Sentences with phrase «embarrassment on»

This monstrosity of a battery can save you embarrassment on a rainy day, no questions asked.

Say nothing to any of your back - stabbing colleagues because the embarrassment on leakage that you were turned down would be too much to bear.

In what may well be an orchestrated manoeuvre between the Met Office and Mark Thompson, Director - General of the BBC the freedom of information demand will heap huge embarrassment on David Cameron's gaffe - prone coalition government.

I was hoping that JGR could be spared further embarrassment on the heels of the McLean et al debacle.

Public embarrassment on a planetary scale is hardly comfortable.

Let's just say an error of mathematics when packing almost led to personal embarrassment on the road for Curzon, but the retail expansion of Uniqlo came to the rescue and today I am draftless and secure!

Whether you foolishly ordered the garlic mushrooms or you're trying to tackle spaghetti with a shred of elegance, food can be a big cause of embarrassment on a first date restaurant scenario.

One reason for this is that there is a lot of shame and embarrassment on both sides when sexual issues come up.

Senior Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have broken ranks to question David Cameron's resistance to an inquiry, while the opposition raised the stakes with a series of moves designed to heap further embarrassment on the government.

But the bigger embarrassment on primary night belonged to the Bronx Democratic establishment, which is nominally led by Assemblyman Marcos Crespo.

But they could have inflicted embarrassment on the Lib Dem leadership by changing the motion that endorsed the deal.

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».

«The Board of Elections may have just spared New York from becoming a national embarrassment on Election Night,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

At this point, discussing his own administration's epic embarrassment on national TV is preferable to conducting business with the Assembly and Senate.

The development is likely to heap further embarrassment on the prime minister, who refused several times to name the company who conducted checks on his former director of communications yesterday.

Merely reading this article filled me with embarrassment on behalf of the children, for their nakedly manipulative attempts to shovel junk food into their maws instead of learn to like something with a reasonable amount of fiber in it.

The Red Devils slumped to another home embarrassment on Sunday, only managing a draw at home against bottom side Fulham.

You could see the rage and embarrassment on Martin Keown's face as he sat through this interview.

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

Luke Timothy Johnson's basic response to scholarly research on the historical Jesus is embarrassment on behalf of the Church: embarrassment that Christ's own followers would treat him as a dead figure of history who can be understood only through strictly rational methods of inquiry, barring faith and hope from having their say.

For the administration, Grassley's discovery is just the latest in a long line of embarrassments on the green - jobs front.

Not exact matches

Early Sunday on Twitter, Trump called North Korea «a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China.»

Important points include minimizing the departing staffer's embarrassment — and keeping an eye on his or her actual departure.

«On a general level, there can be practical barriers to pursuit of a criminal case, such as the victim company's fear of embarrassment, reputational damage, or the perceived risk — real or not — that their trade secrets will be exposed in a court proceeding,» said Brooke French, shareholder at law firm Carlton Fields.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

A funny thing happened on Oct. 20 (a.k.a. Axe Wednesday), when U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne moved to save his nation, a long - time centre of global finance, from the embarrassment of losing its triple - A credit rating.

«It's an embarrassment: coffee stains on walls (and countertops and desks), overflowing compost bins, abandoned drafts of stories and layouts (full of highly confidential content), day - old, half - eaten food, and, yes, I'm going to say it, action figures.

Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner withdrew their divorce case from court on Wednesday, agreeing to private negotiations in order to spare their 6 - year - old son further public embarrassment, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

If that's not enough public embarrassment for you, tune into the sordid affairs and finances of Toni and her kin in the Braxton Family Values reality show on WE.

I'm used to watching TV shows and movies on the iPad Mini's comparatively tiny 7 - inch screen, so the additional visual real estate was almost an embarrassment of riches.

Past news reports seized on what writers claimed was Trump's embarrassment and / or displeasure stemming from those jokes.

Democracy depends on people of conviction fighting for what they believe in the public square — non-violently, respectfully and ethically, but also vigorously and without embarrassment.

«The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family,» Denton wrote in a lengthy statement issued on Friday afternoon.

«The money was paid because of the embarrassment in an allegation like this,» Giuliani said on Fox Business Network.

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

I've just found them to have the lowest hurdle of nearly anything you can challenge yourself with — no extra cost, time, risk of public embarrassment, risk of injury, scheduling conflict, membership, equipment, dependence on weather, etc..

«The existence of these guys on the street is a disappointment to us, it should be an embarrassment to the government, and it is a reality that 85 people per night are suffering in the National Capital Region right now.»

«What really annoyed me is that when it first started people would switch off their phones in embarrassment now they are cupping their hands over the receiver and carrying on talking.

You're basically saying that when people get on a forum to discuss their opinions — however off topic they may be @ times — is nothing but embarrassment to our nation.

And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.

Maybe you don't have any embarrassment about claiming that Noah fed and cleaned up for many kinds of dinosaurs on his voyage.

It's all good fun — soaring dunks, rim - shattering put - backs, off - the - board passes, half - court three - pointers, Steph lying down on a fast break to avoid everlasting embarrassment.

Should they ignore it to spare the doctor embarrassment, or correct it on the grounds that they owe this either to their own dignity, or to the doctor, to let him know that he is producing an effect opposite from that he may be intending to achieve?

This will save that pastor the embarrassment of having to explain to his congregation on Sunday that he was wrong.

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McGrath concludes that «Dawkins» views on the nature of faith are best regarded as an embarrassment to anyone concerned with scholarly accuracy.»

he and his family are an embarrassment, not to mention the subversive policies he is installing without benefit of being voted on by the legislation.

Their hierarchy has always been the major source of embarrassment for the Church... dating back to the little fiasco with Galileo (which took them 400 years to finally acknowledge)... up to the current scandals... along with their current views on gays (which, like Galileo, goes against the empirical data now known).

In Taxi Driver, the camera even hangs on the awkward reactions of those around Travis Bickle as scene after scene of personal embarrassment leads to him to seek validation and purpose through redemptive violence.

I have already done so in pointing out this point of embarrassment for you — trying to make any case based on self / circular reference.