Sentences with phrase «public embarrassment for»

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

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 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.

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She has also helped me evade detection by grabbing me and kissing me, in public, in a fashion that causes passerby's to feel embarrassment at the thought of staring and by creating emotional scenes that cause the curious to momentarily forget what they were looking for.

He has ignored the CEO playbook for a company that faces a crisis of public trust: He does not grovel, he does not evince embarrassment at the size of the lapse.

Democracy depends on people of conviction fighting for what they believe in the public square — non-violently, respectfully and ethically, but also vigorously and without embarrassment.

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.

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.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

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?

In Dallas, following the advice of their hired public relations experts, the bishops capitulated in order to avoid further embarrassment, and the consequence will be greater embarrassment and demands for further capitulation.

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.

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

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.

To ensure less embarrassment in public, and just to teach your breastfeeding toddler manners, you might consider teaching them to either sign and ask for nursing, or ask them to use an appropriate term like «milk, please», «Nursey» or others.

More than 50 per cent of women believed it would be uncomfortable to breastfeed in public, and a majority of men and women did not want their child to be breastfed in public for fear of embarrassment.

The conditional provision states that matters that may bring the office of the President into public ridicule and even matters that subject the whole country to embarrassment are grounds for impeachment.

David Miliband in the Shadow Cabinet would have meant front - bench embarrassment in the Commons; speculation and briefings about splits, and two focal points for the cameras in public (as indicated by his Iraq exchange with Harriet Harman).

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.»

Despite tonight's show of unity, Brown suffered the embarrassment of Labour's former general secretary Peter Watt disclosing that in 2007 one of the triumvirate, Alexander, favoured Brown going for an early general election, partly because he feared the public would quickly come to dislike the prime minister.

The Pentagon Papers also marked the first time that the phrase national security was revealed, to a mass public, as an often - hollow cover for government lies and embarrassments.

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.

In remarkably short order, the DC public schools would transform from a much - admired school success story to a major embarrassment for everyone involved.

As «justification for action,» the IPMP / EA falls well short of what is required; as a public record, it is wholly unacceptable — and, to be very candid about it — an embarrassment to the agency and the people involved.

Many media outlets see this as evidence to previously held suspicions that McIver is not a real person, since the majority of McIver's social media content was created after she was blammed for the embarrassment, and she's never actually appeared in public.

I personally believe that the compensation awarded for her public embarrassment was appropriate, i understand why other people may think otherwise.

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.

ECtHR said the conduct of the newspaper was «open to severe criticism» and that it had published additional video footage for no reason but to «titillate the public and increase the embarrassment of the applicant» (Mosley v UK [2011] ECHR 774).

The other is about disclaiming a child when he or she misbehaves in public to cover up for the embarrassment.

Self - control appears to be similarly beneficial in this domain: for instance, having high self - control underlies one's ability to keep promises, a behavior that may foster trust between partners.4 High self - control in relationships would seem to discourage interpersonal problems, such as attentiveness to alternative partners, which may lead to lower relationship satisfaction and extra-relationship affairs.5 Perhaps if people like Tiger Woods and Bill Clinton had higher self - control, they would have stayed faithful in their relationships — and avoided significant public embarrassment.

There was even a law once in place that declared a man had to buy 12 pairs of gloves for his lady if he were to deny her proposition, to save her the embarrassment of a ring-less hand in public.