Sentences with phrase «political embarrassment»
"Political embarrassment" refers to a situation where a politician or a government faces humiliation or humiliation due to a mistake, scandal, or controversial decision they have made. It usually involves public criticism or ridicule, affecting the reputation and credibility of the individuals or the government involved. Full definition
He is alleged to have asked someone else to take speeding points on his driving licence, to avoid political embarrassment.
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Instead, he faces the potential political embarrassment of having mayoral control stripped away by his enemies, which could leave him extremely vulnerable during the next mayoral election, in 2017.
«We know this transparency would not be without political embarrassments.
Last week as a result, a governor of Massachusetts (in this case Governor Christian Herter) found himself reduced, for the first time in recorded history, to a state of deep political embarrassment by a sea worm.
«Accidentally repeal old criminal offences before new ones in force — major political embarrassment — go back two spaces», one states.
Jury selection is set to begin Monday in a case that has already proven to be a source of personal pain and political embarrassment for Cuomo, a Democrat and possible presidential candidate in 2020 who came into office vowing to do something about Albany's corrupt culture.
The director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, said: «The fundamental duty of the Metropolitan Police is to protect Londoners from harm, not the government from political embarrassment.
Endowed with both the royal Skill magic and the despised Wit, FitzChivalry may be the only one who can retrieve the Prince before his betrothal ceremony — thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment... or worse.
The F word wasnt actually used because that would have toppled the whole IPCC totally, which would have resulted in much political embarrassment.
«There is powerful evidence that using Sir Gus O'Donnell to carry out the swift investigation was a decision taken to hide the whole truth in order to satisfy political expediency and avoid political embarrassment to the coalition,» he wrote.
«Our sense is that the political embarrassment of health care failing will serve as a driver for the GOP to redouble its efforts to enact tax relief in this Congress.»
Her reaction to political embarrassment was to invent nonsense stories about foreign leaders trying to subvert British democracy.
«It therefore appears that this was not properly drawn up by civil servants in order to avoid conflicts of interest in government, but hastily cobbled together after Mr Crosby had become a political embarrassment to the Conservative party,» Trickett wrote in a reply to Heywood's letter.
This paper is informed that, the contractors, might soon pack their equipment and vacate the site, as the Akufo - Addo government is afraid of the political embarrassment it will face for commissioning a project initiated by its predecessor, whom it had accused of nonperformance and incompetence.
A number of pro-Remain Tories have backed Labour's move, with former chancellor Ken Clarke accusing ministers of trying to protect the government from «political embarrassment».
What was once largely a political embarrassment could have metastasised into legal jeopardy.
The source, who for years built strong personal relations with Bloomberg, said that Bloomberg's ego can't take the de Blasio beating and political embarrassment without him standing up and fighting back.
It is because the Opt Out movement is a political embarrassment to Randy Dorn and all of the other Common Core SBAC supporters.