What was once an embarrassment of riches is now, in many ways, just an embarrassment.
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But while Wales do not have strength in depth at the back, England do boast an embarrassment of defensive riches.
In the Roman view, Cleopatra quite literally possessed an embarrassment of riches.
This time around the Democratic Party has an embarrassment of its own: the attorney-general was forced to resign after a sex scandal.
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On the backbenches, the Conservatives have an embarrassment of new intake riches.
Often times both the casual sports fan and non-sports loving observers get the impression that there is an embarrassment of riches in college athletics.
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Although the Cameroon striker has been the club's leading scorer for the past two seasons, Rijkaard still has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal in attack.
There were all those oil producers with an embarrassment of profits and a desperate need to look as if all they cared about was finding alternative energy sources.
An embarrassment of rich choices has become just plain embarrassing.
Those three stars are joined in the starting lineup by Gasol and Metta World Peace in what promises to be an embarrassment of talent that few teams can only hope to compete with.
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In what was in some ways an embarrassment of riches, Knight was reported to have received more than 90 offers of assistance and its Board of Directors turned down what might have been an even more attractive last minute offer from Citadel LLC.
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An embarrassment of filing riches.
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The decision is something of an embarrassment to Goldman, since it could damage ties to some of its most lucrative clients, left empty-handed just as they were deciding whether to invest in Facebook, the Wall Street Journal cites clients as saying.
The first is to dismiss pastoralism as a backward pursuit, an embarrassment to notions of modernisation rather than a proven response to a harsh environment.
Naturally, the video shot around trading floors across the world making Kiely a mini-celebrity on YouTube and something of an embarrassment for Macquarie Bank, which is said to have sent him home pending an investigation, supposedly of improper use of company technology.
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He said his footage of this would have proved an "embarrassment" for police, and believed their payout was an admission of wrongdoing.
But the old page had become enough of an embarrassment to require intervention.
This now looks like an embarrassment running dangerously out of control and threatening to turn into a genuine crisis.
"The fact that the company has waived the balance, it seems to me, is an indication of their embarrassment, " says Levin.
But industry analysts say the recent problems pose more of an embarrassment to Boeing rather than a serious concern about safety.
In fact, south of the border the dish is something of an embarrassment: a 1950s epicurean guide to Central America defined it as "a detestable food passing itself off as Mexican, sold in the US from Texas to New York".
Mr Fischer's departure is an embarrassment, since early blueprints of the new structure had him in a pivotal role as chief risk officer, and hence the senior contact with bank supervisors in Bonn.
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With vast quantities of chutzpah and an embarrassment threshold much higher than that zipwire, Boris Johnson can command the Olympic stage.
New Rutgers basketball coach Eddie Jordan is not a graduate of the university as the school had claimed, another embarrassment for an athletic program still smarting from the firing of previous coach Mike Rice.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, has a scheme to transfer the authority to raise the debt ceiling to the president, which would at least spare Republicans the embarrassment of voting for an increase, even if it does not cut the deficit at all.
The author of Federalist No. 65 knew very well the distinction between a private scandal and the profound embarrassment arising out of its publication--and the violation of a public duty in an attempt to avoid that embarrassment.
It would, in short, be an embarrassment as well as an impediment to ratification of the New START Treaty.
Mr Mori has become that most unacceptable of things in Japan: an embarrassment.
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