Sentences with phrase «public embarrassment of»

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

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.

«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.»

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.

Not exact matches

That caused plenty of public outrage and embarrassment, so Congress passed a bill authorizing the AMT to start in 1970.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

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.

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

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.

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.

Add to this truth the lightning fast and obviously very public nature of social media and mistakes become nearly inevitable — and potentially disastrous, as many companies have already found out to their great embarrassment.

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.

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..

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.

And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.

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.

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.

The fatc that there are many states that have laws that exclude atheists from holding public office is a personal source of embarrassment.

As it turned out though, Arsenal suffered another 5 - 1 hammering to lose the tie with a whopping score of 10 - 2 and following the embarrassment, Gunners» right - back Hector Bellerin has gone on to deliver a public apology to the club's faithful after the woeful displays put up by his side.

The dramatic drop by the six - month mark reflects the interplay of a number of factors: struggles with the mechanics at the beginning; the need to attend to older children; the difficulties of maintaining breast - feeding upon the return to work; the embarrassment of baring a breast in public places.

This term is usually used to describe a behavior pattern in toddlers ages 18 to 36 months that is characterized by demands, noise, tantrums, the word no and all kinds of other behaviors that cause embarrassment to the adults that dare to take their children out in public during this time period.

If a compromising image of your teen goes public or gets sent to others, your teen could be at risk of humiliation, embarrassment, and public ridicule.

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.

Although many parents fear the embarrassment of disciplining their child in a public space, there's really no need to be embarrassed.

Regardless of any looks you get, your child doesn't understand your embarrassment, so remember that public tantrums aren't meant to humiliate you.

These perceived barriers include the difficulty and embarrassment of breastfeeding in public, the problem of maintaining personal identity whilst breastfeeding and general attitudes towards breastfeeding and women's bodies in wider society — as well as those held by mothers, fathers and families.

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.

«This continual parade of corruption trials of New York's public officials has become a national embarrassment,» Schorr said.

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.

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

He bowed to intense pressure to quit and save his party further embarrassment and damage from the row over his payment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funds to his wife and two sons.

«The Board of Elections may have just spared New York from becoming a national embarrassment on Election Night,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

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.

Public officials accused of violations of such statutes suffer but mild embarrassment from a public which really doesn't appreciate that what they don't know can hurtPublic officials accused of violations of such statutes suffer but mild embarrassment from a public which really doesn't appreciate that what they don't know can hurtpublic which really doesn't appreciate that what they don't know can hurt them.

No employee will represent themselves in any public social media forum as an employee of the Buffalo Police Department with information, opinion or posture that would bring unfavorable criticism or embarrassment upon the department.

«Under Andrew Cuomo, public corruption in our state capital has become a national embarrassment, and robbed New Yorkers of the honest, trustworthy government they deserve,» Nixon said in a statement.

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.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»

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

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 you can guess Farley's character is a clumsy embarrassment to his brother (played by Tim Matheson) and inadvertently causes all manner of horrendous goofs whilst in the public eye.

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

Even when you're laughing at Beverly's appalling insensitivity and the hideous embarrassment of a couple taking it out on each other in public, it's hard not to feel that in this production Abigail's Party is a pitiless set of character studies in search of a play.

Good formative assessment removes the embarrassment of public hand raising and gives teachers feedback that impacts how they're teaching at that moment.

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.

Research suggests that the pressure of high - stakes, timed tests and the risk of public embarrassment are some of the major sources of stress among math students.

As a product of Montgomery County public schools 1980 through 1992 this focus on what they call evidence - based (corporate profits) driven education has transformed my feelings of pride regarding the strength of my education into feelings of frustration and embarrassment regarding the current assessment obsessed core curriculum environment!

And errr... Mark Martin is correct... having witnessed first hand the ungainliness and ill handling of a Veyron being driven in anger head to head against an RS6 on I - 70 between Summit County and Vail (FYI the RS6 to the great embarrassment of the VeryGoneWrong's driver took the Veyron to viable performance on public roads school) I can testify first hand and unequivocally that the Veyron is as bad if not worse than the Hennessey on the street