Sentence examples for term embarrassment from inspiring English sources

In the present study, we use the term embarrassment as this general term, unless otherwise specified.

It's an interesting term, embarrassment (Interviewer)." " That I don't have the vocabulary and I haven't got the medical vocabulary.

The report may cause short-term embarrassment and provoke difficult questions.

It has caused us intense embarrassment, but we'd rather have short-term embarrassment and protect the sport.

But the rebels calculate that short-term embarrassment is preferable to electoral obliteration.On September 16th David Cairns, a minister in the Scottish office, resigned, citing doubts about Mr Brown's leadership.

They seemed to be saying, 'Thank you for taking the risk of short-term embarrassment for the sake of correcting this.' " Creating these new rules was absolutely the right move for The Times.

Here, I can hope to escape such long-term embarrassment by claiming that the thoughts I am about to set down are transitory, impressionistic and I may contradict them next week.

The jury may still be out on the likely after-effects for Cabal Communications following their decision to bear all on BBC2's Trouble Between The Covers, which ended on Monday, but past docusoap "victims" insist that longer-term benefits far outweigh any short-term embarrassment.

Also a vice president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, Coe is urging his sport to embrace testing, saying the Balco scandals in the United States "will not be the last scandal, but we are better to face short-term embarrassment".

Toronto sports columnists and some Leafs fans discussed the incident in terms of embarrassment and disgrace, but many fans and commentators said Tlusty had nothing to apologize for.

Psychologists say that in the long run, the practice may buttress children's self-esteem, but it can also cause short-term stress, embarrassment and psychological and practical difficulties.