Sentences with phrase «international embarrassment to»

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

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.

Not exact matches

The demonstration is part of a series of international demonstrations in 19 cities designed to maximise Russia's embarrassment ahead of a St Petersburg G20 summit later this week.

In his words: «The road linking Oshodi to the International Airport, you would all agree with me is a national embarrassment.

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.

Balogun also argued that his client was exposed to «public ridicule, odium, opprobrium, embarrassment and unprecedented disrepute», arguing that the duo had done «incalculable and tremendous injury to our client's image and personality as an international figure».

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

So whilst our attendees face the unenviable (but actually extremely enviable) task of working out their schedules, we've dug through the near and far corners of this embarrassment of riches to highlight the 15 films we're most anticipating from this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

Now the Bellas are seniors, trying to live down a public embarrassment by winning an international a capella championship.

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.

This government is an embarrassment to Canadian scientists who attend international meetings and have to try to explain this daft and illogical situation.

Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city's reputation.»

He goes from policy failure to tweet - war to international embarrassment and back to failure.

But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home - grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the problems of Indigenous disadvantage.

In the June 13 speech to the American Constitution Society, Holder called Guantanamo an «international embarrassment» and said the next president must close the detention facility and transfer prisoners to military prisons.

She was detained and removed from her father's care, and only released when international outrage began to cause embarrassment.