"embarrassing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It simply threw the embarrassing document down the memory hole.
- Here is the White House once more belatedly coughing up embarrassing documents.
- This is usually treated as a subsidiary controversy in the Whitewater story - was Nussbaum just acting overprotective and stressed, or were embarrassing documents spirited away while he stonewalled?
- The purpose of the hearing was to determine whether the V.A. had disposed of potentially embarrassing documents sought in a lawsuit brought by the veterans group.
- In recent weeks, the White House has given reporters potentially embarrassing documents before the Republican-controlled committees in the House and Senate could do so themselves.
- Q. Weren't you going through your files to get rid of embarrassing documents?
- The memorandum may not be the only internal document embarrassing to the bureau.
- According to anonymous city employees who have been providing embarrassing documents to the newspapers, patronage in rent-controlled apartments was rampant in the later years of Mr. Chirac's mayoralty.
- However, the Government fell when embarrassing documents about the behaviour of industry and the banks during the crisis came to light.
- The background: when President Clinton claimed "executive privilege" to keep 3,000 embarrassing documents from investigators, Congress threatened White House Counsel Jack Quinn with criminal contempt.
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