Sentence examples for to avoid the embarrassing from inspiring English sources

The government is determined to avoid the embarrassing succession of defeats it suffered in the Lords over its health and welfare legislation.

The New York Times reports that Obama first embraced a policy of taking no prisoners in order to avoid the embarrassing sore of Guantánamo.

In an interview, Mr. Gilmore sounded very much like a party wheelhorse determined to avoid the embarrassing fate of Gov. John Engler, who failed to close out Mr. McCain's anti-establishment challenge in Michigan and secure the front-runner's field for Mr. Bush.

And clearly the Nobel committee, in deciding to give the award to an organization or institution for the second year in a row, is eager to avoid the embarrassing episodes that have arisen in recent years when it has given the peace prize to individuals who have proven to be a tad less peaceful than one might have hoped.

Try to avoid the embarrassing ones.

Parsons wanted to avoid the kind of proxy fight that embarrassed Michael Eisner and the board of Walt Disney.

To avoid embarrassing the librarian, the queen fumblingly borrows a volume by Ivy Compton-Burnett.

This resulted in Church agreeing to temporarily delay the introduction of the bill to avoid embarrassing the administration.

But the Americans seem keen to avoid embarrassing the Japanese, or suggesting that the United States is running the show.

The part played by the brigade was not great and, to avoid embarrassing the earl, it was not mentioned in the official account of the battle forwarded to London.

The prosecution abandoned the case, apparently to avoid embarrassing the intelligence services.