Sentences with phrase «international embarrassment»

Coach K, who was hired four weeks ago to save USA Basketball from further international embarrassments, has not hesitated to bring in overseas talent in his day job.

To make matters worse the company at the heart of the privatisation plans G4S, was responsible for the security shambles at the Olympics which brought international embarrassment to the UK in the run - up to the London Games.

Set in an interesting period that suggests the existence of the Cold War between the US and Russia, the film lurks in the shadows where trust is a commodity that no one can afford to lose for the fear of sparking a huge international embarrassment or a full - scale war.

«Afenyo - Markin has elected to sacrifice himself just to save Ghana further international embarrassment.

Obama is the first president in my lifetime who has been about the American people and not about wasting 8 years accomplishing nothing (or accomplishing the wrong thing: letting the economy tank, starting a war in the wrong country, making America an international embarrassment).

Scrapping the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) would be an international embarrassment for the UK, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has said as it urged parliamentarians from across the political spectrum to defend the law.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, described as shameful and an international embarrassment the declaration by the Senate that...

Speaking In an interview with Saturday Vanguard, former scribe of the NFF, and one time member of House of Reps, Sani Toro said Dalung should go by the rules and not subject Nigeria to international embarrassment.

unprecedented confusion has rocked Ghana's delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament, bringing about what some members are calling «international embarrassment to the country.»

The non-partisan Climate Institute said Australia had taken «a monumentally reckless backward leap», while the Australian Conservation Foundation said the vote «makes Australia an international embarrassment».

Its severe air pollution has become a source of domestic discontent and international embarrassment that Chinese leaders can no longer ignore, said Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at People's University in Beijing.

The Australian government is fast turning into an international embarrassment on climate change.