• Although China has declined to comment on the content of the reports, it will no doubt be embarrassed by many of the revelations.

    BBC: Rare insight into secretive China-N Korea ties

  • It just goes to show if it can happen to me it can happen to anybody, it's nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about.

    BBC: Calzaghe backs anti-bullying work

  • Asian readers will not be shocked by what Megha Bahree describes, although they may be embarrassed by how far parts of the region still have to come in the development process.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • I'm embarrassed for the legacy of the Nobel Prizes, I'm embarrassed for my country, and, if I were Al Gore, I'd be embarrassed to stand in front of the world claiming to be a worthy, legitimate recipient of the peace prize.

    CNN: readers sound off on Gore, Nobel Peace Prize

  • Most of us are embarrassed to be caught in the act.

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  • Just like John McCain talked away his Keating Five scandal and Bill Clinton talked away his Monica Scandal, it is possible to make reporters so sick of the subject they will be embarrassed to bring it up again.

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  • That seems fitting enough, but we also get panel discussions in TV studios, video feeds, and a genuine British news anchor declaiming iambic pentameters as if from an autocue all a trifle forced, as if Fiennes were concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play.

    NEWYORKER: Loyalty Oaths

  • You should be embarrassed by it, as it has lost you the respect of many professional working women.

    FORBES: Readers Say

  • To make this thing public after all of that expense and effort, I would be embarrassed as a prosecutor to bring it.

    CNN: Sen. Ernest Hollings' closed-door impeachment statement

  • In Obama's defense, it should be noted that at least he worries about being embarrassed by the failure of his Iran policy.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The rigged game

  • Canon, Xerox, Lexmark, Hewlett Packard and their ilk should be embarrassed, because their printer units are the used car sales lots of the computing world.

    FORBES: Why Do Printers Still Suck?

  • In a front page story this morning, the New York Times reporter (and Forbes alum) Nicole Perlroth writing a length story detailing how people are now totally embarrassed to be using their Research In Motion BlackBerry phones in front of other people.

    FORBES: RIM: N.Y. Times Says People Ashamed To Use BlackBerries

  • An embarrassed Mr Motlanthe protested, only to be assured that the detention of one of the MDC's most prominent politicians, who had been due to be sworn in as the deputy agriculture minister, had taken place without his host's knowledge and that orders had been given for his release.

    ECONOMIST: Will Morgan Tsvangirai wield real power? Not yet, it seems

  • But I would be embarrassed if we don't at least make the UK Sport target of 10 to 15 medals.

    BBC: European Athletics 2010: Ennis aims to lead GB charge

  • "The reason for the inquiry is that, frankly, the organization was embarrassed and its credibility was hurt by what appears to be a mishandling of this event, " U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.

    CNN: U.N. to probe handling of Lebanon video

  • As a matter of common sense, the IGC proposed a neutral, independent background review process for new candidates for senior office to reduce the chance that the organization would be embarrassed by inadvertent association with felons and miscreants and to explore possible conflicts of interest.

    FORBES: FIFA's Rotten Reform Record

  • Mr Dennington said he was aware of several councillors who needed the allowance but who would be "embarrassed" to have to say so.

    BBC: Brewhouse Theatre

  • What I would advise is having different passwords for sites you do financial transactions on (banking, Amazon, eBay, Paypal), have sensitive information on (Facebook), could be embarrassed by if compromised (LinkedIn, Twitter), and then a cycle of passwords you use for every other blog or news site you comment on.

    FORBES: Discussing Gawker's Breach With Founder Nick Denton

  • Since Nazi-style anti- Semitism went out of fashion with the defeat of Germany, the human-rights visionaries believed that people would be embarrassed into putting the hatred aside.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Competing visions of "Never Again"

  • One skill which could be improved is spelling: I imagine Cheryl Gillan will be rather embarrassed to see the way civil servants have chosen to spell the job title of her principal private secretary.

    BBC: Wales Office: you don't have to be sad to work here..

  • Wine from Australia, Chile and Argentina was mostly bottom-of-the-barrel, cut-rate stuff you'd be embarrassed to order on a first date.

    FORBES: Back to the Future

  • And perceived drawback of telephone counselling - lack of face-to-face time - actually turns out to be one of its greatest strengths as one in six people say they're too embarrassed to talk face-to-face about their difficulties.

    BBC: It's good to talk - therapy not pills for depression

  • And Brazilians will be embarrassed to reflect that the shocking conditions in Carandiru's Pavilion Five, and in thousands of prisons and police lockups across the country, are a nasty stain on the country's otherwise strengthening democratic credentials.

    ECONOMIST: In the house of horror

  • And how makers of big cars and trucks will ever be able to convince drivers to feel anything but embarrassed about a vehicle that gets four miles per gallon is among their biggest challenges.

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  • Similarly, a fund-management house could be embarrassed if shares in its long-only, retail business were being torpedoed by hedge funds shorting them on behalf of the fund firm's rich customers.

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  • Yes, I took a calculated risk that I could be embarrassed and turned away by the Saks buyer, and yes, reaching for the ultimate, the buying office headquarters of Saks Fifth Avenue, to sell my first creation, was a daring move.

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