Sentence examples for embarrassing debate from inspiring English sources

He had a great resume and a fairly solid conservative record, but was found lacking after a series of embarrassing debate performances.

Mr. Bopp's resolution faces serious opposition here and it is not clear that it will make it to the floor on Friday for a final debate; opponents are trying to head off what could be an embarrassing debate.

Various theories have been put forward for Perry's embarrassing debate performances — back pain, not enough sleep — but by now we've seen enough to know that Perry is simply inarticulate, has trouble making arguments, and is lost once the conversation turns to issues outside of the ones he mastered as governor of Texas.

Ramping up his effort to recover from his embarrassing debate performance on Wednesday, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas purchased nearly $1 million in advertising time on Fox News Channel, an extraordinary commitment of resources intended to jolt his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination back on track.

However, the average in the past three decades has been just 22 days.Opposition leaders claimed Mr Harper's real reason was to end an embarrassing debate on the government's apparent complicity in the torture of Afghan detainees, and in particular to avoid complying with a parliamentary motion to hand over all documents relevant to those charges.

In announcing the cancellation, the Israelis avoided what could have been an embarrassing debate on the floor of the House of Representatives today, where the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Representative Sonny Callahan, Republican of Alabama, was preparing to bring up an amendment holding back $250 million in assistance to Israel.

However, embarrassing as the debate may be, it is not expected to lead to the imminent disintegration of the coalition.

So far, he's avoided any further embarrassing moments — though his debate problems have tended to come after the first hour has gone.

Adam Holloway, a member of the ruling Conservative Party, described the debate as "embarrassing" for Britain and suggested that it ran counter to the ideals of free speech to even suggest barring Trump for his comments.

STV's success in landing the first debate embarrassed BBC executives, who had been in protracted but unproductive talks as both sides wrangled over the timing, location and date of the event.

But what about economic freedom?In this section The flight of the renminbi Old profession, new debate Embarrassed meritocrats ReprintsThe advance of free markets and private property is monitored by the Economic Freedom of the World index, which Friedman helped to devise with the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank.