Sentences with phrase «ongoing embarrassment to»

Although notional in nature, this balance has been an ongoing embarrassment to the government.

Although the surplus was notional only — there was no actual money in the EI Account — it was an ongoing embarrassment to the Government, as its existence was a major issue in the EI rate - setting process.

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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.

He said, «The ongoing trial of the VC, to those of us in the academics, is largely an embarrassment in the sense that we are fully aware of what led to the spurious allegations against the VC.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Committee of Deans of FUTA, Prof. Shedrack Akindele, has described the ongoing trial of the VC as an embarrassment to the institution.

One hopes in vain for Sutherland, who's turned in some madly fey performances in his time, to contribute some subversively ironic distance from the ongoing embarrassments of Lady Ice, but he manfully pretends to be titillated by O'Neill's nonexistent challenges and lopes gracelessly through his assigned paces as a Columbo of the insurance circuit.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.