Sentences with phrase «possibility of any embarrassing»

It could have gone either way for Ed Balls this year, but once the Labour leadership election has ascended to its expected conclusion, and the former chancellor judges that the possibility of embarrassing his wife has receded, I strongly urge Balls to go for sequins rather than ermine.

By frequently featuring himself as the protagonist, Zobernig thematicises the practice of performance and with it the ever - present possibility of the embarrassing exposure of the self.

And the penalty for running afoul of ethics rules can be far harsher than breaking the law: There's the possibility of an embarrassing public reprimand or suspension, and for a brief time, blogging could have resulted in a denial of malpractice coverage.

Not exact matches

While I expect $ s, and perhaps the possibility of getting sued, are big factors, I suspect the biggest reason RL backed off is that he has embarrassed the GOP, keeping social issues front and center, making it very difficult for them to get back to talking about the economy.

Among the criteria that scholars use, one of the most problematic is, paradoxically, also one of the best» the principle of embarrassment, which claims that those traditions about Jesus that would have been most embarrassing to the early Church have the greatest possibility of being true.

Recognizing a spiritual pilgrim who is starting down a path, Jesus seeks not to embarrass Nicodemus, nor condemn him, but to offer him, instead, the possibility of new life.

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There are several nominees as to what the «L» represents but some of the leading possibilities include earthly, enigmatical, embattled, embarrassing, egregious, and eery.

Prof Kwaku Asare also warned of a possible threat from the opposition parties in the country, saying «even if creating a region is desirable, the possibility that the opposition will mobilize to embarrass the government must not be underestimated».

Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia University and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study boldly faced up to an embarrassing but insistent possibility: perhaps the parity - conservation law simply broke down in the realm of particle decays like tau's and theta's!

And given the embarrassing note in the SI, I don't think it is remotely out of line to raise the possibility that someone was being instructed to commit scientific misconduct.

Even if the publisher wasn't aware of the possibility of using the smart tech available to e-book publishers (which might just be an explanation, but a very embarrassing one at that), there are other ways of avoiding the issue.

A few days ago, I posted about how Baker & McKenzie embarrassed itself in the blogosphere with a heavy - handed, pre-emptive cease and desist letter to BoingBoing about the possibility of its allowing unauthorized streaming of Word Cup soccer games.

It should be noted that despite having a name that HTC executives should be embarrassed ever made it to the short list of possibilities, «BoomSound» is quite fantastic.