Sentence examples for ongoing embarrassment from inspiring English sources

It is that, like the ongoing embarrassment over Northern Rock (which is partly to be blamed on the regulatory system Mr Brown designed), it has reminded the public of Labour's chequered record, and of Mr Brown's role in it.

Amid ongoing embarrassment for the coalition over the surprise budget announcement of changes to VAT on hot takeway food – dubbed the "pasty tax" – Greggs' chief executive, Ken McMeikan, said the chain was inviting its 6 million customers to sign petitions at its 1,600 UK shops from Friday.

The revelations of the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, are an ongoing embarrassment for the US government.

Their ongoing embarrassment when new techniques emerge that cannot be placed inside, or outside, their nonsensical rickety fence, is not surprising (Tagliabue 2015).

Threats and harassment of Sarkeesian and other social justice warriors (SJWs) had been an ongoing embarrassment that sane gamers tried to distance themselves from.

According to his lawsuit, he "experienced ongoing stress and embarrassment occasioned by his presence at home, rather than at school, and the questions that this situation generated on an almost daily basis.… His self-esteem had been demolished".

Executives at the Nasdaq stock exchange also expressed their embarrassment at ongoing technical problems.

The ongoing scandal is an embarrassment for the EU, which regards the scheme as a key tool in the climate change strategy it is trying to encourage other countries to adopt.

Critics say Charest called the snap vote to avoid any embarrassment from an ongoing corruption inquiry into the province's construction industry.

Based on research on empathy for pain and basic emotions we hypothesized that vicarious embarrassment would result in stronger activations in the anterior insula and the ACC as neural indicators for the ongoing empathic process [13], [17].

Resentment.... Embarrassment.