Sentence examples for embarrassing conflicts from inspiring English sources

These courts could not perform their respective functions without embarrassing conflicts unless rules were adopted to avoid them.

His point is that humans can't seem to help spilling unwitting clues all over the place about the mess of embarrassing conflicts and desires lodged within.

Even as he has vowed to hold himself to the highest ethical standards, his confidence in his own integrity has sometimes seemed to blind him to potentially embarrassing conflicts of interest.

Records from its files show that it was alerted by its advisers in December 2000 about the serious and potentially embarrassing conflicts inherent in one of a web of private partnerships set up by Enron's chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow.

Episodes of drunkenness led to interpersonal conflicts or "embarrassing" behavior that can damage social relationships, lowering social standing and jeopardizing social capital.

Both sides at times described the conflict as embarrassing — to see churches spending so much money on lawyers instead of on the needy.

Even so, it grates that senior officials so rarely seem embarrassed by apparent conflicts of interest.

Sagna is likely to feature in France's two World Cup warm-up matches against Paraguay on Sunday and Jamaica the following week, and will hope that their campaign in Brazil will be a much improved showing than their experience in South Africa in 2010, when defeat to the hosts in the group stages was followed by mass internal conflict and an embarrassing early exit.

The city's inability to settle the Church Avenue conflict has been politically embarrassing for Mr. Dinkins.

Maybe you're a couple where talking about difficult things feels embarrassing or likely to end in conflict.

We would embarrass ourselves to create conflicts because the jig's up.