Sentences with phrase «public embarrassment»

We've been through public embarrassment of gas, looked in the toilet and saw blood, and had to clean up when we didn't make to the bathroom on time.

First of all, the preacher should have been locked in the stocks and made to suffer people throwing rotten tomatoes at his face as public embarrassment for his stupidity alone.

At that point, over a year ago, my wife and I agreed to a settlement to avoid public embarrassment to our family.

One of those measures has now resulted in more public embarrassment.

Today, we practice rain - or - shine until lowering and raising the roof is no longer a five - minute long public embarrassment.

Public embarrassment on a planetary scale is hardly comfortable.

The result in most cases is a cancelled game and public embarrassment for the developer.

One thing is for certain however, an early shot has been fired across the bow of UK boards: Pay remains a highly contentious issue, and one which shareholders are willing to provide management with bloody noses and public embarrassment over.

Is there something to be said for sparing mother and / or child from public embarrassment, economic burden, disability and other «problems» that can sometimes come with carrying a pregnancy to term?

Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner withdrew their divorce case from court on Wednesday, agreeing to private negotiations in order to spare their 6 - year - old son further public embarrassment, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

If that's not enough public embarrassment for you, tune into the sordid affairs and finances of Toni and her kin in the Braxton Family Values reality show on WE.

The situation is the latest public embarrassment for parks chief Jesse Madison.

The Supreme Court, however, could have protected a teacher's ability to recognize student achievement without defending a practice that too frequently causes public embarrassment.

It has proven to be one of the most public embarrassments of the Bloomberg administration, now in its controversial third term.

For example, recall the leak of Nixon Peabody's theme song that caused the firm widespread public embarrassment — not so much because of the song's cheesy lyrics, but rather, the firm's heavy - handed reaction when the video was posted on Above the Law.

In a statement Hoyt said he and his wife agreed to a settlement to avoid public embarrassment to their family.

COPYCAT federal magistrate Jennifer Rimmer has rejected a top - level invitation to «take the honourable step» and quit her $ 220,000 job to save further public embarrassment.

The incident is not only a public embarrassment for Bell, but also exacerbates tensions between it and the CRTC that have been brewing since the regulator originally rejected parent company BCE's purchase of Astral Media in 2012.

It was a public embarrassment for the company.

I've just found them to have the lowest hurdle of nearly anything you can challenge yourself with — no extra cost, time, risk of public embarrassment, risk of injury, scheduling conflict, membership, equipment, dependence on weather, etc..

Given the history of these failures, it is reasonable for the Orthodox Church leaders to proceed with due caution to spare themselves yet another public embarrassment.

But then there is this: «Others, for political and even ecclesiastical reasons, seek the public embarrassment of politicians whose public positions differ from church teachings through the public refusal of the sacrament of Holy Communion or public admonition by the bishops.»

Seems to me the only time believers denounce other believers in public is when some cult's activities become a public embarrassment for all believers.

Furthermore, those who interrupt this service of worship become a source of public embarrassment, if not shame.

After three early playoff exits, a plethora of coaching changes, chaos from the front office downwards, and the public embarrassment of angering the star they gave up everything to get, the Knicks traded Anthony for a mere return of Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott, and a second - round pick.

If you are not up for the possibility of public embarrassment, stick to cooking at home.

As your child's self - awareness grows, so does potential for public embarrassment or perceived embarrassment.

At that point, over a year ago, my wife and I agreed to a settlement to avoid public embarrassment to our family,» Hoyt said.

Public embarrassment, through a newspaper's exposure of inconsistency, is a practical means of ensuring accountability, so long as the newspapers do their job.

Hoyt has admitted the deal was reached more than a year ago to «avoid public embarrassment» to his family.

«My wife and I agreed to a settlement to avoid public embarrassment to our family.

At that point, over a year ago, my wife and I agreed to a settlement to avoid public embarrassment to our family,» he said.

Since any such trip would require extensive planning and security preparation for the Presidential visit and given the public embarrassment that not allowing a US President to enter a nation, it's improbable that any trip would be undertaken without the clear understanding that the President's visit was a welcome event.

«We must replace the public embarrassment of existing campaign financing laws, which allow enormous contributions and unlimited expenditures, with a system of reasonable limits that levels the playing field and ensures that meritorious candidates are not discouraged by the costs of running for public office.»

You are even protected from public embarrassment and humiliation of rejecting the other person without hurting any feelings.

Talking helps you to find out if a certain person is the «one» without any public embarrassment of being saddled with a wrong date.

Naturally, the carefully planned proposal becomes a public embarrassment, thanks to Michelle's active libido and the untimely arrival of Jim's dad (Eugene Levy).

As they decide how to proceed in the face of public embarrassment and potential castigation, Dovid becomes caught in the middle.

We also fall for stupid marketing schemes where we believe words like «extreme» and «ultimate» really mean anything, we want our news reports to include such trivial gossip like celebrity births or public embarrassments, and we have even elected (and re-elected) a president who, by his own admission, is at an intelligence level not much higher than the common citizen.

The film's tough to watch at times, as these folks edge their way to inevitable moments of public embarrassment.

Yet that seems a minor problem compared with the security - camera video of Colin canoodling with a married cheerleading coach that goes viral at the least opportune moment — a public embarrassment that further lowers the temperature on his already frigid marriage to Deborah (a wasted Connie Nielsen).

Bonding over the public embarrassment their respective dogs put them in, Roger and Anita click and, before you know it, they're married.

Now the Bellas are seniors, trying to live down a public embarrassment by winning an international a capella championship.

It's as if Cody and director Jonathan Demme don't trust the familial drama to stand on its own, so we're constantly made aware of the sense of public embarrassment as a roomful of WASPs are made uncomfortable by the display of animosity.

The almost constant carping by some members of the Youngstown Board of Education about the academic distress commission exerting its statutory authority over the system's academic recovery has become a public embarrassment.

For far too many families, especially poor families, charters are the only alternative to neighborhood public schools that are little more than a public embarrassment.