Mr Mbai said he believed the aim of the attacks was to embarrass Indonesia's government at a time when the country was enjoying a greater degree of stability than it had in the past.

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If, as seems likely, the Global Security Risk Monitor becomes an emerging hot issue as Nell Minow predicts, at a minimum it'll embarrass some major U.S. companies.

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Such an admission could support Ms. Jones's theory of liability and would embarrass him.

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And although it may embarrass his kids to know end, he's also a former clown.

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It remains to be seen whether Khoza's controversial past will come back to embarrass him and the South African 2010 World Cup organisers.

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Even the evening news bulletin of Mr Berlusconi's flagship channel, Canale 5, has run stories that embarrass him.

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"In many nations, in the two weeks before the Games, there's a sense of paranoia, that it's not going to work, we're going to embarrass ourselves on the world stage, it'll be a disaster, " he said.

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There's a fear of that rogue employee who uses the system to embarrass the company.

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You can only record at a lower resolution, but it's still fun to capture a friend in slow-mo without telling them and then embarrass them when you play it back.

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But e-mails from Mr Reyes's computer, seen by The Economist, show that their real aim was to use them to embarrass Mr Uribe politically and to gain international recognition.

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