Sentence examples for embarrassing research from inspiring English sources

I don't know if that's impressive or embarrassing – research reported in today's Times suggests that the British public regards £278 as a generous donation – but it's hardly big-time philanthropy.

He said that he had been inspired by Robert Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, and the influence is evident: Crick's book, which was published in 1995, is a similar model of arduous research and embarrassing revelation.

Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace, said: "It looks as if burying decades' worth of energy research is too embarrassing a policy for BP's boss to defend, even in front of his own shareholders.

California's stem cell research institute received embarrassing news this week: The leading candidate to replace Robert Klein as chair of the board had to be disqualified because he's not a U.S. citizen.

If you know in advance that you will be spending time with someone of an unfamiliar background, it is a good idea to do more in-depth research to avoid embarrassing faux pas.

An article in China Youth Daily, reprinted by the state news agency Xinhua, called the outflow of research to foreign journals "embarrassing".

And research even shows that embarrassing yourself makes people like and trust you more -- you become a real person.[3] Makes sense, doesn't it?

These "Swede-taunting" exercises (as Booth calls them) are carried out in the name of research, but they are pretty embarrassing.

It would be embarrassing enough for Wall Street firms that so many of its star research analysts could have been so wrong.

The release of brokerage firm e-mail messages by various regulators examining Wall Street research has embarrassed Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and Credit Suisse First Boston in recent months.

"Fox is the most likely to do stories embarrassing to Al Gore," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, a conservative media research center.