Sentences with phrase «embarrassment to new»

The fact that for fourteen years the New York State Senate has failed to bring GENDA to the floor for a vote is an embarrassment to all New Yorkers who value equality.»

«This is a legal and bureaucratic and governing mess that's a complete embarrassment to New Yorkers,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

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Compared to the challenges faced by China's old guard, the new team's problems can best be described as an embarrassment of riches.

As corporate - governance expert Charles Elson recently noted in the New Yorker: «People who can ask to be paid a hundred million dollars are beyond embarrassment.»

Most people don't want to deal with the accompanying embarrassment or shame that is often required to learn a new skill.

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.

Bain has tried to contain the damage to its reputation, particularly in Europe, telling new hires that the publicity has provided it with free advertising and assuring clients that the firm will suffer no gross embarrassment.

In other words, there's much less embarrassment about asking to be paid for services provided, and there's more openness to those who can bring something new to the table.

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.

Many parents need to be reassured that their embarrassment is not a dereliction of duty but a natural concomitant of modesty and itself conveys to their children a certain respect for the body and for the generation of new life.

This tension belongs essentially to the New Testament and is not introduced as a secondary solution born of embarrassment, (See particularly F. Buri, «Das Problem des ausgebliebenen Parusie», Schweiz.

Many New Testament scholars contend that Matthew uses this dialogue to address a «messianic embarrassment» troubling some followers of Jesus.

They purchased him a new suit to deal with the embarrassment in the press.

New Delhi: In a major embarrassment to the BJP, which has spearheaded the Ram Temple movement and Hindutva agenda, the party's Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani today termed Ram, the protagonist of Ramayana, as a «bad husband».

The new starting QB will have an embarrassment of riches at receiver, though the run game needs to become a little more consistent.

Good article states many reasonable conclusions and facts about the season and how amongst all the turmoil we have a manger who does well but one thing in purchases over the last five years we are 6th in the epl were at 366m tottenham in 5th with 397m and he made a mistake there we are 6thin money spent on players but we have had the sanchez saga and new players adjusting to epl and the team and injuries and it definitely hasnt been our year in ref decisions which have played a factor in games though we still should have won aside from ref but watford and westbrom many other games are included at city free offside goal weak penalty and at spurs we were robbed of going one nil up auba onside bu honestly the officiating across the whole league this year has been an embarrassment to professional officials of all sports its been bad game after game they need to get some rigorous training this offseason for improvement

Spiralling in to new levels of embarrassment!

How much more embarrassment do we as fans have to put up with before things change, because we've had the heavy defeats home and abroad, the standard of our football is declining fast, we don't develop players good enough to take us forward, the couple of world class players we have won't sign new contracts, we've got mediocre players on big wages and not good enough, the manager who blames everyone and everything but himself and finally the fans who blindly support a system that's clearly falling apart but are to scared to change.

No matter how much I try to ignore Fleet Street's greatest embarrassment, I can't help finding new things about this fear - mongering, xenophobic, Thatcherite rag to annoy me, usually via a Newsnow link.

The Long Island congressman and New York's junior senator fired off a letter to Lawrence F. Probst, chair of the US Olympic Committee, asking that he and the Board of Directors «take immediate steps to guarantee that this embarrassment does not happen again by voting that any future contracts for Olympic uniforms are made in America.»

The lack of protections against violence for transgender New Yorkers is a colossal embarrassment to the illustrious civil rights history of our state.»

What began as a scandal about newspaper ethics now threatens to become a serious embarrassment for David Cameron, after the latest carefully researched allegations by The New York Times, which suggest that Coulson was much better informed than he made out.

Astorino said the corruption by government officials in New York «has reached a staggering level of embarrassment,» and he blamed Cuomo for failing to keep his promise to clean up Albany.

When Angela Merkel meets David Cameron in London today, one topic could cause embarrassment to both leaders: Cameron's association with the German anti-Islamist movement, Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), which was condemned at the New Year by the German chancellor.

The week began with embarrassment for the Conservative party chairman, whose concession that his denial of having had a second job had been «over-firm» introduced a new phrase to the lexicon of lying.

In a major embarrassment, the Prime Minister has ditched plans to means test the winter fuel allowance, introduce a new generation of grammar schools and end the triple lock on pensions.

The House of Lords appointments commission, which has to vet political nominees for financial and other potential embarrassments but does not get a say on the political suitability of their appointment, is standing ready for a new political list, but does not expect one before the new year.

There is likely to be particular embarrassment for the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, if new party lists are announced.

It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.

The News of the World phone - hacking scandal is set to reach a new peak of embarrassment for the paper and for Scotland Yard with the naming of the sixth and most senior journalist yet to be implicated in illegal news - gathering.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has faced a rocky start to his second tour as New York's top cop — with a slew of embarrassments and setbacks since he was sworn...

There's still a wariness in the air, though, a fear that the whinings of Adam Skelos are not the final embarrassments to be yielded by Preet Bharara's tapes (and new corruption details could arrive as soon as next week, when Skelos and his father, Dean, the former Senate Republican majority leader, are expected to be formally indicted).

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«You can't imagine my total embarrassment at having to call the attorney and ask for a new one,» he says.

About half of all girls at UK secondary schools might be avoiding sport because of embarrassment or pain caused by their breasts, according to new research.

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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.

Surely you would like to avoid any embarrassment and communicate outspokenly that is rather difficult when you are face to face with a new acquaintance on an offline meeting.

And there is certainly no embarrassment today about using apps and dating sites to make new connections.

When you keep your rebounds discreet and unknown to most of your inner circle, you can avoid embarrassment and all the «friendly advice» telling you that you should be exercising or starting a new project or whatever.

And finally, as one of the first games to receive Ubisoft's new copy protection, it's an embarrassment.

Louis C.K. has been accused of sexual misconduct toward several women, including masturbating in front of them to their horror and embarrassment, according to a report in The New York Times.

This new one continues the story of Samara and her hatred of home video entertainment, and features Johnny Galecki and Matilda Lutz fighting to save people who watch what is now probably a haunted Snapchat, and then die seven days later, possibly from social media embarrassment.

«The New York Film Critics Circle deeply regrets any embarrassment caused its guests or honorees by any member's recent actions,» Stephen Whitty, critic for the Star - Ledger and the group's new chairman, said in the statement «Sadly, disciplinary measures had to be taken, to prevent any reoccurrence.&raqNew York Film Critics Circle deeply regrets any embarrassment caused its guests or honorees by any member's recent actions,» Stephen Whitty, critic for the Star - Ledger and the group's new chairman, said in the statement «Sadly, disciplinary measures had to be taken, to prevent any reoccurrence.&raqnew chairman, said in the statement «Sadly, disciplinary measures had to be taken, to prevent any reoccurrence.»

Both actors show their new masks to the camera sans embarrassment or apology.

The cramped non ergonomically compliant work spaces in new facilities are an embarrassment to good design rules.

At the same time, lousy records and a desire to avoid embarrassment meant that many districts had overstated their capacity in the tech census; they were suddenly faced with millions or even hundreds of millions in unanticipated new expenses, even as they dealt with the practical headaches of inadequate technology.

In Embarrassment: And the Emotional Underlife of Learning, Thomas Newkirk discusses how having even one known strength can infuse us with the confidence to get through life's toughest lessons, and it turns out that new teachers regularly do bring certain strengths and have some advantages over more veteran teachers that help them to navigate the tumultuous seas of those first years.

When I thought of how considerate my Seoul teachers had been in invariably giving prolonged proud introductions to new students, almost to the point of embarrassment, I could not hold back my disappointment.