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Embarrassment in sentence

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As far as trade is concerned, the current US presidential campaign is an embarrassment of substance, not just of personality.
Why is it that share prices did well in America and Europe, while falling in Asia to the embarrassment of investment managers who pumped tens of billions of dollars unprofitably into Asia, while reducing their US holdings?
Avoiding embarrassment may at times be in the national interest, but it can also protect the careers of politicians and bureaucrats.
These changes are likely to outlast US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s embarrassment.
And Putin himself has become an insufferably vulgar embarrassment.
American journalists also know that the government classifies information mostly to spare it embarrassment, or for expediency, rather than because it has genuine national-security concerns.
A president may lie to cover his tracks, avoid embarrassment, harm a rival, or for convenience.
He caused further diplomatic embarrassment, when he falsely accused France of selling two Mistral-class assault ships to Egypt, in order to deliver them to Russia, in contravention of international sanctions.
The Chinese regime could have withstood such embarrassment, just as it could have survived an international uproar.
In 2012, for example, he played a key role in helping the world-famous blind activist Chen Guangcheng escape from house arrest – a major international embarrassment for China.
Yahoo! and a number of other companies – including Google – are already working on a standard for displaying information about the advertisements a user sees: Yahoo!’s edge is that it can show this information without embarrassment.
Assuming that Assad is not completely irrational, the relatively minor military gains from gassing some of the rebels (but also civilians) would be heavily outweighed by the probable effect on international opinion, embarrassment for his Russian allies, and the danger of provoking an American response.
These states, unlike the supply-side embarrassment that Kansas has become, are clearly doing something right.
Faced with the embarrassment of his pastor’s views on race and on America, Obama did not go into a huddle with spin-doctors to fathom how he should deal with the problem.
That retraction appears to be causing as much embarrassment – and diplomatic vitriol – in Japan and South Korea today as the original series did.
His presence is an embarrassment to NATO, but an even greater disgrace for Russia.
As soon it was known that he had an intimate relationship with a former fashion model, he decided to marry her, avoiding any further embarrassment.
Italy, to cite just one example, is a bureaucratic embarrassment where it takes 4 months for an entrepreneur to set up a business.
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.
In fact, Poland’s government has set the country up for even more international embarrassment.
But, whatever embarrassment he may now be feeling is certainly a better fate than that meted out to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, another Russian oligarch with political ambitions, who is now languishing in his eighth year of imprisonment since boldly challenging Vladimir Putin’s ideas about how Russia should be run.
It is a huge embarrassment for US President Barack Obama that he proposed – admittedly under pressure from the Republican opposition – to expand offshore oil drilling greatly just before the BP catastrophe struck.
But they do so mostly out of embarrassment and a sense of guilt, and the changes can be entirely cosmetic.
One question is why Bush and Cheney set themselves up for this embarrassment.
WikiLeaky PowerPARIS – Beyond the headlines, the embarrassment of governments, and the blow dealt to the secrecy of diplomatic correspondence, WikiLeaks’ exposure of US diplomatic cables offers a raw illustration of how deeply the essence of power has been altered in our information age.
That would have the advantage of avoiding embarrassment for those who do not wish to reveal their weight.
In the end, Chancellor Schroder was given a fig leaf to hide his embarrassment in the form of the present managing director, Horst Kohler, whose main qualification for the job is being German, unlike his two predecessors De Larosiere and Camdessus, who were distinguished French inspecteusr de finances, i.e. they belonged to the cream of cream in the bureaucratic elite of France.
Make no mistake: policymakers’ track record on forecasting Greek economic performance during the crisis has been an embarrassment.
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.
In the interest of security, both leaders tried to pander to Trump’s “stable genius” over the last three years, with little to show for it but domestic political embarrassment.
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