Sentence examples for a significant embarrassment from inspiring English sources

In interviews on Friday, intelligence officials described the episode as a significant embarrassment.

A petition accepted that must later be dismissed as "improvidently granted" is a significant embarrassment to the clerk in question.

But the failure of the referendum was a significant embarrassment to the prime minister, who faces a general election in May.

If the European court rules in his favor and calls for a new trial, it would be a significant embarrassment for the Kremlin.

Today's verdict is a significant embarrassment for BBC1's former controller Jay Hunt, whose evidence was a central plank of the corporation's defence against O'Reilly's allegations.

The former speaker added, however, that the status of forces agreement signed between Iraq and the United States in November had been a significant embarrassment for the United States.

But if the hen harrier was our national bird it would be a relentless and significant embarrassment to allow this persecution to continue and there would need to be real action taken to stem its demise".

Leaving something like this unaddressed publicly should be a source of significant embarrassment for the magazine.

During the interview, his father was "very full of the merits of his son, and told the company he was a good scholar, and a poet, and wrote Latin verses", which caused Johnson significant embarrassment.

The departure of each of the past three C.E.O.s (if Apotheker leaves as expected) have been marked by significant embarrassment — and big severance packages.

And since the tool is often used to look at pornographic videos and other sensitive content, that could lead to significant embarrassment and problems.