The help which he wanted from the West was simply mercenary forces and not the immense hosts which arrived, to his consternation and embarrassment, after the pope preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont later that same year.

Nevertheless it remains the case that, although spoken American and British English are generally mutually intelligible, there are enough differences to cause occasional misunderstandings or at times embarrassment — for example some words that are quite innocent in one dialect may be considered vulgar in the other.

Early episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow ( William Roache ), who had won a place at university and thus found his background something of an embarrassment.

By 1692, Elihu Yale's repeated flouting of East India Company regulations and growing embarrassment at his illegal profiteering resulted in his being relieved of the post of governor.

As Kenneth Kantzer put it at the time, the name fundamentalist had become " an embarrassment instead of a badge of honor ".

" in which she took a particularly critical approach to the Murrayite theory, explaining its faults, and looking at the history of the hypotheses ' criticism ; within it she remarked that " No British folklorist can remember Dr Margaret Murray without embarrassment.

This bug, discovered in 1994 by professor Thomas Nicely at Lynchburg College, Virginia, became known as the Pentium FDIV bug and caused embarrassment for Intel, which created an exchange program to replace the faulty processors.

Similar to Kameny's regret at his own reaction to the shift in attitudes after the riots, Randy Wicker came to describe his embarrassment as " one of the greatest mistakes of his life ".

Finished, he casts the bones aside, and Estragon jumps at the chance to ask for them, much to Vladimir's embarrassment, but is told that they belong to the carrier.

This event was, in his own words, inspirational: " What really motivated the development of my artistic style was the embarrassment I suffered at Shunkō's hands.

" The Times praised both the libretto and the music of the first act (" Everything sparkles with the flashes of Mr. Gilbert's wit and the graces of Sir Arthur Sullivan's melodiousness ... one is almost at a loss what to select for quotation from an embarrassment of humorous riches.

The embarrassment at Metz ( 1744 ) now largely forgotten, the king was at the peak of his popularity.

To their enormous embarrassment however on 7 March a large English delegation of 246 arrived at The Hague, headed by Oliver St John, to negotiate the conditions under which the Dutch Republic might unite itself with England, sent by Cromwell who had taken the earlier suggestions quite too seriously.

In his embarrassment, he has to pretend to be the general manager, even succeeding in impersonating him to get back at Stubbs.

The move both extended the political uncertainty in the government, as well as dealing Karzai the embarrassment of appearing at the London Conference on Afghanistan with nearly half of his cabinet devoid of leaders.

The dreams in Nemo were aimed at children, but Rarebit Fiend had more adult-oriented subjects — social embarrassment, fear of dying or going insane, and so on — although some of the dreams in both strips were wish-fulfillment fantasies.

The ratification ceremony at Fort Clayton was somewhat of an embarrassment for Torrijos.

A further devastation of the town, as inflicted in 1389, would have been an embarrassment for the new king ; his expensive programme of building at the castle helped protect against this.

When Washington expressed embarrassment at the state of the camp and the troops, Lafayette responded, " I am here to learn, not to teach.

In response to the campaign, Americans began crossing the border, appearing at the nearest recruiting centres " in such numbers that they caused some embarrassment to Canadian authorities.

Sandwich had a personal vendetta against Wilkes that stemmed in large part from embarrassment caused by a prank of Wilkes involving the Earl at one of the Hellfire Club's meetings ; he was delighted at the chance for revenge.

This was a devastating insult to Judah and his family, and was a source of bitterness throughout Judah's life and the topic of his writings years later ; especially since this was not the first time the Abravanel Family was subjected to such embarrassment at the hands of the Catholic Church.

About the battle itself, Canibus commented that " Sometimes people need laughter and entertainment at the expense of others embarrassment but Hip Hop means so much to me I don't care.

In a turn of events that proved to be a minor embarrassment for the reorganized ownership group, Backman was almost immediately fired after management learned, after the fact, of legal troubles and improprieties in Backman's past.

As Trent tries to recover from the embarrassment, Mike smiles as the tables turn.

' Das Judentum ' was an embarrassment to the early Wagnerites and was rarely reprinted in the early 20th century, except as part of his collected works.

The mass-deaths in the Congo Free State became a cause celèbre in the last years of the 19th century and a great embarrassment not only to the King but to Belgium, which had portrayed itself as progressive and attentive to human rights.

The Pyrrhic victory of British arms in India was a quiet embarrassment which played a small but critical role in the nascent scramble for Africa ; in this way, Lytton and his war helped shape the contours of the 20th century in dramatic and unexpected ways.

* Diaochan ( c. 3rd century, Late Eastern Han / Three Kingdoms period ), said to be so luminously lovely that the moon itself would shy away in embarrassment when compared to her face.

For the nineteenth century authors of the Biographie Nationale de Belgique, an anthology of short biographies, Del Rio was something of an embarrassment.

Coming roughly two weeks before the scheduled opening of an East – West summit in Paris, the incident was a great embarrassment to the United States and prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with the Soviet Union.

" The loss was considered something of an embarrassment to English cricket, and prompted a number of letters to be written to Lord Hawke expressing dismay at the result.

He remains unaffected by the details of Eva / Daisy's death, and his own concerns appear to be retaining his social standing, avoiding public embarrassment by the leaking of a scandal, insisting that Eric accounts for and repays the stolen company money and that Sheila should reconsider her relationship with Gerald in order to maintain a promised Croft-Birling merger.

The debacle was said to have caused considerable embarrassment, not just to the company but also to its USM brokers Simon & Coates.

The ballad caused considerable embarrassment for the rail company, who were mocked in music halls throughout Ireland and Britain because of the song.

After inquiries were made into a company with which he had been involved, he signed a letter of resignation rather than cause the Prime Minister any embarrassment.

Moreover, Spicolli's continued drug abuse was seen as an embarrassment to the company.

The U. S. Embassy in Saigon was privately supportive of the aim as Taylor and Khánh had become implacable enemies, but they did not fully back the move as they regarded it as poorly thought out and potentially a political embarrassment due to the need to use an American plane to transport some plotters between Saigon and Washington, and as a result, they promised asylum only for Hương if necessary.

Gary Costello ( Gary Webster ) was a businessman who lost a lot money in a failed business deal, and was forced to move from a far more expensive neighbourhood in Chigwell, Essex to the comparatively modest Stanley Street, much to the shame and embarrassment of his snobbish, socialite wife Chrissy ( Kazia Pelka ).

It is a sitcom about an earthy, one-hit wonder disco queen named Regina Gallant ( MacDonald ) who is recommended for appointment as Governor General by a conniving Prime Minister anticipating she will become a national embarrassment in the job, allowing him to move ahead in eliminating the position, along with the Canadian Monarchy.

She decides to move again to avoid embarrassment as the whole town is talking about Charlotte and Joe.

The US Embassy in Saigon was privately supportive of the aim, but was not ready to fully back the move as they regarded it as poorly thought out and potentially a political embarrassment due to the need to use an American plane to transport some plotters, including Khiem, between Saigon and Washington.

The U. S. Embassy in Saigon was privately supportive of the aim, but not ready to fully back the move as they regarded it as poorly thought out and potentially a political embarrassment due to the need to use an American plane to transport some plotters, including Khiêm, between Saigon and Washington.

" He legitimated slave marriages to protect the wives and children of enlisted men ( in part a response to the Camp Nelson embarrassment ), established refugee camps, fended off efforts by various municipal governments to expel fugitive slaves and free blacks alike and deny them the opportunity to find employment, released slaves from jails and workhouses, ordered that no bondman should be forced into service as substitutes, and issued tens of thousands of travel passes enabling African Americans to move freely within and without the state in search of employment.