Sentences with phrase «into embarrassing»

Best ask in a way that doesn't put the other person into an embarrassing position.

In fact, this specific area of the troposphere has only warmed a fraction of the IPCC's predictions, turning the «hotspot» into the embarrassing «AWOLspot.»

RED - faced bosses at Edinburgh Castle have been forced into an embarrassing change of plans after public outrage over a charity partner.

Despite winning the author's affection, Miriam manages to get herself into some embarrassing scrapes.

What we get from the Farrellys is the same one - note characters forced into embarrassing slapstick for easy and cheesy laughs.

And as long as Jim gets himself into embarrassing scrapes, which seems to be all the time (and as long as people keep paying to watch his torturous experiences), this «American Pie» series shows no sign of ending.

If you're not careful, you might stumble blindly into an embarrassing situation you could have otherwise avoided with just a quick review of some common acronyms.

To make the calculations agree with what is observed, astronomers have been forced into an embarrassing situation.

Osborne, who was sacked by Theresa May in July, was forced into an embarrassing U-turn at last year's autumn statement over planned reductions to tax credits.

The Chancellor has also been forced into embarrassing U-turns over a planned # 1.3 billion cut to disability benefits this year and # 4.4 billion of tax credit reductions in last year's Autumn Statement.

Democrats in the Senate persuaded the chamber's parliamentarian that several minor provisions in the House bill violated Senate rules, forcing the House into an embarrassing second vote.

The government has been forced into an embarrassing climb down.

Lord Leveson was forced into the embarrassing position of having to order a security investigation into his own inquiry today, after a protester burst from behind him to shout at Tony Blair.

The development threatens to put the Times, arguably the most respected of Rupert Murdoch's media outlets, into an embarrassing legal encounter with the courts.

But before that could happen, all my beliefs about child birth had to change and I had to come face to face with the fact that I had bought into an embarrassing amount of crap, and that — at least in some cases — I should have known better.

But Wenger's teams have an ability to turn easy wins into embarrassing losses.

It happened in the second half of the Patriots» win over the Dolphins last Sunday, when all of a sudden a tight game mushroomed quickly into an embarrassing blow out.

As for Arsenal, the Gunners will be desperate to not fall into embarrassing circumstances.

It is as though God had got Himself into an embarrassing situation; it is as though the shrewd man were in the right if he were to say to God, «It is Thine own fault.

Since they obviously can not do that, they are forced into an embarrassing logical corner.

In May, before the end of «don't ask, don't tell,» the Navy was forced into an embarrassing about - face when if first OK'd and then changed its mind on marriages on military bases.

Some had a particular and curious hatred for St John Paul, announcing that there would be a Divine intervention to prevent his canonisation, only to fall into embarrassed silence when that prediction failed along with others.

They've invested a lot of TV time and money into Bliss, and they're not going into embarrass her on the big stage

Matters of theory rarely disturbed the 20th - century palaeontologists; they assigned species names to practically every fossil they found until biologist Ernst Mayr, wielding insights from genetics, stunned them into embarrassed silence.

Not exact matches

In denying Democrats even a jot of Republican co-authorship, the GOP has thrust the law wholly into the Democrats» hands, and that includes Healthcare.gov's embarrassing rollout, a fiasco damaging enough to undo the wounds Republicans self - inflicted in the government shutdown.

By trying to embarrass Harper for running deficits, Mulcair and Trudeau are playing into the prime minister's hands.

An especially embarrassing breach came in September 2014 when an Army veteran with mental health issues scaled a fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House and made it as far into the building as the East Room before the Secret Service could apprehend him.

Looking back, I was really embarrassed, because I felt like I had no idea what I was walking into.

Vice-president of product management Bradley Horowitz has been a bit more direct, telling Reuters, «In the online world, there's this «share box,» and you type into it and you have no idea who is going to get that, or where it's going to land, or how it's going to embarrass you six months from now.

To the extent that the Petraeus news could have been framed as embarrassing to President Obama, it's encouraging that it didn't find its way into the press after being shared with Cantor's office.

«Californians should be embarrassed that they fell for this psychological trick hook, line, and sinker and have even gone as far as to integrate it into the regional identity.»

You never know who you will see or sit next to on the plane; you may be embarrassed to be wearing ratty sweatpants and an old T - shirt as you run into a client in the lobby of the hotel.

Utilizing remote access video options, you can tune into your store at the time of an alarm, visually confirm the activity and help distinguish a break - in from an embarrassed employee dashing in to grab forgotten keys.

Siri: after a four - year lead, Apple's most fascinating service has been embarrassed by the prowess and ubiquity of Amazon's Alexa — which is finding its way into TVs and washing machines!

Many are desperate for it to rescue Parliament from its embarrassing descent into the gutter.

Another way would be to embarrass Allergan into just saying that itself.

That investigation includes looking into the effort to quash embarrassing stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.»

Further, do you really think I would sit back and do nothing while Nazis killed 6 million of my «chosen people,» but find it important enough to intervene and turn water into wine to stop some hosts being embarrassed at a wedding in Cana?

The arguments fall roughly into two categories: those of the don't - embarrass - yourself variety, and those of the more serious don't - cut - your - own - throat variety.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.

If we think this question through, we might be embarrassed into the realization that God's Word is read for a greater purpose than simply to provide the preacher a sermon text or pretext.

If the big dude really does exist, then I would have to think that he would be embarrassed of the billions of people that lazily beg him to get into heaven and throw away their gifts of intelligence.

Though they're too embarrassed to tell him what they've been talking about, Jesus» legendary response has passed into idiom.

I think the Russians already taught everyone that lesson when they tried to commit genocide in Afghanistan to force them into communism (and annexation), only to be destroyed and embarrassed.

... But now the watchdogs have been cross-bred into an amiable hybrid, with seldom an embarrassing bark.»

This embarrassing episode culminated in Jennifer resigning from her post and finally, five years into her struggle, being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.

It's an embarrassing advent, and so we leave it to those embarrassing Christians who have turned apocalyptic speculation into a billion - dollar industry — prophecy buffs with their computer charts and wrong predictions that are then folded back into new predictions in the kind of prophetic improvisation that Paula Frederickson calls «apocalyptic jazz.»

Embarrassed at its cultural «irrelevance,» the church has sought to generalize its specific story into vague consensus values, to translate its concrete doctrines into something as airy as Percy's reverential regard for human life.

I also leaned that I apparently have the memory of an elephant... which can be good or bad, depending on what embarrassing story pops into my head.