Ending up on People's worst-dressed list could be as embarrassing for a politician as for a starlet.
This is acutely embarrassing to a party that has always prided itself on its decency, and which aspires to cut northern Italy off from the crime and corruption in the south.
It's rather embarrassing for a government committed to cutting the cost of ministerial travel and evokes memories of John Prescott's infamous decision to let the car take the strain on a short journey between his hotel and the 1999 Labour conference in Bournemouth: except the man known as "Two Jags" did travel more than twice as far - 250 metres.
In one example, Spain wants to allow a plastic surgeon to force Google to delete an embarrassing link to a newspaper article about an allegedly botched surgery (that he was cleared of) from his search results.
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Haney's recollections are his own, and subject to dispute, but this is a rich and compelling rendering of a complicated athlete undone less by embarrassing details than by a self-inflicted, unsustainable myth.
It would produce a report in a year's time that might be a bit embarrassing, but probably, by then, only a bit.
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In a way, it was embarrassing, pretending to be a talking product.
Now that is important and it isn't just politicians who make that difficult, if I may be so bold, it's also your profession because if a politician says perhaps that's wrong we'll do it slightly differently, your attitude is this is a major and embarrassing u-turn, not actually a sensible modification.
It was a slightly embarrassing back-down to what had always promised to be a controversial subject.
But the words came to him easily on August 4 after an embarrassing episode on a recent trip.
After that embarrassing discovery, a renewed effort was made to search for any more databases, and Kearney's turned up.
It's the second embarrassing dismissal of a high ranking officer involved in the U.S. military hierarchy in Africa in five months.
It was embarrassing to make a careless error, but I took responsibility for it and will double-check my work in the future.
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The Wallabies looked in danger of slipping to an embarrassing defeat to a severely understrength Springboks side as they trailed 17-0 in the first half.
Rather embarrassing stuff for a wannabe member of British high society.
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The husband of actress Kate Winslet has successfully blocked the Sun newspaper from publishing a set of "embarrassing" photos of him at a fancy-dress party.
Crashing out at home to first division Blackburn in the prestigious FA Cup was another embarrassing episode in a season which is unraveling at an alarming pace.
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Losing the number six slot is an embarrassing setback at a time when Brazil has been trying to leave behind its reputation as the "country of the future".
One of my most embarrassing moments as a speaker (out of many) came a number of years ago when I was presenting in the UK for the first time.
Meanwhile, Mrs Buffet has lost face by her embarrassing inability at a recent football match in Paris between France and Algeria to silence the whistles that greeted the French national anthem.
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And as coach Carlo Ancelotti insisted the disappointment of their Champions League exit at the hands of Inter Milan may yet aid their attempts to regain the title, Chelsea's embarrassing superiority over a Villa side with sights set on the top four provides the perfect tonic for next Saturday's visit to Old Trafford.
He suffered a series of embarrassing losses, the worst of which was a five-set defeat by George Bastl in the second round of Wimbledon.
So I hope that as I go, you know, my work gets more and more personal, more and more intimate - not in a way that's embarrassing to anyone or feels like a journal entry but...
Until the middle of last week, this was merely a bit embarrassing for Mr Blair.
To many black Americans, BET is like a bad-mannered relative--dearly loved but a little embarrassing.
The year 2011 has started off with a few embarrassing technical glitches for the likes of Apple and Microsoft.
Here, the judgment was treated as little more than a faintly embarrassing mishap.
He raced forward and found Drogba, who swept past Gael Clichy with embarrassing ease before powering a shot beyond Manuel Almunia.
That was embarrassing and unfortunately was a sign of things to come.
Sabathia said his time on the disabled list felt "a little embarrassing" because he prides himself on making all of his starts.
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