The alleged investment scheme could prove to be embarrassing to the NCAA because Salinas was prominent in the Houston basketball scene, backing a summer league that attracted the best local basketball players.

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Republicans nonetheless have the means to elevate this issue in ways that could prove highly embarrassing to Mr. Reid and his party.

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While these scandals prove to be embarrassing for those involved and in turn for the country as a whole, they serve as a high-profile reminder of the digital age we live in.

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The tapes could prove legally damaging and personally embarrassing to Cisneros.

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And Stevie and Dimon have plenty of that, no matter how embarrassing the coming months prove to be.

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Palin wanted to direct the money to other projects that would prove less embarrassing.

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The high-level discussions going on in and around the White House are characterized as a debate between lawyers, who are trained to publicly disclose as little as possible, and political operatives, who want to prove their insistence there is nothing incriminating or embarrassing in the notes.

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This new policy may prove embarrassing for the fund should one of the hand-picked local firms get into trouble or cause a loss to the fund.

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