| Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks. |
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| Their fashion embarrassments involved medallions and leisure suits, ours were about greasy hair, Kodiaks and lumberjackets. |
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| Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments. |
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| It's true, and there are tons of similarly gossipy tales of women's sexual peccadilloes and the embarrassments of ambition. |
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| The party's automatic genuflection to the public employees' unions is one of its great embarrassments. |
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| Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments. |
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| The current director resigned amid a series of scandalous embarrassments involving children that were supposed to be in Florida's care. |
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| Following several previous embarrassments, the city is expected to nix its deal with the company and resume parking responsibilities itself. |
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| Now, less prone to the pervasive embarrassments of adolescence, her emotional appreciation of the book is simply a memory. |
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| But the family story, with all its problems, embarrassments and dysfunctional members, still has its universal appeal, at home and abroad. |
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| Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit. |
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| The theft follows other recent embarrassments to the department, specifically, allegations of cheating and irregularities in test scoring. |
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| At the end of this marvellously observed biography, it's the drunken rants, financial embarrassments and the sexual misadventures I remember. |
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| Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president. |
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| There are no wrenching epiphanies, just mild embarrassments and a surfeit of confusion. |
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| Over the years I have been sickened by the embarrassments that plagued his tenure and the reprehensible antagonism he suffered by Republican leaders. |
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| After several years of headaches, embarrassments and controversies, the Nunavut department of education can report at least one piece of good news. |
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| One of the embarrassments of string theory has been its inability to tell us why exactly our universe is the way it is. |
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| I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves. |
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| On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments. |
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| Don't allow the planners to be carried away with pretentious, pie-in-the-sky ideas which will become the rubbish-strewn embarrassments of the future. |
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| Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten. |
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| Clean out the underwear drawer and replace any embarrassments with these sexy, tight-fitting jockey shorts from Hugo Boss. |
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