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He could have told him that he was embarrassing him and all Republicans for blindsiding him.
Jubilant children can now go to their chosen schools after education chiefs admitted an embarrassing gaffe.
She narrowly avoided an embarrassing face-plant as she misstepped on to the stage during her introduction.
The fact that it is lacking in the world where it should penetrate the unbelieving, is embarrassing.
The president combatively showed himself unchastened by the Senate's embarrassing rejection of his first choice.
In an embarrassing blunder, it was mistakenly sent to the home of an elderly Swindon woman who shared the same name as the child's grandmother.
Peta's meetings with strangers are sometimes funny, occasionally ridiculous or excruciatingly embarrassing.
The most common embarrassing mistake that gets posted to this forum involves dashing off a cocksurely scathing castigation.
It would be embarrassing to look back and realise that I had put my idiotic thoughts up in a public place.
I opened my mouth then closed it again, not able to come up with an answer without embarrassing myself.
It's a bog-standard question for an interview, but he looks at me as if I've asked something slightly embarrassing.
To resolve the embarrassing issue, the two competitors were officially timed at 55.2 seconds.
Good news travels fast, bad news travels faster, and embarrassing news travels at warp speed.
Since we already have an embarrassing number of unexplained phenomena, no one seems to have had time for this one yet.
Sometimes she was tempted to muzzle her sister so that she couldn't say or do anything embarrassing, especially in school like this.
The discovery of files by North Yorkshire Police has led to the embarrassing climbdown.
The movie's so precious, so obviously delighted by its paint-by-numbers quirkiness, it's actually embarrassing to watch.
The incident is the latest in a string of embarrassing security gaffes to affect the software giant.
Last night the council was forced into an embarrassing climbdown after it admitted it had mistakenly told people there would be no charge.
I think the station is amateurish, playing embarrassing music and is unlistenable.
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Trying to deal with the embarrassing situation, the reporter had to pause the camera, comfort him and patiently tell him what he needed to say.
When you think about it, crushing on a goofy cartoon kid was ten times less embarrassing than having wet dreams about this guy.
Is it just me or does anyone else find the spontaneous adulation and standing ovation before he's begun slightly embarrassing?
He is an excellent patsy to take on the role, as he has Alzheimer's and can't be asked any embarrassing questions.
Not only were some of them plain uncomfortable, but a few were just downright embarrassing!
It brought an embarrassing public conclusion to a failed bid for status advancement.
I would have thought it might be more embarrassing to have a rash of your mistakes put on display for everyone to see.
The few truly affecting moments are overwhelmed by the embarrassing cheese.
This year, angry motorists forced Westminster into an embarrassing U-turn over parking on New Year's Day.
I could start trying to entrap him now, through a long, excruciating, and possibly embarrassing process.
Isn't it embarrassing to be in a restaurant where a patron is yelling at the waiter?
By doctoring themselves, women would be spared the need to reveal embarrassing details to a doctor.
While embarrassing moments are unavoidable and nothing to be ashamed about, dishonest, vicious or sleazy behavior is well within your control.
I'd heard that it was agonisingly painful, but I just found it uncomfortable and embarrassing.
It's really embarrassing, and I'm afraid my girlfriend will dump me if I keep this up.
Certainly the petty political squabbles could prove embarrassing if extensively reported on.
Although uncomfortable and embarrassing, it is not normally a serious condition.
Let us not delight in making others squirm by humiliating or embarrassing them in public.
Slater actually does viewers a disservice by being less than embarrassing here.
The rebel leaders, as a result, have sent their embarrassing child-soldiers back across the border into Liberia.
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We attempted a team cheer, but the effort was half-hearted and just embarrassing.
Their implications would be only an embarrassing distraction, oddly disjoined from the prevailing paths of technical investigation.
Stand-alone mothers have a habit of dominating their histories with dramatic inventions and embarrassing half-truths, so the truth was cloudy.
The steroid scandal is embarrassing baseball and its fans, leaving some players' achievements and their records very much in doubt.
I am disgusted that anyone gave permission for that embarrassing advertisement.
He is a past master at this, taking delight in embarrassing his rivals on the road.
In an embarrassing clanger, it seems they massively misjudged the scale of the fine they would receive.
And of course we should continue to take these awful, embarrassing and harmless photos.
She has been making hay from embarrassing her parents for 20 years while alternately cashing in on their names.
The public onsen can sometimes be an embarrassing experience for overseas visitors.
Don't argue with them, swift-boat them. Find some embarrassing quote from an old interview.
By embarrassing the Vice-President you are a heartbeat away from providing aid and comfort to our enemies.
It was embarrassing, what with a gathering crowd of sailors looking on, catcalling.
My cheeks prickled with heat at the embarrassing circumstances we were caught in.
Their holidays were shattered daily with embarrassing, and potentially fatal, headlines and disclosures.
On March 18, the Allies suffered a chronically embarrassing naval disaster.
You fall on some passenger and you get all tangled up, and it's horribly embarrassing.
As someone with a surfeit of embarrassing '80s hairstyle photo evidence I am all in favour of today's youth facing similar consequences.
It was embarrassing for us. We didn't know where to look. All the family were getting really frustrated that she hadn't shown up.
Being caught in the middle of someone else's family argument is hideous and embarrassing.
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She'll be posting photos of her family's hideously embarrassing lawn furniture.
The overspill of rain water in winter is a danger to pedestrians, quite apart from the embarrassing appearance.
I've started a post for this thread two or three times, and what I've written always looks trite, cheesy or embarrassing.
The Conservative MP scored an embarrassing own goal yesterday as he tried to put a string of damaging headlines behind him.
A deeper read, however, suggests something more complicated, a pattern of embarrassing defeats and hollow victories.
The embarrassing truth is that the book needed much more editorial care and honest-to-God desk editing.
Taxi is an embarrassing formula picture that is full of miscalculations and cynically milks previous material.
They still love to rehash all of the embarrassing moments on various trips that the group has taken throughout the years.
It should be wicked, wanton and lewd, dirty to the point where it is embarrassing to look at one another in the morning.
The scoreline itself tells the full story of an embarrassing and humiliating defeat for Waterford footballers in Ballinascreen.
Declarations of love and lustful interest can often be both amusing and embarrassing simultaneously.
Next day, the show opens, with many speeches and compliments, and a dinner of faintly embarrassing lavishness.
And discovery in the case could still prove very embarrassing for him, as well as hurtful to his wife and children.
To be honest it felt embarrassing that I'd never given thought to the fact of his residency.
I imagine it is very embarrassing for them to be found out for being so secretive.
He sometimes wet the bed too, which was kind of embarrassing for a twelve-year old.
It's always slightly embarrassing for anyone to talk about the meaning of life, especially if you're a philosopher.
It is sad that such eminent judges who found themselves in some embarrassing situation had to resort to such tactics.
Bringing those responsible for these criminal acts to justice, however senior they may be, will be embarrassing.
Besides, the interest which her question had undoubtedly aroused amongst the bystanders was, to say the least of it, embarrassing.
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The smartly dressed may glance down furtively to check whether there is an embarrassing gap in their clothing.
We will never know, since pollsters, like trial lawyers, always avoid questions whose answers might prove embarrassing or unforeseen.
As Navajo is a tone language, an error in tone or vowel length can be embarrassing to the listener.
Fortunately he didn't turn up, or we might have suffered an embarrassing reverse, as he's probably stronger than us.
No angry parents or humiliating, embarrassing friends or disappointed, crushed twin sister.
Docherty was flattered and received florid correspondence praising his talents, something that most Scots might find cringingly embarrassing.
Obviously there have been, and will be, apologists who want to defend or explain away the embarrassing elements.
Not only is this an embarrassing problem for you but it is also a potentially dangerous one.
Eric looked lingeringly at her as they danced, without saying a single embarrassing word about her appearance.
People slate her as if she has committed a crime against humanity, it's embarrassing.
Luckily a face saving penalty shoot out loss 5-4 buried what could have been an embarrassing epitaph of the state of Dutch footy.
Just changing staff rosters caused the airline to suffer some embarrassing and well-publicised delays over the summer.
That was extremely embarrassing for someone who does cognitive science and linguistics.
I was once on a crowded Muni bus, wherein someone made a loud, rude, and embarrassing sound.
After much careful rumination, I have decided to make public a rather embarrassing matter about myself.
I got a tad splashed which could've been embarrassing as I was wearing white trousers!
Thieving to the benefit of Labour is OK, but just a bit embarrassing right now, so taihoa, bro.
That was very embarrassing for Dr Cullen, because he knows that in actual fact we are going backwards.
They stand out a mile, and their final act of defiance is appallingly preposterous and embarrassing.
It would have been far too embarrassing for my father to allow the truth into the history.
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After a few such trips, I became bolder, and I got myself into quite a few awkward or embarrassing situations as a result.
Initially, there was a much longer post here, full of no doubt very embarrassing similes and attempts at flowery poetic language.
It was becoming increasingly embarrassing for Cork at this stage and a total collapse was on the cards.
But a minister whose policy is unpopular with some of his own backbenchers may find opposition support embarrassing.
They have flopped in the majors and their performance in Atlanta was particularly embarrassing.
All the same, it's rather embarrassing when I score lower than a technophobe when trying to figure out how to use a simple machine.
It was a dramatic and embarrassing backdown for the Defence Department Secretary.
Labor says the Prime Minister's been forced into an embarrassing backdown, labelling it a victory for commonsense.
He chews the scenery and then washes it all down with an embarrassing hammed-up performance not even worthy of discussion.
It is also embarrassing for a team of our stature to go home without a victory.
And at the end of the day an embarrassing 146 run defeat just about told its own story.
The company will be at pains not to let this type of embarrassing schoolboy error happen again.
Their punishing tactics were too much for Wigan whose schoolboy errors were embarrassing considering the magnitude of the occasion.
No subject is taboo, and there is no subject so gross, so obnoxious, so embarrassing, it cannot be paraded in front of everyone.
I for one will not be there to witness embarrassing scorelines on a regular basis.
I knew I looked like a complete greenhorn in front of him, and it was slightly embarrassing.
As to Lu's performance, so much of what she has both done and said recently has been embarrassing balderdash.
During that time, he endured a series of scrapes, some deeply embarrassing, before the fall-out from an affair finally cost him the arts brief.
For a brief moment, considering the embarrassing circumstances, I was pleased with my poised response.
One can only urge purveyors of such nonsense to stop embarrassing themselves.
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The reaction of the some of the domestic punditocracy is almost as embarrassing as the abuse itself.
The Buccaneers bandwagon is smoldering after an embarrassing loss in San Francisco.
Indeed, the triggering event was an embarrassing error, which precipitated a scandal of regal proportions.
Again, all my mates have read it and I haven't, which can lead to an embarrassing conversational hiatus in the pub.
Depression is seen by many as something shameful or embarrassing, and it's very easy to internalize that attitude.
It can get embarrassing, and, quite genuinely may be of limited interest to persons of different constitution to the teller.
If something embarrassing or exciting happens, the film presents it in a matter-of-fact, straightforward way.
In international football Germany prepare for Euro 2004 with an embarrassing 5-1 thrashing by Romania.
For the majority of young people, a propensity to blush is a natural, if embarrassing, aspect of adolescence.
None of which was quite as embarrassing as what caused a halt to play on Court Three midway through the second week.
Yet, I don't want to throw myself at him and be rejected and make the rest of the night painfully embarrassing for both of us.
Her cheeks reddened at the embarrassing confession and she paused for a few moments.
My mother distrusted the parenting abilities of all my friends' parents to the point where it was embarrassing.
The deletions went beyond the typical commercially sensitive information, to embarrassing findings that the company didn't want released.
When the BC bud was traded for American cocaine, said elements sold the coke and were left with an embarrassing whack of cash.
Frankly, I found his profuse apologies and repeated bowing a bit embarrassing.
An embarrassing four-year period of media deference to the president and his policies has ended.
He can placate all those prying legislators who keep embarrassing MLB with hearings on Capitol Hill.
A Priapic episode is both a painful and embarrassing condition, made all the worse by current social stigmas against its sufferers.
Why have we allowed this embarrassing beggarliness to become an annual ritual?
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If you drink alone in the daytime then you don't have to worry about embarrassing yourself in front of other people.
Among these problems was an embarrassing belly landing when the pilots simply forgot to lower the landing gear!
This is embarrassing for New Labour, still seen as an urban movement governing for city and townsfolk.
I did not fall or lose my balance or anything else embarrassing, but I was annoyed.
After embarrassing attempts at kicking with all my might, I was rescued by one of the super-experienced instructors.
I guess I fancied her a bit back in the 1980s, but now she looks like someone's embarrassing mother.
When I'm overly stressed I get patches of psoriasis on my scalp, which is embarrassing as it can sometimes give me a dandruffy look in places.
Daytime television, when not featuring soap operas or game shows, is about embarrassing yourself and your family and friends in public.
It is worth embarrassing the accuser, to avoid the risk of a wrongful conviction and possibly spare an innocent defendant years in prison.
As he strolls confidently into the room, he tells everyone not to move, making the first of his embarrassing dad jokes.
Is it possible that she really intends to defend the ridiculously tragic misadventures of our embarrassing Commander in Chief?
It is a sad and embarrassing moment as the valuable and custom-cut marble stands misshapen.
The level of triumphalism and belligerence churned out by our columnists has been embarrassing to behold.
The Manchester-based magazine's stance follows a series of embarrassing fights, shouting matches and unruly behaviour at several events.
There are plenty of new, better-than-ever concealers to hide everything from embarrassing blemishes to undereye circles.
Duncan Fletcher, England's coach, has called for calm after England's embarrassing drubbings in the last two NatWest Series matches.
As in all such debates, the principal goal is to avoid a gaffe which will make embarrassing headlines the next morning.
The more polite inflictor of this mildly embarrassing situation will usually hastily strafe away in a breakneck fashion.
She may be a loving wife and mother but her matronly style of floral shirts and mom jeans is embarrassing her family.
The customary number with children from the audience goes without gush or embarrassing coyness.
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His reluctance to be leader combined with his recent rather embarrassing gaffes has, however, compelled me to examine the alternatives.
Several embarrassing montages seem directed by the domineering pop soundtrack due to their literalist take on the lyrics.
Suburbia may not be as exciting as the silver screen, but it's infinitely less embarrassing.
Just weeks ago, I considered marriage education a faintly embarrassing process.
This fake show of emotion is embarrassing and entirely unjustified.
She's worried about embarrassing herself in front of such a large audience.
Everyone, of course, was too polite to inquire about the embarrassing number of absentees.
The messages have proved embarrassing to barney as she continues an ongoing custody battle.
It was particularly embarrassing in the light of the Italian's walloping of the Scots, with arguably less of a rugby-playing population than we have here.
But his many piercing performances provide a counterpoint to his embarrassing legal troubles.
Beyond the yah-boo of suit and countersuit, both cases could prove embarrassing for the United States.
Once again, our resident agony aunt answers your questions on those embarrassing personal problems that can only be solved by having them published in the national press.
It's less embarrassing all around, and not many men want it to be recorded in the courts that they have been cuckolded.
This denial was an embarrassing rebuff for the Australian government.
The current '80s crop of cartoon favorites, sitcom has-beens, embarrassing pop relics, and fashion offenses takes what was essentially kitsch to begin with and parodies it.
I want to get the entire site to the point where I don't feel compelled to redo it ever again, and where what I'd done is not completely embarrassing.
The statistics are difficult to assess as allotting causes of various types of collapse to overwork is medically controversial and often socially embarrassing.
Just as she was getting the hang of this monarchy lark, along comes another embarrassing chain of events to sink its teeth into the royal posterior.
That resulted in two stomach pumpings in the same week, and a more unfortunate and embarrassing incident of severe diarrhoea after swallowing 16 laxative pills.
The crowds booed and jeered as the embarrassing scene played out in front of them.
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And with that great hope and excitement comes crippling, embarrassing disappointment.
But until voters demand it, politicians will continue to ignore an embarrassing system.
It is a work of embarrassing, even repulsive power that rivets your eyes.
The motor made such a row that it became incredibly embarrassing.
Just taihoa with the embarrassing stories and we will get on just fine.
I'd like to encourage some interactivity in this blog, so if anyone would like to email me with their awkward or embarrassing moments, I can post them here anonymously.
I notice that your decision to send your son to a private school is embarrassing you, making a mockery of what you've said in the past about education.
Most embarrassing of all is the specter of people asking in the name of religion for permission to discriminate.
I'm pretty excited about embarrassing myself on a school night in Town.
The latest development nevertheless casts yet another French IMF leader in an embarrassing light.
While out of office, he campaigned for further reforms, including vote by ballot, household suffrage, and triennial parliaments, embarrassing the Whig ministers.
That is, maybe the information in the returns is embarrassing but no more than that, and Romney is just stringing everyone along.
This time, long-suffering conservatives endured nothing embarrassing or bizarre, insipid, or outlandish.
I glared with horror at Lucien for his crude statement, all in the meanwhile backing away from the two of them in an embarrassing attempt to hide my appalling state.
Whether it's a duck-pout 'selfie' or a picture of a pet duck, their desire to over-share every aspect of their lives can be embarrassing at times.
Work includes pastels by a mad woman from Taree, photographs by someone who really shouldn't be seen in the nude, and a guy who is so past his prime it's just embarrassing.
Some say it's a meritless attempt to suppress embarrassing information.
Anyway, she told this joke that I thought was so funny I hooted with laughter, which was quite embarrassing as the rest of the audience only tittered politely.
It does beg the question about whether its findings proved embarrassing.
That can mean rewriting wire copy to put the part most embarrassing to Democrats in the lede.
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But I have made a curious and mildly embarrassing discovery.
Few diplomatic events are more embarrassing than a summit that turns into a molehill.
In May 2010, an embarrassing audition tape surfaced online that Klein had shot years earlier for mamma Mia!
What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid.
It has made me dig out my old diary from 1985-6 which is full of embarrassing, poorly crafted rubbish and shows me up to be the young idiot that I suspected I must have been.
As my mom drove me home, after an embarrassing shower of kisses at the bus station, she chattered on and on about how boring her life was without me.
When he and his associates make a very embarrassing mistake in their sifting of the facts, it drives a wedge between them and the people they're trying to help.
I wish everyone would calm down so I can try and catch up with what's going on and correct some of the thousands of embarrassing typos I'm certain are littering this report.
She reveals the good and the embarrassing in equal measure, but the more blushingly confessional she gets, the more candid, unrefined and gloriously nasty the record sounds.
The attacks are not only undiplomatic but are extremely embarrassing to many people including the thousands of workers employed as a result of Chinese investment here.
The site is known for unearthing legal records that shed new light, often embarrassing light, on actors, politicians, even reality show contestants.
But if I have made an embarrassing boo-boo I have to admit it.
The webcomic XKCD shows just how long it will take for anything embarrassing you do today to be forgotten by the country.
I have long held the view that A-Levels are an embarrassing anachronism, just another mechanism for separating the privileged from the unprivileged.
They have already had some narrow squeaks and some embarrassing defeats.
Should a snafu come to public attention, and there is a free press to ask embarrassing questions and point accusatory fingers, then they can see their careers end overnight.
Those punish snoops who pry into someone else's private affairs, anyone who publicly discloses embarrassing private facts, and publicity that shows someone in a false light.
She comforted herself at first with the thought that with the brawling, deafening stream between them, there would be no chance for embarrassing conversation.
Loyalty to the group requires that members not raise embarrassing questions, attack weak arguments, or counter soft-headed thinking with hard facts.
He's got me twice now and a young woman who passed me on Sunday afternoon told me that only a fortuitously placed handbag had spared her an embarrassing and painful nip.
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Now that I look back at this he might have been making fun of me for not being able to speak my own language very well, which would have been much more embarrassing.
The Tory revolutionary was so punctilious and respectful of her monarch it was almost embarrassing.
While many students take it in stride, the test raises anxieties for non-swimmers or those who fear embarrassing failure in front of their new peers.
People started to cadge invitations to see our au pair, and across the nation we British were briefly seized by the same deeply embarrassing tropical madness.
Beyond stating it's confident that no customer data was jeopardised by the hack, the company is staying schtum about the embarrassing security breach.
When you meet him, he's this very odd combination of literate Renaissance man and oafish uncle who says embarrassing things that you wish your girlfriend hadn't heard.
Everyone was desperately failing to be cool about the presence of this A list Hollywood actor, but the first few questions were obsequious and embarrassing.
This official obstruction would seem to be a clear indication that the president is worried about embarrassing details emerging that could threaten his re-election.
Until their early teens, men tend to let their mothers choose their clothes, until this becomes too embarrassing or damaging to their street credibility.
Her first zine, from which the collection takes its title, presents a young girl's most embarrassing memories, which steadily build in outlandishness.
But when he gets on to the supplementaries and does not know what the question will be or what people will ask him, then it becomes enormously embarrassing.
It was a bit embarrassing when I first went for a dip as I didn't have a swimming costume and had to wear a hand-me-down bikini from my half-sister.
Then there was the embarrassing, if unsuccessful, paternity suit stemming from an affair that he had with a former furniture store employee decades earlier.
Before the election a figure for the number of illegals was politically embarrassing because it showed that the government had lost control of our borders.
It simply threw the embarrassing document down the memory hole.
The continual whining of this small group about such a minor matter and such a small amount of money is embarrassing to the vast majority of farangs.
This has proved to be both inconvenient and embarrassing to the mayor.
Well you wouldn't want to read that book, obviously, but it's the sort of thing you need to know about in order to avoid making embarrassing faux pas.
It is such that an unfortunate circumstance or careless remark can shake feelings of love as can an embarrassing confession, comprised of three little words, reinforce it.
This is a little embarrassing, but I have a confession to make.
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Hey, 'fessing to embarrassing stuff can make for great convos.
All the compliments are very flattering, but it's kind of embarrassing!
I have a major problem of flatulence that is rather embarrassing.
Otherwise it'd be the most embarrassing thing ever, you know.
Notwithstanding those performances, Forsyth conceded he may have to do the embarrassing end-of-season forfeit for players who finish the campaign try-less.
The leader might also make up something embarrassing for the forfeiter to do such as yawn until someone else yawns or recite a silly tongue twister perfectly.
Nonetheless, it was one of the most entertaining, brutally-realistic pieces of television I've seen for a while, even if it was cringingly embarrassing.
Time and again they chose unsuspecting members of an audience and embroiled them in wacky games or ludicrous, sometimes cringingly embarrassing, situations.
With the Internet's more personal feel, using a dating service on-line may prove a little less embarrassing than the more traditional dating agencies.
It's as embarrassing as a red Cortina with go-faster stripes.
And were they to say no, it could all prove very embarrassing for Tony.
I mean, to begin with, he works in a pharmacy, which means he has to deal with other people's very embarrassing personal problems on a daily basis.
I'm a young, shy, gay male with a very embarrassing problem.
She was emboldened by having met a woman of a similar age to herself for whom this strategy had worked, but still she saw it as a big and embarrassing step.
Initially the pickets were very optimistic that the dispute could be resolved quickly in the face of the embarrassing exposure of the employer's dirty tricks.
After a series of embarrassing courtroom defeats, the Government has announced that Customs will now allow smokers to bring back up to 3,200 duty-free cigarettes per trip.
Strangely enough, this was another immediate, reflexive consensus, excepting Mr. Summers' brief but embarrassing romp off of the intellectual plantation.
Of course, not having any income or a regular job meant that I was always broke and after a while it got embarrassing to doss down at friends' pads.
It's been downright merciless, transforming a highly regarded play about four desperate lives in 1950s New York into painfully embarrassing dross.
Grey literature was responsible for several embarrassing errors in the 2007 report.
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After the embarrassing events in the previous war, English public opinion was unenthusiastic about starting a new one.
The government insisted that the embarrassing loss of the tax records was a one-off event.
Most embarrassing was the appointment of Kevin Cullis as manager by a consortium wishing to buy the club.
The final settlement was confirmed in May, and Henry was widely praised for his humility in submitting to the slightly embarrassing peace.
Oh I'm such a block head, why didn't I figure this out sooner, this is embarrassing!
But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments.
He shook his head mournfully, and frowned, as he contemplated this embarrassing gaffe of the black ewe of the family.
Aguilera also had an embarrassing moment at the Super Bowl earlier this month when she skipped a line and flubbed another one.
Year after year, there are pages of memories, filled with inside jokes, cheesy quotes and embarrassing pictures.
A series of embarrassing encounters with English visitors, or Frenchmen he had known in better days, drowned his spirit.
China's first lady PENG LIYUAN, 52, has an embarrassing make-up moment with face powder at the London Lord Mayor's banquet.
American frigates also inflicted a series of embarrassing defeats on the British navy, which was short on manpower due to the conflict in Europe.
Reagan eventually circumvented this inconvenience using a pocket veto, but the certification hearings in the interim were highly embarrassing.
Did you find it embarrassing to list all the junk food you binged on?
In honoured tradition, throw in the odd dirty joke or embarrassing anecdote.
Of course, there was a huge embarrassing wait as I gormlessly stared at a huge bowl of moules and didn't have a clue how to tackle them.
Pee-Pee Harley is a slightly socially unacceptable dog with the inconvenient and embarrassing habit of peeing on everything and everyone.
In the most memorable exchange, Gingrich turned an ex-wife's embarrassing allegation to his political advantage.
The Hernandez GIF isn't the only embarrassing photo to emerge from the Lloyd homicide investigation.
You need not worry about embarrassing yourself with overloud guffawing while watching this movie.
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For the unprepared this can make for embarrassing public outings.
During that 1988 tour, the Lions suffered two embarrassing losses in the lead up to the first test against Australia.
After these embarrassing episodes, King ended their US visit and immediately sent them home to London.
Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.
Along the way, he crosses swords with a sci-fi obsessed criminal, an embarrassing role played embarrassingly by Gibson.
Altaf Hussain said that MQM's vote bank is increasing and that the criticizers will face embarrassing defeat.
One Chicagoan had an embarrassing moment when he was busted-picking his nose at a traffic light by a school bus full of children.
Unfortunately, as anybody who has thick, yellow toenails knows quite well, it can be embarrassing to wear open-toed shoes.
Miller and her executive producer, Chris Lavoie, grab the most embarrassing soundbites from Fox and play them for all to hear.
He rattles out a few topical jokes and then smarms over his guests like an embarrassing uncle at a wedding.
Yes, it would have been embarrassing, but a free press requires it.
It's embarrassing when I remember how much nonsense I gibbered at you on our first date.
It is symbiotic, exploitative, audacious, and, at times, embarrassing.
The fact that late developers emerged, ripe for grammar school education, having 'failed' the eleven plus test, was embarrassing.
The crush may be embarrassing to the crushee, but it was found to be such far less frequently than not.
Although there are glasses to help those with this condition, called bioptic telescopes, they're bulky and can be a bit embarrassing.
It would only have been embarrassing had her bottom been lardy and speckled with cellulite.
Vesely showed signs of nerves as he took two free throws, missing both attempts and putting up an embarrassing airball on the first.
Windingly embarrassing, it's like David Brent's dance in The Office but covered in Lycra.
In this case, the embarrassing stumble may have bettered her score.

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