Corruption investigations into Moscow city's crony-ridden and murky finances may embarrass Mr Luzhkov's friends in the months ahead, but he has plenty of ammunition of his own.
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.
Well-prepared assailants penetrated central Kabul and other provincial capitals in spectacular attacks designed to capture the world's attention and embarrass NATO and the Afghan government.
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.
This is a culture of fear, a culture of oppression - of information that's either going to embarrass a civil servant or embarrass a minister.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy used words from George W Bush during his State of the Union address to embarrass Mr Blair over Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction.
The opposition's best hope is to embarrass his administration enough to give them hope for victory in the next election, which might not be until 2000.
Such an admission could support Ms. Jones's theory of liability and would embarrass him.
But the report gives damning support to the claims of critics that the paramilitaries operate as an unofficial extra division of Colombia's army, and will thus embarrass the government.
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And although it may embarrass his kids to know end, he's also a former clown.
It remains to be seen whether Khoza's controversial past will come back to embarrass him and the South African 2010 World Cup organisers.
They crashed the CIA's home site, and sought to embarrass those whose job it is to investigate cybercrime in the UK, SOCA, by forcing their website offline.
It will be an uphill struggle to achieve an election that does not disgrace even Cambodia's modest notions of democracy or severely embarrass the foreign governments that have pinned so many hopes on its success by helping to organise and pay for it.
Miss Brown had been asked at the end of her job interview if there were any views she held, or if there was anything in her past that could embarrass her or the youth PCC post, and the teenager's answer had been "no", Ms Barnes added.
Even the evening news bulletin of Mr Berlusconi's flagship channel, Canale 5, has run stories that embarrass him.
The U.S. embassy closely guarded the secret, lest premature publicity embarrass the Chinese and cause them to change their minds.
"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.
There's a fear of that rogue employee who uses the system to embarrass the company.
The aim could have been to embarrass the provincial officials where the unrest began, or to burnish the leadership's credentials, or both.
The left already looks as if it may embarrass him at the party conference in Blackpool, by winning seats on the party's National Executive Committee, at the expense of a slate of Blairites.
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.
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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