Sentence examples for an embarrassing case from inspiring English sources

It was an embarrassing case of life imitating art.

Whatever judgments are ultimately made, the case has already potentially devalued a fortune's worth of art and entangled respected art-world figures in an embarrassing case.

The move follows an embarrassing case in which a British jihadi was politely asked to surrender his passport 36 days after he had left the country.

In an embarrassing case last week, the Russians detained a young man in Moscow who they said was a C.I.A. officer trying to recruit a Russian official to spy for the United States.

Mr. Sisi had issued a decree in November allowing him to deport non-Egyptians convicted of crimes, in an apparent sign that his government was seeking face-saving ways to end what has been an embarrassing case.

His release ended what had become an embarrassing case for the United States and for Israel, which had requested his extradition after he was detained in the United States.

Government officials said they were satisfied by the outcome, clearly hoping to salvage some good from what had become a highly embarrassing case.

The ruling was the latest chapter in what has become a tortuous and embarrassing case for the park agency, which is facing growing scrutiny and anger upstate.

Describing the home secretary as "a populist hard-liner", Lord Alexander says he is threatening the balance of the constitution.But this row is not just about a few embarrassing cases: it is about a shift in power from the executive to the judiciary, manifested mainly in the growth of judicial review.

An activist decapitated, a journalist killed, a lawyer beaten, a magazine closed and an embarrassing legal case mysteriously settled out of court.

The record company had faced an embarrassing court case against two of its marketing executives after Camden council decided to take it and BMG to court to halt the plague of flyposters littering the London borough.