public officials.

The loss — the latest in an embarrassing string of failures for the US space programme — could leave the US without any means of collecting observations for civilian purposes.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

They hinted recently that some form of sabotage may be responsible for Phobos - Grunt's problems, and perhaps for the other four embarrassing space failures Russia suffered in 2011 as well.

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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.

The kind of failure that not only is embarrassing but hurts.

Attrition rates are generally embarrassing to schools, and when reported by the media these are seen as evidence of school 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:

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.

Some sit in near total silence, push out their books without any notice, almost as if the writer was embarrassed by what they're doing or is so fearful of failure that they try everything they can not to draw attention.

In case you don't remember a time prior to Kindle and the rise of self - publishing, that choice used to basically be the «failure» choice for writers who couldn't cut it in the industry, and it was embarrassing to tell people that you had done it.

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.

Thus, today there's a keener appreciation that cap - and - trade regimes such as Europe's ambitious Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280 billion.

The paper has been debunked as wishful thinking and statistical failures (particularly embarrassing if you're trying to overturn statistical evidence) that rely heavily and uncritically on biased sources and is coated with an irrelevant layer of political posturing.

Higher helmet use shouldn't be a goal, it should be seen as a failure of policy, an embarrassing statistic.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

The NFL Hall of Famer chanced failure in front of millions when he joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1990, at a time when the top - ranked team was suffering from a string of embarrassing losses.

But then you look at the stats from the day and realize about thousands of people you don't know and everyone googling «stinky feet» forever more now know the embarrassing truth about your laundry and child rearing failures.