The incoming Barclays CEO, Antony Jenkins, has signalled he does not want his bank to be in socially useless or reputation-threatening lines of investment banking, but it took a shattering sequence of debacle, fines and embarrassments to convert the board to his cause.
Coleman will not be blaming the pitch should things go dramatically wrong on the night and Wales suffer one of the biggest embarrassments in world football.
Enormous political embarrassments for the right.
But even when oil production is at its peak, Chad will still get more money from foreign aid than from selling oil, so the donors' feelings are important.There are also a couple of local embarrassments.
Canberra faced some equally unpredictable embarrassments: the train bringing Australia's dignitaries there from Melbourne for the city's ground-breaking ceremony caught fire, putting construction behind schedule before it could officially begin.The next problem for these star-crossed places is who, if anyone, will want to live there.
Those in suites your correspondent has visited on business are being treated as embarrassments, but the press is not always present.
There are arguments for this, but going cap in hand does not lie easily with throwing weight about.Quite apart from these embarrassments, the Security Council is in a poor way, knowing that it should long ago have reformed itself but being quite unable to do so.
He has shaken off other embarrassments, such as recent revelations of government contracts awarded to his brother.
This process might have been a good idea helping to rebut the charge that the party had few policies if it hadn't been for the backtracking and arithmetical embarrassments it has entailed.
This has nothing to do with the embarrassments he talks about with unflinching and abnormal honesty collapsing drunk through the screen door of a girlfriend's house, or dating a stripper called "Marie the Flame of Florida".
After an autumn of government embarrassments and a winter of economic gloom, the Tories seemed stubbornly stuck with only a modest poll lead over lumpen Labour.
