Sentences with phrase «embarrassment to government»

If they are wrong then they are going to prove a huge embarrassment to any government prepared to believe them.

Association of Teachers and Lecturers general secretary Mary Bousted said Sir Michael's recognition that the London challenge was «highly effective» in transforming schools in the late - 1990s was «an embarrassment to the government».

Mr. Stringer complained in an interview with the Observer last month that «NYCHA never acknowledges any of our audits» and called the authority «an embarrassment to government.»

The Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi today defended an official ministerial trip to Pakistan she made with business partner Abid Hussain, but apologised to the Prime Minister for any «embarrassment to the Government» it may have caused.

I regret that this failure may have caused embarrassment to the Government.

Though one reflects «a man of ideas is often an embarrassment to the government», Sir Charles Cantilupe's (Gerrard McArthur) portrayal of congenial morality plays well against Trebell's favour of principles over people.

«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.»

Although notional in nature, this balance has been an ongoing embarrassment to the government.

Although the surplus was notional only — there was no actual money in the EI Account — it was an ongoing embarrassment to the Government, as its existence was a major issue in the EI rate - setting process.

Not exact matches

The bid for a Canadian technology company by a Chinese company is sure to be a cause for concern and perhaps embarrassment for the government of Stephen Harper.

When the city of Lillehammer could only scrounge up $ 289 million to foot the bill, the oil - rich Norwegian national government ended up bailing out the city with the rest of the $ 1 billion in order to avoid national embarrassment.

We know the revelation that the Florida Retirement Pensions System had a small investment in gun manufacturers is an embarrassment to that organization and to the government of Florida.

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.

But then some surprises: Canada, whose government led by Steven Harper has been backing away from the previous government's commitment to Kyoto, began publicly leaning toward the U.S. position; and then, to the embarrassment of the Kyoto group, Japan, home country of the treaty and of course a signatory to it, joined the United States and Canada in looking favorably on the voluntary approach.

Why are we always the stupid country with clowns like this in government for the world to laugh at — talk about an embarrassment...!

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

Nothing like having your government throw billions down the drain to host the World Cup for a semi-final embarrassment.

This is an embarrassment of a government to Ghana and Africa.

The sole intention was to ensure that the Government did not invite Trump for an official state visit «because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen.»

«And frankly, I find our government to be an embarrassment.»

A reader forwarded this fundraising letter sent out by former Gov. George Pataki on behalf of gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio in advance of the GOP convention that condemns the government he used to lead as a «national embarrassment.»

«It therefore appears that this was not properly drawn up by civil servants in order to avoid conflicts of interest in government, but hastily cobbled together after Mr Crosby had become a political embarrassment to the Conservative party,» Trickett wrote in a reply to Heywood's letter.

The petition reads: «Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen.»

The government still have time to save the whole nation some embarrassment, by reviewing its decisions and using ADR to resolve this matter and save the country all the cost that comes with litigation and compensation as we have cautioned earlier.

As a former Whip myself in another place and as a great admirer of our Government Chief Whip here, I hope that the Government, of whom I am a strong supporter, will have the courtesy and common sense to spare her and themselves the embarrassment that will otherwise ensue by not attempting to whip what will in any event be de facto free votes.»

This, combined with the embarrassment it could cause to the Government, would be enough to force a «vote of no confidence» in the Speaker and lead to Bercow being removed.

Finding by PRNigeria revealed that the action of Magu in instituting criminal charges against Umar has caused serious confusion and embarrassment to the Federal Government because the EFCC reports had made clear that the CCT boss had no case to answer.

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.

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».

«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.

So bad have things got that the government even gave up capturing the data on purposeful activity in 2012 to hide embarrassment at their terrible record.

«It will be a national embarrassment if our judges are compelled to decide this, since the judges like every citizen have a right to an effective remedy and they will be perfectly entitled to approach the court for reliefs if your government does not urgently find satisfactory solutions to this problem.»

«Maybe the publicity - friendly strategy is also because Bharara suspects he won't have the facts to send anyone to jail — and that to truly change the culture of state government, punishment is less effective than embarrassment, anyway.»

Daudu also urged the court that he should compel the federal government to obey the court order and save the judiciary from embarrassment of disobedience.

It is important to state that no amount of industrial actions by faculty and staff, would force the government to cough up money it does not have, and no matter how unprecedented the strike lingers, such action will only continue to put our universities at great financial risk and in a state of embarrassment.

He said the PANDEF led by the foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, though had set the pace and part of the action the government was working on, the group had become an embarrassment and a grace to the people of the region.

He's restored functionality, if not total rationality, to a state government that had become a national embarrassment.

A number of pro-Remain Tories have backed Labour's move, with former chancellor Ken Clarke accusing ministers of trying to protect the government from «political embarrassment».

Clark nonchalantly let slip that he had encouraged the sales, to the great embarrassment of the Conservative government, and the executives charged with the illegal exports were acquitted.

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.

The government risks further embarrassment this year as Mr Brown has been uncompromising in his insistence public sector workers such as nurses, police officers and prison guards must accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise to maintain inflation.

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.

Founder and Leader of the All People's Congress (APC) Party, Hassan Ayariga, has described government's flagship free SHS policy as an embarrassment to students and parents.

The director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, said: «The fundamental duty of the Metropolitan Police is to protect Londoners from harm, not the government from political embarrassment.

But in some Tory eyes he seems to be making a whirlwind transition from government embarrassment to ministerial martyr.

The actions of the Appointments Committee are an embarrassment and affront to good government.

She is credited with helping to turn the city's HIV / AIDS program from an embarrassment into an emblem of what can be done by local governments with talented employees and solid links to academia and the community.

The Pentagon Papers also marked the first time that the phrase national security was revealed, to a mass public, as an often - hollow cover for government lies and embarrassments.

Description: James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and O.J. Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on Mars after their spacecraft is determined to be unsafe for blastoff.

She described the figures as an «embarrassment» for the Conservative Party, claiming they highlighted that the government had failed to get a hold on the current teacher recruitment crisis.