Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. In fact, Russia's only crude-oil supplier to China, the embattled Yukos, announced only days before Wen's arrival that it would cut off shipments to China. The move seemed designed to embarrass the Kremlin, but it underscored China's vulnerability. Meanwhile, Beijing's planned pipeline is in danger of being thwarted by its regional nemesis, Japan, which has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar project?so long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, which is nearer...
...Liam Ezekiel is probably the best linebacker in I-AA football,” Murphy said. “He’s a highly ranked pro prospect and he’s a guy that can embarrass you real quick if you don’t block...
...better “War on Terror,” because I admittedly don’t have the expertise. But as a reasonable and educated citizen, I can question whether it’s effective for the United States to hold, interrogate, report and embarrass people because of some dubious affiliation with Islamist organizations. That’s certainly not lessening the tension between the United States and the Islamic world; it is, however, keeping us in a constant state of fear. It’s somehow evocative of the days before the US invasion of Iraq when...
...because of budget cuts. Kerry had recently staged a press conference with the teacher of the year in South Carolina, who had also been laid off, and I asked him whether he planned to hold a similar event with Diana. "Oh, no," he said. "I wouldn't want to embarrass...
...Matt says, ‘Why are you trying to embarrass me?...You could’ve just asked me [personally],’” Lurie says. “I think that overly defensiveness is there. It doesn’t look presidential...