Sentences with phrase «political embarrassment to»

«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.

«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.

Not exact matches

«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.»

This means that while the Conservative Opposition will understandably try to squeeze some short - term political gain from Mr. Trudeau's embarrassment, it and the media are unlikely to dig deeply into why this sort of thing occurs.

«In an age when secularism is more common, too many politicians - through a misplaced sense of political correctness or embarrassment at «doing God» - seem to shy away from discussing any matters related to faith,» he said.

I think the point was that this sort of discourse has no place in politics, and is frankly an embarrassment to our entire political process.

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.

Her reaction to political embarrassment was to invent nonsense stories about foreign leaders trying to subvert British democracy.

Mr Speaker, this episode has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with political embarrassment.

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.

In an embarrassment for the political establishment, Guillermo Philpotts, a perennial candidate for local office, secured the Democratic nomination for a Crown Heights Assembly race this afternoon, beating back a last - ditch effort from ex-Democratic boss Clarence Norman to keep him off the ballot line, sources say.

According to the Special Adviser, Ekiti has suffered for too long under the current political leadership, subjecting the state to untold ridicule and exposing Ekiti sons and daughters at home and abroad to embarrassment of the highest order.

The House of Lords appointments commission, which has to vet political nominees for financial and other potential embarrassments but does not get a say on the political suitability of their appointment, is standing ready for a new political list, but does not expect one before the new year.

Writes Tom Robbins: «Gustavo Rivera provided one of the few hopeful notes in a gloomy political season, thanks to his gutsy decision to take on a statewide embarrassment, Bronx State Senator Pedro Espada.»

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».

Already, Spitzer appears to have done the impossible: won at least a bit of respect of Cuomo, a political strategy obsessive — and a man who came back from his own political and personal embarrassments after being forced out of the 2002 governor's race after a messy public split with his wife, Kerry Kennedy.

«Another worrisome development is the information at my disposal that the APC is plotting to sponsor thugs to disturb the PDP primary election scheduled for Tuesday 8 of May as to create the impression that violence is common to all political parties — they want to give the impression that it is not APC alone, rather than do the needful, put the party in order, save Nigeria this embarrassment and Ekiti People, they believe that if they create problem in the PDP primaries, they will be able to douse the embarrassment that has greeted their primaries.

A clever political strike, trying to turn to the Coalition's advantage the Tories» embarrassment at having been forced to protect these benefits for pensioners because of David Cameron's cowardice during the televised debates during the election campaign in April.

Senate Democrats raised that money despite a dragged - out budget battle that impeded fund - raising and high - profile political setbacks and embarrassments, including a monthlong coup last year that briefly handed the Senate back to Republicans and a series of state and federal investigations of prominent Senate Democrats.

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.

The theory undergirding this system is that schools in danger of failing will improve their academic performance to avoid the political embarrassment and potential loss in revenues from having their students depart with tuition vouchers.

It is a significant fact that through nearly half a century, while these distinctions have been the subjects of vehement and sometimes bitter social and political discussion, the Cooper Union has gone quietly on educating its thousands of pupils without the least embarrassment in its discipline, and apparently without even the consciousness on the part of its founder or its trustees that in this [74] perfect solution of what was supposed to be a difficult problem they had accomplished anything extraordinary.

Embarrassment, I think, is behind a lot of the lack of political will to deal properly with the world's scandalous sanitation situation.

The CLOUD experiment could then turn into an embarrassment for the many governments funding CERN, each of which had committed enormous political and economic capital to ameliorating the alleged effects of human economic activity on the climate of our planet.

This speaks loudly to the fact that these writers are engaged in a very political debate: they sense that the embarrassment caused by the Times Atlas affair undermines the wholly alarmist argument they have been advancing; they have lost ground to «the sceptics», which must be recovered.

Does this not speak loudly to the fact that these writers are engaged in a very political debate: they sense that the embarrassment caused by the Times Atlas affair undermines the wholly alarmist argument they have been advancing; they have lost ground to «the sceptics», which must be recovered.

That lack of openness and transparency is the very reason they've had to bear so much criticism for their failings to date, whereas an open door, approachable policy from the very beginning would have saved them much scientific and political embarrassment in the long run.

Public pressure is a function of education, concerted action through civil society and the embarrassment of political leaders who are failing to protect the rights of Canadians.

The Dulwich home proved to be an embarrassment for one of Barratt's arch rivals, Taylor Woodrow, whose founder, Frank Taylor, was a personal friend of Thatcher's and gave political donations to her Conservative Party during her time in office.