Sentences with phrase «of national embarrassment»
But hey — at least you're consistent in being fine with mediocrity and being proud of national embarrassment due to the first Title IX investigation in school history and multi-million-dollar lawsuit settlements and court defeats.
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'' The president's veto of the Keystone jobs bill is a national embarrassment,» said the top Republican in the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
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.
«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.»
The National Day of Prayer is an embarrassment to America and makes us look as intellectually barbaric as fervent middle eastern theocracies that in many ways haven't progressed much past the last millennium.
And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.
It's no surprise that reigning national champion Ohio State and its embarrassment of riches at quarterback ranks first in this year's poll, giving the Buckeyes the trifecta of first place in the AP Top 25, Coaches Poll and Bill Connelly's preseason power rankings.
A major league player, who shall remain anonymous to spare him tremendous embarrassment, commenting on the chances of Washington, D.C., being awarded an expansion franchise in the National League: «The league can't give Washington a team.
Even with Clayton Kershaw on the shelf with an injury, the National League has an absolute embarrassment of riches of starters with a group that includes Jake Arrieta, Stephen Strasburg and Noah Syndergaard.
Among other things, she addressed the complaints from grassroots reformers that they — not Jamie Oliver — should be getting attention and credit: «Those of us who are truly concerned about the welfare of America's children, health care system, and food supply should be grateful that long - awaited and much - needed attention to what has become at best a national embarrassment, and at worst a national crisis, has finally arrived.»
The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.
«This continual parade of corruption trials of New York's public officials has become a national embarrassment,» Schorr said.
We can manage embarrassment, but when we allow another outbreak to occur in August this year, it will become a national shame to all of us.
Claim 19: «The Chairperson through her arrogant posture brought embarrassment to the Commission by refusing to grant audience to the members of the National Peace Council and the leader of the Africa Union Delegation Mr. Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa during the 2016 General Election.»
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.»
The Senate has described as national embarrassment the recall and reinstatement of former Chairman of Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.
The appointment of deceased persons as members of various federal boards by President Muhammadu Buhari - led APC administration is an unpardonable national embarrassment, the Peoples» Democratic Party (PDP) said on Saturday
On what was the President's response on invasion, Saraki said, «Of course, he sees it as an embarrassment to the country and that there will be a proper investigation because it is something that is not just about the National Assembly, it is about the country.»
«These final days leading up to the budget are going to define Gov. Cuomo's entire term in office, and I can assure you he's not going to sit back and let himself be defined by a spendthrift, dysfunctional, scandal - scarred, national embarrassment of a Legislature,» said a second source close to Cuomo.
«The party could avoid the national embarrassment of a Paladino candidacy and mount a substantive challenge to the Democratic nominee, Andrew Cuomo.
Recall that the Times said much the same thing in its recent endorsement of Lazio, going so far as to warn it would be a «national embarrassment» for the GOP if Paladino wins next Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the state Republican Party released its first TV advertisement of the campaign season, declaring that Albany has been broken by a Democrat - controlled one - party system that has engaged in fiscal mismanagement and produced a «state government that is a national embarrassment.»
«The Board of Elections may have just spared New York from becoming a national embarrassment on Election Night,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
The opposition National Democratic Congress» (NDC) Deputy Director of Communications suffered huge embarrassment after he was thrown out of the studios of Accra based Peace FM during a live political show Monday night.
The business activities of Menzgold, The Herald learnt has since 2014, been done in a legally acceptable manner, thus preventing fraud and the usual embarrassment brought upon Ghana by scammers posing as gold dealers and duping foreign nationals by selling them stones and iron bars painted in gold.
Meanwhile, the government has suffered further embarrassment after it emerged one of the 11,000 foreign nationals working illegally was employed at the Home Office.
Rising from a meeting of its national working committee on Thursday in Abuja, the party urged the national assembly to «thoroughly investigate the shameful act, including the distortion and banding of figures to accommodate their personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions is meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body».
If programmes alone could solve our problems, SADA would have brought prosperity to the three northern regions of our country by now; instead of which SADA has become an embarrassment and a gaping sore on our national psyche.
Labour leaders have condemned the sacking of 145 workers by Continental Broadcast Services Ltd, describing it as a national embarrassment.
Saraki said the President saw the invasion of the Senate as an embarrassment to the country and promised that the incident would be properly investigated because it was not just about the National Assembly but about the country.
The group said though it is within the rules and powers of the House to regulate its internal affairs and sanction an erring member, but the imbroglio surrounding the House of Representatives is a National embarrassment that transcends an internal affairs of the hallowed chambers.
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.
In a disaster for voting rights and democracy — and a horrifying embarrassment for New York — the incompetent New York City Board of Elections inexplicably removed more than 100,000 Brooklyn voters off the rolls amid the national spotlight of a crucial presidential primary.
«The National Assembly considering what President Trump said about our leader and nation should be celebrating this icon of integrity and the new face of democracy in our nation than this unwarranted demonstration of shame and embarrassment.»
«Under Andrew Cuomo, public corruption in our state capital has become a national embarrassment, and robbed New Yorkers of the honest, trustworthy government they deserve,» Nixon said in a statement.
Still, for Spinola — long considered one of the smoothest political operatives in the state — being called out so publicly in a front - page national story could be an embarrassment, one source said.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Idris Ibrahim, has described the abduction of secondary schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State as a national embarrassment.
The scandal has since caused great embarrassment to Ghana and officials of the GOC have since last week suspended two staff of the National Sports Authority after initial investigations implicated them.
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Baeumler has called the state of the prime minister's residence in Ottawa a national embarrassment, but successive occupants have been wary of a backlash should they launch an expensive rebuild.
In the absence of national security issues and the seeming absence of a valid intellectual property interest, a «Freedom of Information» demand upon Mann, et al, might prove fruitful, either directly or through embarrassment.
Late last year, to their national embarrassment, the Germans had to be bailed out of a small energy crisis by Poland when the wind failed to blow for several days and a thick fog surrounded many parts of Germany, driving the output from renewables to just 4 percent of total demand.
What began as a community driven campaign to Close the Gap in life expectancy — a national disgrace and embarrassment — has now been adopted across the whole range of our existence.