Sentence examples for prevent embarrassing from inspiring English sources
Brigadier general Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor for the military commissions, said on Sunday that the security precautions are necessary to prevent the release information that could harm US intelligence operations or personnel around the world, and not to prevent embarrassing the government or to cover up wrongdoing.
He compared the phrase to the salutation "How are you?" and the phrase "had a lovely time", which are "conversational space-fillers" that help prevent embarrassing silences.
He said this was routine; opponents said it was to prevent embarrassing scrutiny of the government's apparent complicity in the torture of detainees in Afghanistan.
Interviews with about a dozen key figures — including city leaders and sunshine advocates — revealed a long list of reasons for current aggravations: legal loopholes, personality conflicts, city efforts to prevent embarrassing revelations and a misunderstanding of the ordinance's scope.
F. DONALD NIXON, brother of RICHARD M. NIXON -- During Watergate, it came out that Nixon once ordered the Secret Service to wiretap his brother's telephone to prevent embarrassing business deals from surfacing during his 1972 re-election bid.
►Sharing preprints can prevent embarrassing errors from getting published, Ram says.
Or a Gestapo killing to prevent Sindelar embarrassing the Reich by fleeing abroad.
Unfortunately, he thereby created the impression that he was removing files in order to prevent further embarrassing discoveries.
On the other hand, as an occasional journalist, I hate that it can also be used by trigger-happy lawyers to prevent certain embarrassing documents entering the public domain.
That would prevent the embarrassing situation in Hawaii, where proprietary chargers installed by the bankrupt Better Place became "orphaned" because its new owners, OpConnect, couldn't find the RFID cards to run them.
The two breaches come despite the fact that the corporation introduced a training scheme in 2013 aimed at preventing such embarrassing fakery rows on natural history shows.
