Sentences with phrase «of embarrassed by»

To be blunt, I think many of TOD staff members are kind of embarrassed by the survivalist stuff, and see it as something that undermines what they are trying to do, by making us look like kooks.

The food was totally worth it, but I'm kind of embarrassed by my rookie mistake.

Blankets are a must in this house and we're kind of embarrassed by how many we have on our beds!

Indeed in Copeland, in the Lake District, the site of an embarrassing by - election loss in February, Labour's candidate Gillian Troughton lost her council seat.

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Consider this quote from Reid Hoffman, CEO of LinkedIn: «If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.»

Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

But what emerged is a story of a company trapped by an overly ambitious launch schedule, an inexperienced leadership team expected to deal with the biggest crisis in the firm's history, and a sophisticated retail giant felled by the most mundane, basic and embarrassing of errors.

(Or, if you're like me, do you just want to stop feeling embarrassed by your inability to remember the names of people you met five minutes ago?

Trump repeated the claim that the Russia investigation is an effort by Democrats to save face after an embarrassing loss, citing the number of electoral votes he won.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been quoted as saying, «If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.»

«Why would we as Canadians be embarrassed about adopting a policy that says these assets are important to our sense of nationhood, and we want there to be significant ownership by Canadians?»

CIBC was ranked one of the world's safest banks by Bloomberg earlier this year, and McCaughey has re-built the financial heavyweight following a spate of embarrassing setbacks.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said, «If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.»

In cases where people have been taken advantage of by an advisor, they are embarrassed and often in denial.

But to blame a publication primarily aimed at and created by women for the systematic harassment and assault many women endure — often at the hands of men — is an embarrassing repurposing of the #MeToo movement.

The decision by Justice Jennifer Schecter of the New York state court in Manhattan in favor of California restaurateur Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's «The Apprentice,» raises the prospect that Trump might have to answer embarrassing questions in court about his behavior toward women.

A number of other embarrassing debacles followed — including reports that Uber had used a software tool to try to deceive authorities by «hiding» rides — and ultimately resulted in a more than 20 % decrease to the once high - flying company's valuation, from around $ 70 billion to an estimated $ 54 billion.»

Invented by Mary Flanagan, a Dartmouth college professor and founder of gaming research lab Tiltfactor, this card game lets players enact — and react to — the most embarrassing work situations possible.

The professional watchers of the Bank of Canada were badly embarrassed by Governor Stephen Poloz's decision to take out recession «insurance» in January.

If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Cohn opened the meeting by casually flipping through a six - inch - thick manila folder of purportedly embarrassing information on his guests, which included former GM CEO Fritz Henderson.

Tsipras embarrassed pundits the world over by blowing up negotiations with Greece's creditors instead of accepting an 11th - hour agreement that would have erased fears of default.

Some social media - savvy customers delight in tripping up bots and then embarrassing the company by posting screenshots of the awkward conversation online.

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

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!

I'm not embarrassed by being a serial entrepreneur, but I am not proud of having sold so many companies.

He was humbled and embarrassed by many of the things that he brought on himself through his mistreatment of women.

Uber was also embarrassed by the exodus of senior executives, including Jeff Jones, the company's president.

However, Facebook also may have looked to thwart the publication of potentially embarrassing personal messages sent by Zuckerberg or other executives.

The exciting opportunity for startups is to skate to where the puck is going — by thinking beyond exploitative legacy business models that amount to embarrassing blackboxes whose CEOs dare not publicly admit what the systems really do — and come up with new ways of operating and monetizing services that don't rely on selling the lie that people don't care about privacy.

When have we embarrassed Berkshire by some sort of side position?

After suffering two embarrassing departures of its members in the wake of sexual harassment complaints by staffers and female members, the Minnesota Legislature is considering amending the...

After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, spent much of last week weighing whether to hold a vote on the measure that included the new amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.

Entrepreneur - turned - angel - investor Jason Calacanis doesn't mince words, and this week's Too Embarrassed to Ask podcast is no exception: Asked by one of our listeners if he regretted selling his shares of Facebook when they were going for only $ 110 - 120 (versus $ 174 at the time of this writing), he had a one - sentence answer ready.

Embarrassed by the fallout from the resignation of the former chair of the B.C. Arts Council, the B.C. Liberal arts minister went on the radio to spread misinformation about why she resigned.

-- you do not want to embarrass yourself by admitting any kind of statement that MAY BE FALSE.

Words that if they were able to take a step outside of their own heads and hear, they'd be embarrassed by.

How about some acknowledgement of the tens of millions of Christians and Jews brutally slaughtered by the Vatican over the centuries, or would that be too embarrassing for CNN?

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

Except for the vulgar allegiance of what McGinn calls «Fundamentalist Christians,» «the legend» of Antichrist no longer captures the imagination: «Most believing Christians seem puzzled, even slightly embarrassed by Antichrist, especially given the legend's use in fostering hatred and oppression of groups.»

«I'm embarrassed as I'm getting older about how much of my energy and vitality as a younger man was driven by ego and a win - lose mentality.»

Take it as a rule: Whenever it is necessary to handle embarrassing but well - founded facts, some Russians are sure to call them a fabrication invented by a conspiracy of Westerners and Jews.

As an atheist, I find myself increasingly embarrassed by the level of intolerance shown by other atheists.

He found himself embarrassed by stirrings of the flesh whenever he had to baptize women, and he finally decided to leave the monastery.

The Vatican has been in crisis mode for weeks after an embarrassing series of leaks dubbed «Vati - leaks,» in which sensitive documents were published in a book by an Italian journalist.

Christians shouldn't be embarrassed by the forthright sensuality of sexual love depicted in the Bible, says John Piper More

In the fall of 2009 a petition, organized by Fellow of the American Physical Society, Roger Cohen, and containing the signatures of hundreds of distinguished APS members was presented to the APS management with a request that at least the truly embarrassing word «incontrovertible» be taken out of the statement.

Wrote one bureau official to the associate director afterward: «We have neutralized the threat of being embarrassed by the Long Subcommittee.

I used to think this was because they were embarrassed by their loss of a loved one, job or health.

The real youth rebellion, he suggests, may be in the resurgence of the world of swing, where people unabashedly, and with high style, have fun, and are not embarrassed by the fact that men and women are, after all, significantly different.