It's a bit of an embarrassment.

Your passport is an embarrassment already.

You caused me a lot of embarrassment.

Lots of laughter, quite a bit of embarrassment.

Till the embarrassment started coming and the insults.

So we decided to spare ourselves any possible embarrassment.

I felt an embarrassment How could I have done that?

He will have the embarrassment of walking the entire floor.

Spare me the embarrassment of having to listen to your lies.

Actually, I realize fear of embarrassment drives me as much as any ambition.

But imagine my embarrassment when I found out that 5,000 offer was just hooey.

Ladies and gentlemen it seems like the only embarrassment here tonight is my presence.

I'd relieve the lady of this embarrassment... but you know how women are with firearms.

Your only fault is in not telling me in advance... and saving me the embarrassment.

OK, so if you try the same exercise with kids, they have no embarrassment at all.

And she said, You know, the poverty wasn't so bad. It was the humiliation and the embarrassment of it all.

Some of it s embarrassment and some of it is because they just don t believe that what emerges is necessarily valid.

The second guy we'll call him Bill is transfixed by embarrassment, at staring at the thing there in the center.

In sum, the only plausible reason for concealing the information was to avoid inconvenience and embarrassment to the State party.

An Olympics commentator working for Canadian broadcaster CBC suffered embarrassment on Thursday night when he confused Michael Phelps for rival Ryan Lochte.

Higgins, if there's any mishap at the Embassy tonight... if Miss Doolittle sufers any embarrassment whatever... it'll be on your head alone.

Even if it's just shame or embarrassment or gossip, you need some sort of punishment to bring people, when they're in large groups, to cooperate.

Now in the late 1990s, he discovered a vulnerability on all U.S. government networks, and he went in and patched it up because this included nuclear research facilities sparing the American government a huge security embarrassment.

I have a really nice anecdote from a friend of mine who said that the thing he noticed most about his teenage daughters before and after puberty was their level of embarrassment in front of him.

In trying to decipher Asia s diplomatic future, Europeans are confronted, so to speak, with an embarrassment of riches. Is Asia today replaying the balance of power games of late nineteenth century Europe, with China in the role of Germany?

Many of these business leaders would have preferred to stay out of politics but Russia s poor education system, economic feudalism, official homophobia, and other festering problems have left them no choice. And Putin himself has become an insufferably vulgar embarrassment.

Lack of special measures for the child witness may expose him or her to retaliation by the offender. It may also give the child the feeling that he or she is the one on trial, resulting in guilt and embarrassment.

The sleek footbridge swayed unexpectedly and excessively under the feet of pedestrians, and it was deemed too dangerous to use. What should have been a mere extension of the millennia old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.

Make no mistake policymakers track record on forecasting Greek economic performance during the crisis has been an embarrassment. In May 2010, the International Monetary Fund projected presumably in concurrence with its European partners that Greece s annual GDP growth would exceed 1 in 2012.

And we, the Member States, have refrained from opening up that subject to public discourse over the past 60 years because of what? Because sentiments of pride, mixed in with a deep sense of embarrassment, have often produced in us only outright denials.

Two States (Oman and Spain) proposed adopting a text similar to the formulation placed in brackets, while another (the United States) proposed adding a clause that would permit Governments to authorize the acceptance of gifts if the refusal would cause offence or embarrassment.

Parliament s functioning has become, to most Indians, an embarrassment and, to many, an abomination. People turn on their televisions and watch in disbelief as their elected representatives shout slogans, wave placards, scream abuse, and provoke adjournments indeed, do almost anything but what they were elected to do.

One question is why Bush and Cheney set themselves up for this embarrassment. Bush has said that he learned of the NIE s conclusion only a week before it came out a statement that either is false or reveals a level of incompetence beyond anything suspected so far.

After its initial embarrassment by Twitter in 2009, the Iranian government was able to suppress the country s green movement in 2010. Similarly, while the great firewall of China is far from perfect, the government has managed thus far to cope, even as the Internet has burgeoned in the country.

There's only one obvious conclusion to reach from this mountain of evidence our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit, and my poor parents were trying to protect us from the embarrassment, this humiliation of rejection by Santa, who was jolly but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

The human and intellectual qualities of the three remaining candidates are even viewed with some envy on this side of the Atlantic, where you can hear statements such as Could we borrow just one of your candidates? Many Europeans feel all three candidates are superb, and that, contrast to previous elections, America is suffering from an embarrassment of riches.

Government officials presumably recognize the embarrassment that would be caused were Britain to fall short of the 2 target, so they seem to be looking for programs that can be squeezed into the Defense Department s budget to pad spending. This is exactly the sort of behavior the UK has criticized in others lumping all sorts of pension payments and intelligence commitments into their calculations of defense spending.

That retraction appears to be causing as much embarrassment and diplomatic vitriol in Japan and South Korea today as the original series did. But, at a time when both countries cannot afford to permit partisan or sloppy abuses of history to roil their bilateral relations, Asahi s careless work has turned out to be more than abysmal journalism it has introduced a dangerous element into regional diplomacy.

A more benign interpretation, based on the collective action principle, envisages the court as instrumental in attaining a superior welfare equilibrium. Individuals know fundamentally what is good for them and for society, but they are often hesitant to act accordingly, owing to fear, embarrassment, or, very often, the belief that their actions will not be worthwhile if others do not follow in their footsteps.

Could the rollout last fall of the inferior Apple Maps, which sent people to the wrong destination causing severe public embarrassment and leading to a managerial shakeup foreshadow a time when Apple s best days are behind it? The company could be at a high plateau and could stay there for years, even decades, but does it really need 137 billion in cash for new investments?

While welcoming the formulation of a national policy on the care of people with disabilities, the Committee is concerned that children with disabilities are still discriminated against and often considered an embarrassment by their parents, are not adequately integrated in the society or in the mainstream school system and do not have adequate access to social services, including health care, especially those living in remote areas.

(l) If refusal of an unanticipated honour, decoration, favour or gift from a Government would cause embarrassment to the Organization, the staff member may receive it on behalf of the Organization and then report and entrust it to the Secretary General, who will either retain it for the Organization or arrange for its disposal for the benefit of the Organization or for a charitable purpose.

If refusal of an unanticipated honour, decoration, favour or gift from a Government would cause embarrassment to the Organization, the staff member may receive it on behalf of the Organization and then report and entrust it to the Secretary General, who will either retain it for the Organization or arrange for its disposal for the benefit of the Organization or for a charitable purpose.

In Maryland v. Craig, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state apos s interest in the physical and psychological well being of child abuse victims may be sufficiently important to outweigh a defendant apos s right to face to face confrontation, since the states have a compelling interest in protecting minor victims of sex crimes from further trauma and embarrassment.

As I argue in my recent book Mind, Modernity, Madness, the reason for high concentrations of severe mental illness in the developed West lies in the very nature of Western societies. The virus of depression and schizophrenia, including their milder forms, is cultural in origin the embarrassment of choices that these societies offer in terms of self definition and personal identity leaves many of their members disoriented and adrift.