Sentence examples for a embarrassment for from inspiring English sources

The Texas commissioner of health, whose public comments had become a embarrassment for Gov. George W. Bush, was placed on an indefinite leave of absence today.

Mr. Pasko has spent 22 months in jail, rejecting both an amnesty and broad hints of a pardon, in a case that has become an international cause for human rights activists and a embarrassment for the Kremlin.

While the economy is far from good, the last six months of BLS numbers have been a embarrassment for the progressives that have been beating the drums for a revival of extended unemployment benefits.

It is an embarrassment for a nation that prides itself as a beacon of human rights.

"Today the police are a shame and an embarrassment for all of Japan".

"The first half was a bit of an embarrassment for everyone‚" he said.

But it is a bit of an embarrassment for Edgbaston.

What an embarrassment for such a rich country.

But it was a close call and an embarrassment for Apple.

A rejection is not an embarrassment for you, but for them.

"It had been a major civic embarrassment and absolutely an embarrassment for me," he says.