Sentences with phrase «embarrassment over»

Although treatment for syphilis and other STDs is more accessible and effective than it was a century ago, bogus cures still abound, taking advantage of people's embarrassment over receiving treatment from a medical provider.

But to spare itself further embarrassment over its Walter Mitty whistleblower,

But to spare itself further embarrassment over its Walter Mitty whistleblower, the Guardian should admit that it's possible to do targeting without access to the Cambridge Analytica dataset, just as they do.

There is general embarrassment over investments in short - only funds.

Sales people instinctively smell fear so ditch any lingering embarrassment over brokering a cheaper deal.

Polly Courtney first made news on this site earlier this year for abandoning traditional publishing after her self - published titles gained some well - deserved attention from the industry; at the time, Courtney had some strong words for her feelings about the experience, including her embarrassment over her book titles and the way traditional publishing lumped her into genre categories.

It got so bad that multiple major proponents of encouraging reading contacted me in embarrassment over the responses (because some of it was unprofessional, and much of it was just badly reasoned).

Then again, fear is the key component of Shaun's life, that and his acute and constant embarrassment over things like memory lapses and a fondness for fart jokes.

The second commentary is half as reverential: Stupin and Williamson, properly reacquainted with «Dawson's Creek» by this point, mock a subplot about Jen's dying grandfather and express embarrassment over the laid - on - thick «chick rock» — observing simultaneously that male singers tend to drown out dialogue.

Partly due to her own embarrassment over a New York Times wedding announcement that she wishes didn't come up when people searched for her, Spira believes that it's too easy to misconstrue or jump to an incorrect conclusion about a piece of information without knowing its context.

I built up the courage to take those pictures as the cars drove by and I was pretty much dying of embarrassment over who was going to see me.

Not all abstainers feel embarrassment over their indulgences, and won't necessarily feel the need to consume these treats in solitude.

To make matter worse, I was also dealing with the new consumption of guilt, self - blame, and embarrassment over how I have come to be this person who owned so much junk!

Democratic caucus participants (though not Republicans, whose caucuses vote by secret ballot) must publicly state their opinion and vote, leading to natural problems such as peer pressure from neighbors and embarrassment over who one's preferred candidate might be.

He evidently decided that, with the TUC Conference looming next week, it was better for him to suffer a final embarrassment over Falkirk yesterday than remain exposed to it during the coming week.

He would have been spared all his recent embarrassment over his bid for a knighthood if honours were sold open and honestly by the Treasury instead of under the counter by politicians.

In recent times, the 700 - year - old chamber has been mired in conflict and embarrassment over an expenses scandal that ended the careers of dozens of lawmakers in the prelude to last year's general election.

Equally the riots, phone hacking and embarrassment over the NHS and forestry commission reforms would have severally damaged most other prime ministers.

Next is a piece which suggested that our embarrassment over pornography has led to politicians being able to churn out ignorant regulation which almost impossible to enforce.

Don't let embarrassment over your changing body persuade you to keep squeezing into your pre-pregnancy clothing in a futile effort to avoid the maternity look.

No more embarrassment over the way he behaves or the choices he makes.

It isn't that we never experience religious fear, but isn't our dread characteristically a dread born of unbelief, the secret terror that the analogical and symbolic character of our religious speech is but a cover - up of our embarrassment over the fact that we have only symbols and no proofs?

Odder still, after saying he had to support the position of the U.S. government, he went on to deplore that position, observing that Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, shared his embarrassment over official queasiness about the scientific uses of the unborn dead.

Part of it is perhaps a belated expression of guilt and embarrassment over having for so long defended the indefensible.

That would relieve their embarrassment over him as well as give him a fresh start — a new chance.

One thing is for certain however, an early shot has been fired across the bow of UK boards: Pay remains a highly contentious issue, and one which shareholders are willing to provide management with bloody noses and public embarrassment over.

Not exact matches

But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

«Embarrassment all over campus from the rank and file about the Kin announcement,» wrote one Microsoftie in an e-mail to Silicon Alley Insider, a popular tech blog.

Weissbluth went into a new industry willing to admit there was plenty he didn't know, and he says he had to get over his initial embarrassment.

Skip over the passive aggressive e-mails to the whole team to save the new guy from embarrassment.

The video is mercilessly mocked, tarnishing all the positive brand building the company has done over the last few months and feeds the «embarrassment» hype.

With no sign of grain and oilseed prices falling, farmers have an embarrassment of choices to make in the coming years over what crops to grow.

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.

But at this point, economic data have consistently contradicted Achuthan's «rolling over» assertion and claim that we're now in a recession, a position that is rapidly becoming an embarrassment.

Aliens taking over the world is a scary thing, sure, but humanity drowning in willful ignorance while the corrupt consume more and more of their livelihood... that's both a tragedy and a galactic embarrassment.

«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.

That would be quite an improvement over the national embarrassment that is currently residing in the Whitehouse.

In the middle and senior schools, the State - school religion passes over into embarrassment, farce or plain general debate.

And if my suspicion that the move to immaterialism originated in the embarrassment of elite theologians over the scandal of the incarnation is even partly correct, then nothing could be more important for how Christians experience God than to think again about the metaphysics of matter.

Many Whiteheadians pass over this aspect of Whitehead's thought with embarrassment.

Overcoming embarrassment derived from left - over childhood feelings about sex helps free a couple to talk about and explore their mutual pleasure.

God gives «slaps on the wrist» over and over, sometimes to the point of embarrassment.

The man should be an embarrassment to anyone with an IQ over 65.

The major embarrassment came from the conflict between the Spanish Crown and the emerging governments over the control of ecclesiastical appointments, especially to bishoprics.

(And, of course, the man who was totally confused over my embarrassment about my unflattering uniform.

These are all discoveries I have made at some point in my life and while the first few would have potentially saved me a lot of embarrassment and blushing had I known these beforehand, the latter would have also saved me lots of not - so - satisfying chocolate treats over the year.

The man seems to think because he was loyal to the club they owe him everything, Wenger forgets he has been handsomely paid by the club over two decades the latter part being almost an embarrassment.

And out of all the Power 5 opponents they've hosted over the years, no one would have expected a rebuilding Virginia team to be the one to deliver a nationally televised embarrassment.

I've had to put up with some real embarrassment as a gooner over the years, but for some reason that would be the ultimate.

Though little progress looks to have been made over the signing of the trio, other than the embarrassment of having their initial offer for the latter publicly rejected.